On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:19:22 -0700, AJL wrote:

> Patty <patty@iainttellin.com> wrote:
>
>>I ran the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor on my desktop which is
>>about 5 years old. With Vista, the NForce2 chipset gave an error on that
>>Advisor since it wasn't supported, but Win7 Advisor says all is fine.
>
> I'm guessing that this reportedly good W7 compatibility with old
> machines will be useful for businesses that may want to upgrade
> without buying a lot of new computers. However I doubt that anyone
> here will rush out and spend $200 for a copy of W7 to run on their 5
> year old laptop... ;)

Companies usually get license deals so they probably wouldn't pay $200 for
each system. I, however, will probably just limp along with XP. ;)