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Answer» My emachines EL1300G-01w came with Vista Home Basic 32 bit installed. SP-2 has been installed. It has an AMD Athlon 2650e processor and 2.0 GB RAM. I'm sick of Vista and have heard nothing but good about "7". Any advise as to how to proceed from here? Really? The advantage of Windows 7 over Vista is over stated. Myself, I THINK you should just wait a bit a bu y a new machine with Windows 7 already on it. For general purpose work you will not see a difference unless you also move up to new hardware.Thanks for your reply,although it's not what I expected, I will consider it.Not what you expect? You said it is a EL1300G-01w, which is the low end model and does not have a piratical upgrade path. Sorry if I hurt your feelings, but that model was a loser from the start. Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64-bit sells for about $189 at some stores. But I don't think it will run on the machine you have. But the OEM version of Windows 7 Home Premium is now included on naked desktops for under $4000 or less. Use you old monitor, add some memory, then you will have a PC that makes a difference. See if you can get somebody to buy the old computer. The computer will run win7 fine, but There really isn't any good reason to upgrade from Vista to 7, and it won't really be worth the cost.I stand corrected. It does run Windows 7. Thanks to both of you for your input. I knew it was a low end machine when I bought it but it was all I could afford at the time. I have heard many COMMENTS that Vista was not as good of an OS as XP or 7 so thought a change might be in order. I personally don't like Vista, I agree both XP and Windows 7 is better. If you are just doing Internet based work, and a bit of picture editing viewing etc, then keep your Vista anyway. Otherwise sell it, and buy an updated computer with Windows 7 OEM already installed (ie Don't purchase Windows 7 separately, too costly) Quote from: fordee9r on November 30, 2011, 03:22:30 AM I have heard many comments that Vista was not as good of an OS as XP or 7 This is a stance, I've never understood. Vista IS 7. Nothing about 7 directly addresses any of the loud complaints made about Vista. The only real reason it seems faster is because the hardware is faster. There were some improvements here and there, but nothing anybody would possibly perceive. There are certainly a lot of changes to Windows 7, but the number of differences in no way justify the ridiculous disparity in popular opinion between Windows Vista and 7. Some people call Windows 7 a "Service Pack" for Vista, or that "Microsoft was fixing their mistake". Well that's a pretty dumb stance, since 3 years passed between Vista and 7, which was about average for Windows versions (XP to Vista was the exception to the rule). I still hold to the opinion that pretty much the sole difference between Vista and 7 has nothing to do with software, but it all boils down to better marketing. An Open Beta that makes people feel they are actually involved; and, the beta's were free, which gave people a taste of Windows 7. A lot of those people had never used Vista and were saying "well it's better than Vista". Of course, the truth was that "it" was the marketing behind Windows 7, not anything about the OS. Many times I've seen people declare that Windows 7 "fixes" the mistakes Microsoft made with Vista. They can never seem to describe what these mistakes are, or provide even a single, discernable account where "This is a mistake with Windows Vista". But judging from the way they talk about Windows 7, clearly it fixes all these "mistakes". of course with such ill-defined mistakes that you cannot even describe them to a third party I find it HARD to believe they can declare those mistakes "fixed" in Windows 7. Some issues described here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Windows_Vista Quote from: kimsland on November 30, 2011, 09:09:57 AM Some issues described here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Windows_Vista Half the criticisms apply equally well to Windows 7. And the other half have been debunked countless times as being based either on quote-mining or selective engineering of said quotations. half Quote from: kimsland on November 30, 2011, 09:20:26 AM half my post consisted of two sentences. They are part of a set, and should be read as such.To the OP. BC is very knowledgeable more than half the time. Like he says, putting time and money into Windows 7 is not a good investment on your budget. Here is a plan. 1. Sell your old machine for $150 2. Add $120 you would pay for Windows 7 3. And about $50 you would have paid to upgrade the memory. 4. Now you have $320 to buy a new e-machine that performs better. Quote from: Geek-9pm on November 30, 2011, 10:41:12 AM BC is very knowledgeable more than half the time. That almost sounds like a compliment! |
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