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Still running XP?

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queenmetroid:
I dunno. I paid 50 bucks for Windows 7. To me, that's worth it. Vista sucks, but then again, I never paid for such a fail OS, and I knew it was while I was running it.

Windows 7, on the other hand, is worth paying for. XP is way the heck outmoded, anyway. I go back to it and think "Wow, where is all the features?"

crossed:
Quite simply: I had to. I don't have any ethernet plugs in my house, so if I wanted a 24/7 seedbox, I'd have to go wireless; and the only way I knew of to get my Wi-Fi USB to work was to upgrade (that's right- UPgrade) to XP. I'm not using upgrade a a derogatory term for Vista either, the machine has been running Win98 for a decade. Yeah, my seed box is 12 years old and running XP. Very well I might add. Currently I've got 290 active torrents in utorrent, 9 tabs in Firefox, 3 explorer windows, Excel, and Windows Media Player running (with a library of 6900 files). Runs quiet as mouse too. I wish I could say the same for my laptop. ;)

System:
Windows XP v2002 SP3
Pentium II processor, 398 MHz
512MB RAM
Drive A:\ 3 1/2" floppy ftw
Drive C:\ HD-120GB external (portable) storage
Drive D:\ Compaq CD/DVD combo
Drive E:\ HD-9.4GB (system drive)
Drive F:\ HD-500GB seed storage
Drive G:\ Lite-On CD-RW
USB ports:
2x1.1
5x2.0 (PCI)

sdedalus83:
Vista 64 runs well on my core 2 quad, but there are still way too many annoyances. And performance issues to use it on a notebook or 32bit desktop.

Takeshi:

--- Quote from: bloody000 on July 22, 2009, 08:06:48 PM ---XP vs. Vista... again
oh lol

--- End quote ---
Well, that was not my intention, this was meant to display everyone's reasons why they haven't changed.

Zalis116:
I haven't upgraded from XP because I haven't seen any pressing need to. Plus, I heard all the random horror stories about Vista, and felt that any possible benefits weren't worth the risk. I've still got a 4-year-old PC with a mere 512MB RAM,* so I doubt it could handle Vista anyway. I tend to operate on inertia like that... I ran Windows 98 on my old PC from the day I got it in September 2000 until the day it died in March 2005. I'll get Windows 7 when I upgrade my system in a few years.


*Which I have tried to upgrade, but the RAM I bought after meticulous research would not physically fit in the slot. I haven't attempted upgrading it since then, as my philosophy is "If I've screwed something up once, I'll probably screw it up again, so I may as well not bother trying."

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