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hey guys jon rettinger here for those you that follow my channel you know that I'm exclusively am at guy it's just my operating system of choice I've got an imac for my primary computing and a macbook for my mobile computing well for the past 10 days i've been using Windows 7 exclusively and clandestinely on my macbook and I want to give you my impressions of a mac guy gone back to Windows even for a short period of time so much like the microsoft store was heavily influenced by the apple store it appears that windows seven was also influenced by mac OS 10 so I've given a very thorough overview of what windows 7 how to install it on a macbook LP is done a great job and give me demonstrations of windows seven this is going to be me just talking about it i'll put a link in the sidebar to all the windows 7 related videos so you can see how to install it or how to how it works and just overall nuances but i will say that I've been very impressed with windows 7 up that it to be stable reliable and surprisingly a very good looking operating system I think the new task bar across the bottom that sort of has a doc like feel to it is very useful one thing that I really do like about it is similar to I guess what you would call max expose like feature if you take your amounts me drag it over one guy cons across the bottom so you've got Firefox open in two or three windows there put your finger on the Firefox for the mouse and the Firefox icon you get all the windows for a line up there and makes it nice and easy to sort of see what you have open and a very elegant refined manner which is something I'm not used to saying for windows the doc worked very well as far as pinning and unpinning items to it I guess she called the task manager or a taskbar as the windows folks are calling it overall the operation some has just been really useful if found to be very stable when some of the features that I really like about it are the arrow features so the arrow shake for example if you've got a lot of windows open all you do is take your mouse hold on to one of them shake it back and forth and I'll sort of minimize all the rest of the windows except for the one that you were shaking sort of clean up your desktop when the other arrow features i found very useful the feature called here oh snap so if you take a window and you drag it off to the right-hand side it'll actually snap in place take up about half of your monitor space you can take another window pull it to the other side of the monitor and I'll snap in place as well the great way to have two windows sort of showing is one was once without having to manually resize it you can also use a feature to take a window drag it up to the top and windows 7 will make it fullscreen the arrow glass is quite nice as well something that sort of adds a nice level of elegance the operating system some of the figures that i'm mentioning like the sort of expose light feature in the taskbar things you're only going to find on windows 7 home premium and higher nothing you're going to find on a netbook or Windows 7 starter edition just as a little bit of mourning but the rest of the arrow features you will find on the starter edition except for the glass so overall have actually been really happy with windows 7 and I could see myself even using windows 7 on a daily basis really not going place my imac for my computing and video editing but on the go maybe one of those sort of lightweight ultra low voltage processing 11 inch laptops could be a great way to sort of have a little more power than a netbook but not as much as a full computer when you're on the go I found windows 7 really just be a very useful operating system its first time that I've had been considered using windows on a daily basis since well since I switched to Mac about three years ago so that was you know in the XP days right before Vista was launched I used vista as well I found it to be clunky awkward unreliable and very crash prone I tried quite hard to crash windows 7 and really to no avail I'm hoping programs like close things I went through a full-on do those features are trying to get a blue screen and get into crash and I couldn't it works very well and as much as I went into it not liking windows and figuring that I was wasn't gonna enjoy the experience I cannot have been actually really enjoying it so I think that's a testament to Microsoft their design team and what they did with windows so one asked you guys have you tried windows seven what do you think of it do you think it's an improvement over Vista think it's proven over OS 10 if your Mac user will make you even consider using Windows 7 yeah there's been a lot of a lot of trash shop use because you like math doesn't mean you have to hate PC because you like a PC does mean you have to hate mac you know there can be a little bit of overlap there some great periods to know what you guys think leave a text or video response for exclusive content guys 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