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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.

I swap around hard drives like underwear. And yes it isd Pentium 4. No problems. I have newer laptops but still use the Dell without any issues. Also not much difference with a single core and my dual core AMD laptops.

It all depends on your needs.

I’ve been using an AMD Duron 1300 since around 2003. It just blew on me a few months ago - replaced with an old Soyo Dragon Ultra MB that was loaded with...another Duron 1300. Its a XP w/2GB box - just to run an Apache server and few older image editing packages that I prefer (Micrografx Picture Publisher Ulead Photo Impact, Swish). So - more cores isn’t going to make a ton of difference running software that old or serving pages across my network.

Nothing archival. I dont use it on the web - but I do have it networked so I can access the edited files on my newer, faster Zotac/Linux box that I do the majority of my work on. And I have a nice stack of IDE drives. I still get some real work out of that Duron machine - but not sure having it up to date with SP3 makes any difference.

For the record - I do have 2 Macs - Power Mac G4 that runs 10.4 that I use for checking web layouts in Safari. Got that at a garage sale for 5 bucks! I can’t update to the latest Safari or Firefox on that system. I think there is a security update or something that needs to be run. And an iBook G4 which gets stuck at boot asking for “Disk 2” with some message I can’t recall.