Windows 7 on a single core processor?

amacachi

My laptop just died so I've to get a new one, preferably cheap. Got my eye on one with a single core processor and Windows 7 Home Premium. From experience I know Vista was awful with a single core processor, will 7 be any better?

Biggins

amacachi wrote: »

My laptop just died so I've to get a new one, preferably cheap. Got my eye on one with a single core processor and Windows 7 Home Premium. From experience I know Vista was awful with a single core processor, will 7 be any better?

Yes. Its much less demanding, on processor's, RAM and other system parts.
No ifs or buts.
I have Win 7 on a number of much more older machines myself.
I've no doubts others here will agree.

Capt'n Midnight

how did it die , might be recoverable ?

amacachi

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

how did it die , might be recoverable ?

I've been through 3 chargers since I got it, battery wouldn't charge at all and it would power off straightaway if the charger fell out. Been using my sister's charger for a while and this morning when I started it this mornin it was running chkdsk or whatever and there was, as best I can describe, a sizzling/crackling sound and since then the power diode doesn't even flash up. Not that worried about recovering it unless I can do it cheaply.


Thanks Biggins, may sort this out later if I can.

TouchingVirus

amacachi wrote: »

I've been through 3 chargers since I got it, battery wouldn't charge at all and it would power off straightaway if the charger fell out. Been using my sister's charger for a while and this morning when I started it this mornin it was running chkdsk or whatever and there was, as best I can describe, a sizzling/crackling sound and since then the power diode doesn't even flash up. Not that worried about recovering it unless I can do it cheaply.


Thanks Biggins, may sort this out later if I can.

One of my friends is running it on a laptop with an AMD Sempron doing 1.6GHz and it's definitely usable - he's hardcore

Capt'n Midnight

if the laptop sizzled
it might be the power socket on the laptop that needs a bit of soldering if it is loose


15 seconds to solder it
allow at least an hour to disassemble and reassemble the lap to get to that point



if it was the adaptor that sizzled

amacachi

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

if the laptop sizzled
it might be the power socket on the laptop that needs a bit of soldering if it is loose


15 seconds to solder it
allow at least an hour to disassemble and reassemble the lap to get to that point



if it was the adaptor that sizzled

Aye I'll probably make an effort to fix it at some point, know a few people who'd have a clue how to do it. For the last year or so the battery only lasted 5 minutes max. The charger is fine, working on the sister's laptop. TBH I'm not too worried about it, backed up pretty much everything a few month's back because I knew it was on the way out.

How to describe the noise. Ya know when ya a computer freezes and ya tap a few buttons and it makes a retro "boop" kinda sound? It sounded like it was "trying" to do that. As soon as it happened my sister and I both just said it couldn't be good. :pac:

Where I work we're doing some cheap eMachines E627 laptops with single core 1.6 GHz AMD processors and Windows 7. I've tested a few and they're not too bad. Certainly usable, I just wouldn't advise using a heavy anti-virus on one (that includes AVG 8 or 9).

amacachi

Got it up and running anyway, no freezing so far, which is a big step up from the last one.

mukki

be very careful of a sizzling laptop, it could easily burn your house to the ground, if left on a bed or couch


might be safest to strip out the hard drive ram and lcd and dump it (parts would be worth more then the entire laptop on adverts.ie)