A year ago, I bought a new ASUS ZenBook (UX31E-DH72) and it has been a great laptop. For the last 6 months, my 5 year old desktop PC has been feeling slow, especially compared to my new laptop. The old PC is a dual display running WinXP with quad-core and 4GB of RAM. It was extremely fast when I first received it. Since, both LCD displays are older than 7 years, I thought it best to replace everything in one shot and upgrade to Windows 7 Pro 64-bit too.
So, ordered a new desktop PC with Intel Core i7-3770K, 16GB RAM, 2 SSD, Asus GTX 560Ti and 2 Samsung 24″ LED (S24A450UW) running Winows 7 Pro 64-bit from Mega Computers.
I pickup the new beast last Friday and spent the weekend copying hundreds of gigabytes of data to the new PC then installed countless programs – it was mind-numbing.
So far, everything is working well. Although, I miss “Quick Launch” from WinXP. Yes, I added it via the backdoor but I don’t like it on the far right. So far, all of the applications that I use on a daily basis work (Yeahhh!). The only odd thing is Eudora (email client) seems to flicker (or rebuild the display) when I switch between folder tabs in Eudora. I never saw this under WinXP. Eudora is a 32-bit application and it could be using an older Windows API call that is being emulating under Win7 64-bit. I might think about switching to Thunderbird.
All in all, the new PC is working very well.
Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.
