Comments on: Windows 7: Efficiency and Performance

By: mark

mark — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:26:58 +0000

Great article, I’m looking forward to 7 for a number of reasons, if it will actually have a decent sleep mode that would be great.
Any word when we might see Core i7 or i5 notebooks anytime?

By: FH

FH — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:24:37 +0000

Good report. Windows is a better deal on laptops/netbooks than Linux because of this, and laptops are the new majority market.

Give Apple credit, though, for having a good S3-style sleep for years, while Windows machines were hanging every time you closed the lid. There’s lot’s of history behind this New Religion.

And be ready for side effects. Do mb vendors realize they now need accurate HW clocks? Perhaps your mb coin cell won’t last long, now? Who knows?

By: Chris Johnson

Chris Johnson — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:16:31 +0000

Very cool stuff. Computers are so beastly hot nowadays to achieve higher and higher levels of performance. But many of us don’t need all that power all of the time. The same has been true of cars for many years. Timer coalescing actually reminds me of that Chrysler innovation where when you’re cruising on the highway the engine will shut off half the cylinders to save gas.

By: Markeyse

Markeyse — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:51:19 +0000

I can’t wait for Windows 7! And with the new Intel i5 platform right around the corner, will have a lot of possibilities. I can use a i7 chip for my professional workstation, and the i5 as a home computer.

By: Loyd Case

Loyd Case — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:24:18 +0000

Intel is coming out with a new socket, but the old socket will be around, too. See my earlier post on Socket 1366 and 1156:

http://www.improbableinsights.com/2009/08/19/the-future-of-socket-1366/

By: Alejandro Hernandez

Alejandro Hernandez — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:57:44 +0000

Oh nice, to see the new scheduler learning how to know the diference between virtual and phisical cores. Less power is ok too. But will that new CPU architecture require a new socket? cus Im still on 775 and Im planing to go i7 next holydays, should I wait?, I dont wanna get stuck on an expensive great mobo but with the wrong socket (no scalability) like happend to me on 478 times.