Updates: Short Win7 review + LCD Bracket fix

Hey guys, sorry for not updating my blog for weeks, but I am back! Today I wanna rant some bad stuff about a local computer shop that helps me fix the LCD bracket that broken 1 week ago.

Let’s start with the LCD bracket first.

It all started on a beautiful Sunday morning, when I was busying spamming in /k/(Kopitiam), I adjusted my screen to prevent the sun glare, I tell you the morning glare is unbearable! So when I slightly pushed the cover, there’s a very disturbing sound, and yes, it’s a CRACK sound. I was like “SSSHHII–!!!” Then I try to move the cover from front to back, it’s now very flimsy and very easy to fall to the 180° point. I was so shocked then I tell my mother about it.

Now for the fixing part. Today my mum sent my laptop to fix the LCD bracket. I’ve waited 1 week for the bracket to arrive from KL to here. And I tell you, the bracket and installation fees are very very freaking expensive. At first the guy told me that the bracket itself is RM100 and the installation is another RM100. Then there was this awkward silence… My face expression changed. My mum was like making that annoying face again.

So the days comes and finally I go the the shop and toke back my computer, and guess what, they gave me back the broken bracket! Some pictures first!

Now there’s the broken LCD bracket. After I get back home, things get sour. I turned on my computer, realized that they’ve turned on my computer! How can they do that? You know how I know that they’ve turned on my computer? I pushed the power button and the “Resuming Windows” thingy appeared. I was like “phew phew phew”, luckily I backed up all my freaking files and hidden some files. Hopefully they didn’t manage to see the hidden files. I was thinking, that shop is a famous local computer shop, why they do  not have a privacy policy? If my files are not backed up and hidden, my privacy will be invaded! Damn! I swear to god I will NOT go back to that shop unless my computer have some serious problem again. (NOTE: The shop is the one and only Acer Service Center in SDK =.=”)

Now, moving on, I give you my short review of Windows 7! Yes! Windows 7! Who never heard of it?!

I am currently using it as my permanent OS. I tested the build 7137 on another partition sometime ago and I found it quite interesting. For now I’m using the Win7 Build 7600 RTM. There’s pros and cons about this brand new OS that is gonna released my Microsoft on the end of October.

So here’s some pictures

As you can see there’s a new taskbar that is quite different from Vista’s. Nothing special about my desktop..
From my point of view, Win7 is definately faster than Vista. You really can feel it. I upgraded from Vista to Win7. It took me 45 minutes and I must say that’s quite fast. I don’t know because I’m upgrading inside my computer but not by a DVD.

Some more pictures.
The new window. Bigger “minimize, resize and close window” button. Easier to click then Vista’s.

I apologize for the large image.

Some say that Win7 uses less resources than Vista. But…

908MB used of RAM although it’s idle…
As a conclusion, Vista>XP, Vista>Win7, but, still… Win7>XP.
That’s just my opinion, don’t flame! I can’t wait for the official release.

My hands are burning now and I need to get a bath, it’s really hot here. It’s just started to rain.
So, I will try to update as much as possible in the future.
All the best!~
Fabian 07/09/09

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