John - upgrade to Win7 now. I did it on my old XP machine (dual-core
Intel, 4GB ram) and it was fine. Buy an OEM Win7pro licence from one
of the German sellers on eBay for about €60 IIRC.
On 30/01/2013, JOHN DUGGAN <john.duggan10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ken, Before I switched to an IMac my main desktop computer was running XP
> professional. It gave me very little trouble. My laptop, which is presently
> semi-retired, runs Vista. I have come close to destroying it on more than 1
> occasion! I am considering drastic surgery, putting in a 240GB SSD and
> installing Windoze 7. At the moment I do not use it, as it is so Slow!!
> Trying to decide if it will be cost effective on a 17" widescreen Dell about
> 6 years old which has had Very Little use.......Would of coure prefer a
> MacBook but cannot afford or justify it.
>
> Regards
> John Duggan,
> Wales, UK
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, 30 January 2013, 13:44
> Subject: [OM] New Camera, and some Photos Uploaded.
>
> We've got two Lenovos in the house running Windows 7 and a couple of Vista
> machines and two XPs. I get along with the XP machines well, but the Vista
> os just about drives me to drink. Windows 7 has been outstanding.
> Absolutely fine. The thing about Windows is that every other version is a
> disaster.
>
>
> On Wednesday, January 30, 2013, Chris Barker wrote:
>
>> Nothing's perfect, Bill. Apple's is just a different way of computing.
>> I
>> far prefer it to Microsoft's way.
>>
>> I had to instal a printer driver on a Winders machine yesterday; it took
>> about 10 times longer than on my Macs.
>>
>> At work I waste a lot of time with "network settings" on startup and
>> "saving your settings" on shutdown. It is with great relief that I
>> return
>> in the evening to my Macs; they are flawed as well, but in a more
>> palatable
>> way :-)
>>
>>
>
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