Window 7 or Windows XP?

I have a new IMAC with and Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4 GB of memory. I have the latest Parallels software installed. Now I'm in a quandry. Do I get the new Windows 7 or the older but more proven Windows XP? I'm not a heavy Windows user, it is mostly for some on-line web site & e-mail work. I know Parallels works with both operating systems, but Windows 7 is so new and uses quite a bit more memory. My friends are divided on the issue. Any advice or help would be appreciated! (I'm new to this web site and I posted this in a different thread that might not have been the right one for which I appologize.) Thanks so much for helping a newbie!

 

Dear Artsguy,

I can only speak from personal experiences from within my own company where we have had a mixture of Xp, Vista and now Windows 7.

I'm currently moving all my users to Windows 7, certainly the Vista ones are the most urgent as they have suffered from all kinds of issues as well as performance. With respect to Xp as good as it is or was. I'm also now moving away from. So PC's or laptops that ran XP seem to be performaing very well on Windows 7, in fact boot up and shutdown seems quicker to me on Windows 7. All my users so far seem very happy with the move to Windows 7 and they think it is generally faster.

Personally I think Xp has had its day it is time to move onto Windows 7. On my MAC and other MACS we have Windows 7 performs very well, I'm not noticing any memory or CPU issues as yet.

As said this is just my personal point of view and I dare say others may not necessary agree.

Good luck
Regards
kevin

 

My experiences...

Hi,

I've got PD5 on my new iMac and have installed Win 7. The only problem I have encountered is one of Windows taking back window focus every 45 seconds or so. (See this thread: http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=97606).

It's annoying as all get out, but other than that I've had no problems with Win 7; it starts quickly and runs fairly fast.

 

Hello there..

I was a Ubuntu Linux Fan, untill Windows 7 arrived! i've used all the operating systems, but the best and the fastest was Ubuntu 8.10. Windows 7 is awesome! it is faster then Vista, imagine a beta version is almost bugless [very less bugs] what would be the retail version be like? Hey keep coming with such polls...! thanks!

will mostly prefer windows XP because i am using this last 2 years and I have absolutely no problem with it, but i will try using Windows 7,let me have look at each one of compitability.

Windows XP was good specially after the service pack 3 was out, but its old now... Its time for Windows 7. I have been using Windows 7 RC since its release as a standalone OS in my computer without a single problem...

Windows XP is a mobile office. Be comfortable. Don't look for other versions.

i voted Windows XP. Its simply microsofts best operating system.

Windows 7 is ok, but i still much prefer XP.

I think Windows 7 and Mac OS X are better than all of the following because they are faster, secure and both have great designs.



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Windows 7 runs just fine on PD 5, including all the fun optics (transparent window borders etc). It's also quite fast. If you're new to Windows and come from the Mac I'd recommend Windows 7, you'll feel quite at home with it - MS copied so many of the Mac's user interface ideas that it's become really quite a pleasure to use.