Patty wrote:
> 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. ;)

I would say, limp is not the right word since I very much doubt any
application will run faster on W7 than on XP.

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John Doue