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upgrading microsoft xp and word 2003

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    #32
    Crann na Beatha
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    PropJoe10
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    Phoenix wrote: »
    I have a Dell dimension 3100 with 2 gigs of ram running xp 32 any ideas?

    Unless your processor is hopeless, Windows 7 should run on that. Or if you want to go down the Linux route, try Lubuntu or Xubuntu. Their desktop environments run better on old hardware than the standard Ubuntu.


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    White Heart Loon
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    PropJoe10 wrote: »
    Unless your processor is hopeless, Windows 7 should run on that. Or if you want to go down the Linux route, try Lubuntu or Xubuntu. Their desktop environments run better on old hardware than the standard Ubuntu.

    Do not even consider Windows 7 on it unless you have a dual core cpu. Even then your Windows 7 experience will not be great, you'll have to disable aero, indexing and prefetch to get any sort of performance. Not worth it at all IMO


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    White Heart Loon
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    Phoenix wrote: »
    I should add its a Pentium 4 running at 3.00 GHZ

    Which means it's single core, it's a power hungry dinosaur, it's days are over


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    White Heart Loon
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    Phoenix wrote: »
    So nothing can be done for it bar heading to Linux?

    What do you expect to do with it, it's nearly 10 years old, I estimate about 2005


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    White Heart Loon
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    Phoenix wrote: »
    I dont expect it to run on windows 8.1 of course :pac: but is microsft are shutting services for general xp consumers i am seeking alternatives

    You'd find a Core2Duo with Windows 7 on Adverts.ie for about €120 plus shipping


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    PropJoe10
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    Phoenix wrote: »
    So nothing can be done for it bar heading to Linux?

    Windows 7 without Aero would run on that with 2GB RAM. Not fantastically well, but it will run.


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    It will going to be slow on the web no matter what you do.

    So what's the point.


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    White Heart Loon
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    beauf wrote: »
    It will going to be slow on the web no matter what you do.

    So what's the point.

    Exactly and will get worse, not worth it at all


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    Sir Arthur Daley
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    Is a Dell D620 worth upgrading?


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    White Heart Loon
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    WikiHow wrote: »
    Is a Dell D620 worth upgrading?

    Not really, although it has dual core it's the older Core Duo mobile cpu. Doubt it can take more than 2GB ram either. Linux is your best bet


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    PropJoe10
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    WikiHow wrote: »
    Is a Dell D620 worth upgrading?

    Latitude D620 can take up to 4GB RAM according to Crucial. I have one that runs Vista so it should be able to run Windows 7 quite comfortably, especially if you upgraded the RAM. Never going to be fantastic though.


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    #47
    Sir Arthur Daley
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    Would 2GB Ram be sufficient to drive windows 7?


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    beauf
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    Depends what you are doing. Have it on a c2d 1.5Ghz lappy with 2GB and its fine. No problems with anything. But its only used for office stuff and browsing.

    But also have it on old 4GB Dual Xeon 2.4Ghz and its slow. For office stuff and moving files around its fine. But its slow browsing the web. The problem isn't Windows 7, its that the Web requires more power as websites get more complex. Especially streaming video. If you have a graphics card that can take some of the load off, for page rendering and handing video, it helps. The Xeon has an old AGP Quadro280 64mb but still is slow. Its just too old.

    Your issue isn't the 2GB of RAM its how old is the machine, and whats the CPU.


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    AirBiscuit
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    White Heart Loon wrote: »
    Do not even consider Windows 7 on it unless you have a dual core cpu. Even then your Windows 7 experience will not be great, you'll have to disable aero, indexing and prefetch to get any sort of performance. Not worth it at all IMO

    I call bull**** on that. Up until very recently I had a laptop with a single core Celeron @1.73GHz with only 1GB ram and it ran both 7 and 8's preview builds perfectly fine. You seem to be mixing up 7 with Vista for whatever reason, because it came with vista and ran like ****, but ran about 5 times faster with 7 installed (and aero ran fine FYI). The only reason I upgraded recently was because the charging pin broke after 7 years.


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    White Heart Loon
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    Botulism wrote: »
    I call bull**** on that. Up until very recently I had a laptop with a single core Celeron @1.73GHz with only 1GB ram and it ran both 7 and 8's preview builds perfectly fine. You seem to be mixing up 7 with Vista for whatever reason, because it came with vista and ran like ****, but ran about 5 times faster with 7 installed (and aero ran fine FYI). The only reason I upgraded recently was because the charging pin broke after 7 years.

    A single core Celly with 1GB ram, I'm sure you're having a great experience. A modern day browser needs that ram alone, nevermind the overheads of an OS
    http://www.ghacks.net/2014/01/02/chrome-34-firefox-29-internet-explorer-11-memory-use-2014/

    A fresh patched up to date install of Vista runs fine on decent hardware, the biggest problem with Vista is that they made the minimum requirements too low, but now hardware has caught up it's fine. The service packs have fixed most of the sluggishness issues but it needs a fresh install to sort


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    beauf
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    Its does work though. Someone in the family has a Dell 1300 laptop, 2GB 1.6Ghz Celeron M. With Windows 7. Its usuable, they are happy with it. But I would find it a little sluggish.


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    AirBiscuit
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    White Heart Loon wrote: »
    A modern day browser needs that ram alone, nevermind the overheads of an OS
    http://www.ghacks.net/2014/01/02/chrome-34-firefox-29-internet-explorer-11-memory-use-2014/

    That may be true for the top 3 browsers, but I blame that on
    1) IE being slow anyways
    2) Firefox having a ton of memory leaks
    3) Chrome creating a process for every little thing/being a botnet.

    I switched to Opera while I had that laptop and was delighted. I still use it on this brand new one, and not that ****ty chromium based version either.


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