I'll second that.
I've got an old Dell Precision workstation with an early Pentium Core 2 CPU. Win XP had become just about unusable on it. I suspect that Microsoft updates purposely slow their OS's down a little with every installed patch to force people to buy new computers (with a new version of Windows pre-installed, of course).
Anyway, I had an extra copy of Win 7 Professional and decided to give it a try on this rather dated box. I was pleasantly surprised with how much better it runs now. Win 7 breathed new life into this machine. I haven't even added more RAM to it yet; it still has the max that WinXP could use- 4GB. I can go up to 8GB on this system, and the 64-bit OS can actually make use of it.
I have two Windows 8 laptops and I wish at least one of them had my good old Windows 7 installed. In fact, I’m trying to look into getting rid of Windows 8 altogether. I think it is a horrible, ridiculous jumble that makes no sense whatsoever. If I wanted a smartphone for a computer I would have bought a smartphone so I could scroll around the screen. I don’t want that. I want what I was happy with. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Fortunately, I happened onto a good deal with an Asus desktop with Windows 7 for 1/2 price. I snapped that up at $399 some time ago and have been a happy camper ever since. To make it even more satisfying I use a good old IBM “clicky” keyboard and there is none better.
As I said if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
For sale, two Windows 8 laptops. If not, maybe I can give them to the Salvation Army. I HATE, HATE, HATE Windows 8.
Nice job, EricT.