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New PC: WinXP or Win 7?
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| 6/30/2010
| Oshkalaboomboom
Posted on 06/30/2010 2:00:01 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
My old computer died the other day and I'm picking up a new one tomorrow. I always load the OS myself and for the last few times I've stayed with XP Pro SP3 because it's stable and reliable for what I use the pc for. I've heard decent things about Windows 7 but for now I'm thinking of staying with XP. If you had the chance to reload your pc today would you stick with XP or move to Win 7, and why? No flavors of Unix are an option, I'm sure it's a great OS but I want Windows for this one so just opinions on those 2 please.
TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: windows7; windowsxp
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
MacBook Pro. Because they work. :)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
7, deluxe edition, it’s fast, it’s got cool features, and it can make XP virtual machines just in case you really need one.
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posted on
06/30/2010 2:01:28 PM PDT
by
discostu
(like a dog being shown a card trick)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
Windows 7, because it works and is half the price of a Winbook Pro.
To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
D’oh! Half the price of a MacBook Pro.
To: Oshkalaboomboom
Win 7, unless you like paying 2.4x more for Mac products.
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posted on
06/30/2010 2:03:05 PM PDT
by
Codeflier
(Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama - 4 democrat presidents in a row and counting...)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
Without a doubt, Win7.
Especially on a new machine.
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posted on
06/30/2010 2:03:31 PM PDT
by
astyanax
(Liberalism: Logic's retarded cousin.)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
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posted on
06/30/2010 2:03:37 PM PDT
by
badpacifist
(Life is short and hard... Bad decisions make life is shorter and harder)
To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
I bought Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit....Then had to go to 7 Professional for another 80 bucks to run the old programs.
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posted on
06/30/2010 2:03:45 PM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
(What)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
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posted on
06/30/2010 2:04:04 PM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, A Matter Of Fact, Not A Matter Of Opinion)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
if money isn’t an issue, get win 7. Window 7 is better than XP
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posted on
06/30/2010 2:04:04 PM PDT
by
4rcane
To: Oshkalaboomboom
I recommend Windows 98. It’s +91 better than Windows 7.
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posted on
06/30/2010 2:04:57 PM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
7 without question. XP is decent but will no longer be supported. 7 fixed the Vista problems and seems to be a pretty strong operating system.
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posted on
06/30/2010 2:05:11 PM PDT
by
mnehring
To: Oshkalaboomboom
If it has 4 gigs of ram and is a 64 bit machine, you’d be crazy to not load Win-7 64.
If it’s 1 gig of ram you’d be crazy to not load XP.
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posted on
06/30/2010 2:05:11 PM PDT
by
MarineBrat
(Better dead than red!)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
I don't do windoze, linux only, but a client/friend bought a new laptop that had Vista on it and wasted no time in getting 7 for it. Only problem he had was stereo bluetooth drivers, which we resolved.
Based on that experience, I would have to vote for 7.
/johnny
To: Oshkalaboomboom
Actually I prefer W2000. I have had XP for a while because of a couple of incompatibilities in W2K but I have found patches for those and am going back.W2K does a couple of things that I depend on very easily that are laborious in XP and 7. I don’t even consider Vista.
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posted on
06/30/2010 2:07:45 PM PDT
by
arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson" to have your econ arguments at hand.)
To: discostu; Oshkalaboomboom
Love Win 7 Deluxe - no problems

(still use XP on an older machine)
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posted on
06/30/2010 2:09:11 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
Win 7 .. and if you get Windows 7 Professional or Windows 7 Ultimate... it includes Windows XP that runs in Windows 7 as a virtual machine... but confirm the CPU supports virtual machines
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posted on
06/30/2010 2:09:20 PM PDT
by
tophat9000
(.............................. BP + BO = BS ...........................Formula for a disaster...)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
7 is stable. But who remembers NT for old times sake?
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posted on
06/30/2010 2:10:35 PM PDT
by
Thebaddog
(Shakey Jake said, " The hippies will never survive!")
To: Keith in Iowa
"
MacBook Pro. Because they work. :)"
Yea, almost as well as ASUS... and Toshiba... and Sony.
Laptop Rankings
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posted on
06/30/2010 2:11:00 PM PDT
by
astyanax
(Liberalism: Logic's retarded cousin.)
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