On 12/29/2012 3:29 AM, BillW50 wrote:
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Frank typed:
Thanks. Mentioned in other thread that son wiped machine and replaced
OS with Linux. He had recovered Vista but Windows updates slowed it
to a crawl. Having wifi connection problem, I put it aside and just
bought a new GW. Hard to tell what recovery systems are in place.

Different strokes I guess. I am hooked on the year 2006 for computers. I
have 16 of them from that year alone. What is nice about them is the
better ones comes with dual core CPUs, and supports 64 bit, 4GB or more
memory, has XP drivers, can run XP through Windows 8, etc.

Heck I just bought two new Dell Latitude ST machines. And they are
terrible! As they are so slow you can't even play most youtube videos on
them. I am so sorry I bought them now. I can't believe Dell would even
sell these thinking people would be happy with them. :-(


My new GW is great. Came with 6 gigs memory with potential upgrade to
32, 64 bit and terabyte HD which I will never fill. It is also very
fast and extremely quiet. Very fast in loading. With my old Vista
machine, I'd be playing games for 5 minutes while it fully loaded. Now
it is ready to go in maybe 15 seconds.

Cannot say I am real happy with Win 8 which is more designed for phones
and touch screens. High learning curve to get it to operate on my
desktop like I want. For example picture viewer and pdf viewer are what
you might expect on a phone and only view with no file manipulation.
You have to default to desktop programs. Classical card games are not
there and must be downloaded as aps - also a PITA.

Might also mention that the Carbonite backup was disappointing as it did
not back up my music, videos or Thunderbird profile. I was ditching it
anyway for a portable HD as it seemed to slow down machine, sometimes
not allowing it to be shut down. It did save all my important business
documents and photos.