[AccessD] Windows 8

 It's the memory that's the kicker.  Six years ago, the 2 and 3 GB machines
you are describing would have been considered higher end machines; not the
typical entry level machines that most businesses put in place.

 In fact if you remember when Vista came out, the big stink was that
Microsoft said flat out "buy new hardware" if you wanted to use all the
features (it was more then memory, but memory was a good part of it).  Many
at that time asked if Vista was even worth the upgrade price considering you
could not use most of the new features if you didn't get new hardware.

 Win 7 is a far better OS then Vista and is what Vista should have been, but
it's still something I would not consider running on anything less then 2GB.

 I have clients that have fallen behind on five year replacement cycles and
have systems running from .5 GB to 1.5GB.   Even with XP, that's a stretch.
And yes I know memory is cheap, but in many cases the MB is maxed out and
upgrading is not possible.  Replacing the station as a whole is the best
approach, but they've held off.

 Thankfully most of them are caught up now, but I still have a few
stragglers.

Jim.
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Shamil
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 06:50 PM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Windows 8

Hi Gustav --

Yes, Windows 7 Ultimate runs very well here on my DELL Inspiron 9400 laptop
Dual Core 2GHz Intel with 3GB RAM - 5+ years old device...

And this old laptop also runs rather well Windows Phone 7 emulator  while
debugging/running WP7 project under VS2010 SP1 - a bit slow start-up (and
XNA development isn't available AFAIS) but still well IMO to start learning
WP7 development...

Thank you.

-- Shamil

03 декабря 2011, 01:45 от "Gustav Brock" <Gustav at cactus.dk>:
> Hi Jim
> 
> Of course, most old hardware won't do.
> 
> But I just installed Windows 7 Pro on my 6 years old HP 17" Pavilion
zd8000 (zd8237) laptop (P4, 3 GHz, 2 GB ram, 90 GB disk, ATI Radeon X600
with DirectX 9) and it runs of course not fast but smoothly.
> 
> It took a little to locate the legacy ATI video drivers for Vista, though.
> 
> /gustav
> 
> >>> jimdettman at verizon.net 01-12-2011 22:11 >>>
> 
>  Try running Win 7 on older hardware and you won't like it.
> 
> Jim.
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