Windows 7

bababardwan
November 02, 2009, 11:12 AM posted in General Discussion

I'm thinking of upgrading from Vista to Windows 7 and was wondering if any Poddies have given this a go yet and how they found it.I use perakun popup translator in Firefox and google pinyin input,so I'm wondering how these things go,how pinyin input goes...basically how it handles all things related to Chinese and using this site.Any thoughts or experiences?

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miantiao
November 02, 2009, 04:44 PM

hey barbs,

i had windows 7 for a few days, before my puter cracked a wobbly and died.

had no problems with google pinyin. i'm not sure of any other applications or plug ins or outs, or perakuns. had no probs with it using this site or nciku.

its a nicer looking than vista ;) 

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jckeith
November 08, 2009, 03:17 AM

不用谢 :)

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bababardwan
November 02, 2009, 09:06 PM

miantiao,jckeith,

Thanks heaps guys.I'm keen to take the plunge then.

miantiao,

That's no good about your 'puter mate.I assume it had nothing to do with windows 7 or you would have said.Anyhow,good to see you're back on board.What are you using now then? You must have access to another 'puter but not with windows 7 I take it.

jckeith,

Thanks for the mandarin popup recommendation.Perakun certainly has it's weaknesses.I have tried another popup or two previously but they had their detractors as well.One was a google based one I think and I think was a better translator but it always slowed down the bootup process.Windows 7 is said to run faster and smoother so maybe it won't have that problem in 7.Perakuns on off button works better than others I'd tried too.On the other hand it certainly has big gaps in it's translation.Here I go offsite to mdbg,but yeah,it'd be nice to not have to do that.I'll give Mandarin Popup a shot.Thanks mate :)

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miantiao
November 03, 2009, 04:50 AM

hey barbs,

我前几天用女友带回家的顾客的笔记本。系统是windows7。可惜她今天得拿回去,所以我目前在网吧上网。你猜对了,无论什么样的网吧,都一定不会安装windows7的系统。女友说在中国百分之久十以上的电脑和笔记本都安装了盗版的windows系统。

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bababardwan
November 03, 2009, 06:30 AM

miantiao,

嘿,我想知道了如果这是你了前面.看看在你的左肩朋友.我是排在你身后的家伙也ChinesePod,看在同时看赛马。我很高兴认识你,最后。

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jckeith
November 02, 2009, 04:49 PM

I recently switched to Windows 7. It has the same pinyin input system as XP and Vista and also has a newer system you can use that I like better. I've never tried Google Pinyin, but I'm sure it works fine. Firefox works like a charm too. By the way, I'd recommend you switch to Mandarin Popup over Perakun. I like it a lot better.

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bababardwan
November 03, 2009, 07:19 AM

I'm not surprised mate.It wasn't my best effort in Chinese.All in a bit of a rush...came out as 瞎说。I was trying to say:

hey,I was wondering if that was you up ahead.Look over your left shoulder mate.I'm the guy in the row behind you also on CPod at the same time as watching the races.I'm very glad to meet you at last.

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miantiao
November 05, 2009, 05:58 AM

wtf! haha, was that you mate? so you're a chinese australian then? with the ability to fly over continental boundaries in a single leap?

and why didn't you 打个招呼 and let me know you had the race on live?

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bababardwan
November 08, 2009, 01:17 AM

好的,我试试一下。哇,我可以写汉字用windows7的时候。

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bababardwan
November 08, 2009, 01:41 AM

jckeith,

Hey thanks mate for the mandarin popup recommendation.Only just installed it but my first impression is that it is better.The toggle to turn it on and off works like a treat [some other popups it didn't make it easy at all and in perakun it could be a bit temperamental] and the definitions are looking good so far.The font is large and easier to see the characters 。多谢 :)

Oh,and to both jckeith and miantiao,thanks heaps for giving me the confidence to take the plunge with windows 7.All the Chinese stuff is working fine.

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miantiao
November 03, 2009, 06:59 AM

barbs,

不好意思,我不明白.