[Blue Highway]

I have a Dell Dimension 4700 from 2003 about as long as I have been on FR. It’s running Windows 7 and pretty sure there will be no problem with Windows 8 either. Again I am saying a 10+ year life span and still staying current is a remarkable feat. Find me a 10+ year old Apple running Mountain Lion.

[af_vet_rr]

I have a Dell Dimension 4700 from 2003 about as long as I have been on FR. It’s running Windows 7 and pretty sure there will be no problem with Windows 8 either. Again I am saying a 10+ year life span and still staying current is a remarkable feat. Find me a 10+ year old Apple running Mountain Lion.

Congratulations, you are running a Pentium 3 or Pentium 4!

Me, I have no desire to ever go back to such old single-core CPUs on the desktop. I take too many pictures and do too many other things that would waste my time on such an old CPU.

By the way, you better be aggressive about backing up. If you haven't already replaced the hard drive by now, you probably will be sometime in the near future.

[Swordmaker]

I have a Dell Dimension 4700 from 2003 about as long as I have been on FR. It’s running Windows 7 and pretty sure there will be no problem with Windows 8 either. Again I am saying a 10+ year life span and still staying current is a remarkable feat. Find me a 10+ year old Apple running Mountain Lion.

Good for you. Your $25 Pentium 4 Dell 4700 is CERTAINLY not running Windows7 with all of its functions turned on... and it is certainly running very slowly. Apple chooses to leave behind machines that will not fully function instead of giving the full capability of the OS. That is what is meant by paying attention to the user experience. . . and keeping users happy with that experience.

In addition, Apple switched to Intel Processors in 2006 and no PowerPC Macs will run OSX Snow Leopard, Lion, or Mountain Lion. So what?