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With my latest foray into Windows 7 build 7100 (official Release Candidate from MS Technet) I was experiencing largely the same errors/issues/bad performance as I had on the unofficial 7057 and 7077 wherein everyone replied “Hold your horses”

One of my test systems, this Athlon64 3200+ with 2 gigs of RAM and a Geforce 7650 GS was to see how 7 performed on hardware that was reasonable 3-4 years ago, and overall it failed terribly.
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Linoman said:
The guy tested it on a Athlon64 3200+:rolleyes:
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Exactly the point, i have a similar system and it still works beautifully many people see no need to upgrade a PC that still complies with most standards.
 
Aqua_lung said:
Exactly the point, i have a similar system and it still works beautifully many people see no need to upgrade a PC that still complies with most standards.
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For crying out loud no one is forcing people with older machines to use Windows 7. If you have older hardware then please use XP or a stripped version of Linux.

It is like people complaining that their 4 year old machine can not run Crysis. 4 Years is a long time with technology.
 
Linoman said:
For crying out loud no one is forcing people with older machines to use Windows 7. If you have older hardware then please use XP or a stripped version of Linux.

It is like people complaining that their 4 year old machine can not run Crysis. 4 Years is a long time with technology.
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OK my 4 year old system supports USB2, SATA2, PCIe and DDR memory is still easy to get hold of... now why would someone who has a PC that still supports new technology upgrade hardware that will give them the same features?

The test proves that a new linux release gives you all the benefits of new technology with none of the lag while 7 is just a vista clone with improvements.
 
Interesting thread... my PC is almost 4 years old. Works fine.
But I do agree with Linoman, back in the day, we ran XP on a Pentium 2... and it worked in the same sense that a road construction worker works. The OS was just not built for it.

With XP you could put it on a diet and [-]force[/-] make it run on old PCs. Can't they do the same with win7?
 
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