My New Desktop Background On The iMac Running Window 7 – That's Right, It's Awesome
Posted by Artem Russakovskii on February 20th, 2010 in Awesomeness, My Favorites
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I got a new development machine at work – a 24" iMac. Since I am not an OSX fan at all, I immediately installed Windows 7 x64 on it and initiated a search for a fitting background image.
And then I found it:
Right click here and Save As to download the 1920×1200 version
And that's how you set up your iMac people.
Credit goes to Jonzy from DeviantArt.
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Awesome! Thanks for commenting on my article on desktop backgrounds. I notice that this one is mostly light gray, just as I suggested in my article.
Thanks again,
Nathan
I'm an OSX fan.
Windows 7 looks like it might be an improvement, but I still want to avoid Windows as much as possible until they do a major rewrite of the whole OS. No more Registry for starters.
Why is it that Microsoft will try to imitate Apple's UIs, but they won't learn from what they do under the hood? The whole concept of applications being self-contained packages, for example, is something MS really needs to look into.
Just out of curiosity, are you dual-booting your iMac with OS X, or have you entirely replaced it with Win7?
Win7 runs in Bootcamp, so it's dual booted but I never use OSX. If there was any other way than Bootcamp to do this, I'd just vote for that but that's the way IT set me up.
As far as the Windows registry, I really don't think it's possible to turn this around anymore – most programs currently use the registry and for backwards compatibility, MS would have to keep it. The only thing, perhaps, that would help transition out of it, is if they made some sort of an software adapter that would act as the registry but then write results into its own local file. Don't think they think anything is wrong with the registry though.
That looks really nice! Thankfully with the news that valve is bringing steam to osx there is now virtually no need for me to run windows via bootcamp and the games i love to play (hl2 and l4d2) will be playable natively in osx, yay
Nice and really cool, just downloaded for my screen.