Windows XP or Windows 7 Starter on a netbook?
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From: walterbyrd on 31 Jan 2010 22:28 Unless I'm missing something (and I sure could be), XP seems vastly superior for a typical netbook. - Drivers: XP is seems to be much better, for example my HP 3015 multi- function printer will not fully work with win7. I don't know if I would trust older apps with win7 either. - System requirements: Why worry about running more than 3 apps on win7 starter? It seems like most win7 netbooks will be straining to run even run one. XP requires 64mb or RAM, with 128mb recommended, win7 requires a minimum of 1GB of RAM. XP requires a 233mhz processor, win7 requires a minimum of 1ghz. I have also read that Win7 burns up batteries faster. - Support: Msft has promised to provide support for XP until August 2014 - That's about 4.5 years from this writing. BTW: I still use win2k, I think it's the best OS msft ever developed. But msft dropped support for win2k many years ago. - Win7 does not seem to provide any "must have" features. Please correct me if I am wrong about any of that.
From: BillW50 on 1 Feb 2010 15:01 In news:aa69aef7-514d-47c4-b1cf-5e7ad56bd181(a)h9g2000prn.googlegroups.com, walterbyrd typed on Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:28:57 -0800 (PST): > Unless I'm missing something (and I sure could be), XP seems vastly > superior for a typical netbook. > > - Drivers: XP is seems to be much better, for example my HP 3015 > multi- function printer will not fully work with win7. I don't know > if I would trust older apps with win7 either. > > - System requirements: Why worry about running more than 3 apps on > win7 starter? It seems like most win7 netbooks will be straining to > run even run one. XP requires 64mb or RAM, with 128mb recommended, > win7 requires a minimum of 1GB of RAM. XP requires a 233mhz processor, > win7 requires a minimum of 1ghz. I have also read that Win7 burns up > batteries faster. > > - Support: Msft has promised to provide support for XP until August > 2014 - That's about 4.5 years from this writing. BTW: I still use > win2k, I think it's the best OS msft ever developed. But msft dropped > support for win2k many years ago. > > - Win7 does not seem to provide any "must have" features. > > Please correct me if I am wrong about any of that. Yeap, I agree. I agree so much that I now have 7 XP machines. That should keep me going for many years to come, eh? I also have Windows 7 on one netbook and on one laptop. And I am going to remove Windows 7 on those two very soon. And I have two other Windows 7 Upgrade up on the shelf unopened. What a waste of money that was. <sigh> -- Bill Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Windows XP SP2
From: Barry Watzman on 1 Feb 2010 22:04 I think it's a toss, and ultimately depends on personal preferences. BTW, I believe that the 3-app limitation was removed from the final version and isn't in the released product. And, also, while the original XP required only 64MB of RAM with 128MB recommended, no way that will work for SP2 or SP3. As a practical matter, you need 512MB (but, granted, that's still half of what you need for an equivalent Win7 system). walterbyrd wrote: > Unless I'm missing something (and I sure could be), XP seems vastly > superior for a typical netbook. > > - Drivers: XP is seems to be much better, for example my HP 3015 multi- > function printer will not fully work with win7. I don't know if I > would trust older apps with win7 either. > > - System requirements: Why worry about running more than 3 apps on > win7 starter? It seems like most win7 netbooks will be straining to > run even run one. XP requires 64mb or RAM, with 128mb recommended, > win7 requires a minimum of 1GB of RAM. XP requires a 233mhz processor, > win7 requires a minimum of 1ghz. I have also read that Win7 burns up > batteries faster. > > - Support: Msft has promised to provide support for XP until August > 2014 - That's about 4.5 years from this writing. BTW: I still use > win2k, I think it's the best OS msft ever developed. But msft dropped > support for win2k many years ago. > > - Win7 does not seem to provide any "must have" features. > > Please correct me if I am wrong about any of that.
From: the wharf rat on 5 Feb 2010 14:54 In article <4b6c7415$0$275$14726298(a)news.sunsite.dk>, shofar <shofar(a)feasts.net> wrote: > > For those of us who like the old ways - it might be time to buy or >preferably build a few systems that will run the old operating systems >with the old hardware - while it is still available. Run Linux. > The main problems with cloud computing are absolutely no privacy, >limited software choices and a forced move to smaller, portable >hardware. Not to mention trusting your service provider(s) to be there when you need them. "Oh, the proposal? Ummm welll Microsoft Cloud is sort of down right now..."
From: BillW50 on 7 Feb 2010 09:06
the wharf rat wrote: > In article <4b6c7415$0$275$14726298(a)news.sunsite.dk>, > shofar <shofar(a)feasts.net> wrote: >> For those of us who like the old ways - it might be time to buy or >> preferably build a few systems that will run the old operating systems >> with the old hardware - while it is still available. > > Run Linux. Probably a bad idea if you like playing multimedia files. Or use stream recorders, PC games, and zillions of Windows only applications. Although Wine is said to help somewhat. It is pretty sad, that while I am using Linux on this machine. I have to have another machine running Windows just to fill in the parts that Linux just can't do for me. For example, right now Windows is capturing the stream of a radio program and running my GlucoseOne database. I am also playing around with Sims (PC game - most popular game of all time with over 100 million sold). Plus there are many tasks that Linux just can't do for me. The rule of thumb for decades has been, find the applications you want to run and then find the OS that will run them. NOT the other way around. As that would be the fool hearted way. -- Bill Asus EEE PC 702G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix |