I have a machne that came with VISTA installed- it sucked so bad I spent 2 weeks finding drivers to make XP work on it. It runs about two or three times faster.
Any idea how Win7 runs on a machine like this?
Windows 7, while better than Vista, does need to have, at least, 2 gigabytes of Ram, and a modern processor.
On your XP box, what is the processor? If you don’t know the best way to find out and post it is to go to ...
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On the very first page you see, System Summary, select all and copy and paste that into a post.
All the benchmarks that I have seen, including our own, show that Windows 7 will run faster than Vista on the same hardware.
That was not true for everything that was tested. But overall it was faster.
I am enthusiastic about using and recommending Windows 7 to my clients. I’ve put it through its paces and believe it to be a solid performer.
No, I’m not Bill Gates and I don’t work for Microsoft. :) In fact, I’ve spent the last two years, or so, warning everyone about Vista. Not only that, we stopped selling systems with Vista installed—clients blame us, not Microsoft.