Gary,
So you are accepting OS Bloat? Like because you can now buy a 1TB hard
drive?
Sorry. I'm still in Soren's camp ATM.
I don't expect M$ to be perfect and/or crisp with their OS. I have
watched M$ OS since WFWG3.1 (actually MS-DOS v3.1)......... :)
M$ has done a poor job of bloat redux to my view. It seems that each
time technology gives us a bigger storage medium, M$ bloats to use as
much as it can; under the guise that, "Well, our users have moved to
this new/larger "footprint." Sadly, NOT all of "us".
Happy that you have really big HD's. I do not.
Interesting perspective BTW. Plan to sleep on this one!
Best,
Duncan
On 09/06/2010 18:36, Gary Jackson wrote:
Given that you can buy a 1tb drive for $75.00, I guess I am not too
concerned at how large the OS is. That is the downside for more
"features" I guess.
At 05:14 PM 9/6/2010, It was written by Soren that this shall come to pass:
OK, so far my impressions are that the Win7 installation footprint
should be in the area of "only" around 14 GB.
I need to do some partition resizing and so, including deletion of
several propreritary HP progs, and cleaning up the registry.
Hopefully, this will end satisfactory. In a few days I'll know.
Yes, I know I'm acting paranoid :), but I usually deal with XP
installations (dumped Vista completely at first sight) where a fresh
install can fit on a single CD, using highest compression in Ghost.
With drivers and different progs installed, only 2 CDs, or at worst, a
single DVD.
Come on... 14 GBs for an O/S alone - M$ has some serious issues here.
I used to think that e.g. Ubuntu is a piece of bloatware, but this one
for sure gets the prize.
What happened to OS/2, BTW? I've always wondered why any O/S needs to
be more than 64MB's which is more than sufficient with proper coding,
even seen with todays' standards.
/s
