Star How to Get and Keep Windows XP After June 30
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 5th Jun 2008 23:19 UTC, submitted by estherschindler
Windows While I can personally attest for the gains Microsoft made when it comes to Windows Vista's performance between its release-to-manufacture November 2006 and now, there is no denying the fact that Vista simply isn't made for running on lower-specced computers. In addition, while Vista brings interesting new features and massive overhauls of many subsystems, a lot of people simply don't like it. Sadly for them, Windows XP is going out-of-sale 30 June. However, there are plenty of loopholes - PC World listed them.
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RE[4]: XP
by tomcat on Fri 6th Jun 2008 06:36 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: XP"
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"You have to be kidding me. A 600$ machine will run vista like a dream. 3,000 and you are talking about 9600 GTX cards and RAID 0 Solid State drives
My machine, from 2001, had a 60USD mem upgrade and now runs Vista, with full Aero, just fine. A friend of mine is sending me a spare processor for free he had lying around (so I'm going from an Athlon XP 1600+ to a 2800+) and my machine will chug along just fine. "

Vista runs just fine on most hardware sold within the past couple years, despite what the zealots say. You need at least 2GB of memory and a reasonable video card, of course, but the cost of those items is negligible. From what some people say, you'd think they had to give a kidney to get Vista running.

Edited 2008-06-06 06:44 UTC

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