Windows 7: Why you shouldn not upgrade to Windows 7!
Why you shouldn not upgrade to Windows 7!
by neolithic1958 - 7/25/09 2:03 AMwell not in the majority of cases, what you normally end up with is a PC that grinds to a halt if its more than a couple of years old, the IT manager before me at work in his wisdom installed Vista on a couple of desktops that where 3-4 years old and they ran like snails with loads of hard drive activity. Far better to completely reformat your hard drive re-install Windows XP or whatever, ideally fit a new faster hard drive and max the memory while they are so cheap and you will enjoy like an awfull lot more. Done get me wrong 3 or out our 4 machines run Vista and tow have mad the memory maxed to 4gb (yeah I Know windows only sees 3.25GB but we also run Suse/Ubuntu linux 64 bit on 2 which can see it all!) New OSes are for NEW machines, I have been supporting, servicing and building PCs since 1990.
Double negative
by Steven Haninger - 7/25/09 4:54 AM In reply to: Why you shouldn not upgrade to Windows 7! by neolithic1958Well, if you "shouldn not" (sic) upgrade than you should upgrade. BTW, I've a 6 year old rig running the RC just fine. It seems every bit as good as my XP installation on the same hardware.
upgrade who me?
by neolithic1958 - 7/25/09 2:55 PM In reply to: Double negative by Steven Haningerwell i dont upgrade as I always format my pcs for other reasons too, I bet it wont catch a quad pentium on either os then, theys where vista comes into its own
Know what your upgrading
by tubaloth - 8/4/09 7:58 AM In reply to: Why you shouldn not upgrade to Windows 7! by neolithic1958You shouldn't never just upgrade a PC just because something new came out. You should know if your machine can run it, What problems are going to come if you do install it (Compatibility) and so forth.
Yes the guy before you was way Dumb is installing Vista on a machine that probably wasn't built for it. This is what most of the PC makers did at the time (put vista on XP machines). It didn't work. People would take home there brand new PC and it was slow! Because it wasn't built for Vista.
Now that we have come to the age of Dual Cores and 4gb of memory, (thanks to vista to some extent) most computers that have come out sense Vista are Windows 7 ready and really well run Windows 7 better. So you don't need a New computer, you just need to know if you computer is new enough.
hmmm...
by jeff_windows_team
- 8/4/09 9:11 AM
In reply to: Why you shouldn not upgrade to Windows 7! by neolithic1958
"well not in the majority of cases, what you normally end up with is a PC that grinds to a halt if its more than a couple of years old"
Thanks for pointing out that in most cases older PCs will run Windows 7 just fine 
If you are uncertain, just run the Windows 7 upgrade advisor: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/get/upgrade-advisor.aspx
Jeff
Windows Outreach Team
Win 7 is not Vista
by mahutchinson - 8/4/09 10:32 AM In reply to: Why you shouldn not upgrade to Windows 7! by neolithic1958Why are you comparing Win 7 to Vista when Win 7 is a different animal ? It's common knowledge that Win 7 is a considerable improvement on Vista and is designed to run on a wide range of PCs from notebooks up. I ignored Vista like many others but have been impressed with the Win 7 RC and got my pre-order in on July 15th for the final version at the original low price - the first software I have ever bought.
Why are you comparing Win 7 to Vista
by neolithic1958 - 8/8/09 3:03 PM In reply to: Win 7 is not Vista by mahutchinsonBecause windows 7 is built on a Vista core, just because they changed the name does not change the animal. 'I ignored Vista like many others' why Vista is great if you buy a new pc to run it on! you can't run new os'es on old PC's that always been the case.
One Word Answer... Price!
by AnthonyNYC - 8/8/09 11:03 AM In reply to: Why you shouldn not upgrade to Windows 7! by neolithic1958For me at least, i had paid for Vista Ultimate, and as of now there has never been any discount for Win7 Ultimate.
So it would cost a full $220 to upgrade and $320 for new.
too High IMHO.
Thanks
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