4 Reasons Why You Should Buy Windows 7

Windows 7 is Microsoft's latest operating system and chances are that you will have already downloaded it when it was available as a release candidate or in its Beta version. All things considered, Windows 7 is a vast improvement over Windows Vista and Windows XP on a number of aspects, making it a compelling buy.

(1) Performance

Believe it or not, Windows 7 should perform better than Windows Vista across a range of computers. Tests carried out by technology website Gizmodo show that although Vista and Windows 7 are neck to neck in benchmarks, Windows 7 still "feels" snappier and more responsive, something that we concur.

In addition, Windows 7 has run on a number of "old" PCs including an ancient Pentium III computer running at 500MHz with 256MB memory that was launched in 1998, an excellent performance given that the minimum requirements are 1GHz and at least 1GB RAM.

We ran Windows 7 on an old Pentium IV clocked at 1.5GHz with 512MB and a dedicated video card (albeit a vetust one) and found it to be responsive beyond reproach. Arguably, adding other resource hogging applications like Chrome might choke the system.

(2) Graphics

Windows 7 will come with DirectX 11 as standard. This means that it will be ready, out of the box to handle the latest graphics from the dozens of hit game titles that will appear on the market before Christmas.

Obviously, you will need a fully compliant graphics card, like the AMD Radeon 5x00 series to get the best out of the technology. Games website Firingsquad released some pictures of a future game called STALKER Call of Pripyat in DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 as a comparison and the latter looks better.