Video Playback -- NetBooks -- Win7

[Mango1970]

I bought a new Acer Netbook. I tried playing various movies I have ripped to my regular desktop, some regular ISO's, some HD. Also watching full screen Hulu. Now the Netbook came with Windows Vista premium. It comes with an upgrade to Win 7.

I tried playing some of my movies -- some work some are just too choppy for the CPU/onboard video. I decided to try Win 7 on the Netbook and once installed and using Chrome I can watch ANY Hulu full screen show... any ISO and all my AVI, MKV. For the really slow and not too tech savvy folks like me... can anyone explain to me why using Win 7 I can actually watch these (I am piping them out using either VGA or HDMI to a big screen)... whereas with the Vista setup I could not.

Does Win 7 come with something I forgot to install? Any reason for this? Anyhow I am certainly happy. I ready to order 2 full versions of Win 7 for my home and work computer... but this is just icing on the cake

 

[ecom]

My only guess is that Win7 has better or more efficient drivers or underlying code that better utilizes the given hardware; Win7 is less resource intensive compared to Vista; or a combination of both.

It's good to know that with Win7 you have this capability though. With XP on a single core Atom desktop, I was able to play some 720 videos but 1080 was completely out of the question.

 

[yh125d]

Win7 has better support for automatic hardware acceleration of video, and its GUI is less demanding to run than vistas. What specific netbook did you get?