You can get Lenovo ThinkPads with Win 7 Pro; you need to call a special number, not the regular sales number, which will tell you they don't make them any more. Call 888-768-4465. I just a week ago got a ThinkPad X1 Carbon with Win 7 Pro that is willing to act as XP does; very good for XyW (very old DOS version!).You can also get a Win 8 machine and have Microsoft roll is back to Win 7, which they'll do, though that consumes more hard-drive memory and I don't know whether there are restrictions about which version of Win 7 you get to roll it back to.For fun--about Win 8.1: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/02/gates-spends-entire-first-day-back-in-office-trying-to-install-windows-81.html?utm_source=tny&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=borowitz&mbid=nl_Borowitz%20(31)" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:16px">http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/02/gates-spends-entire-first-day-back-in-office-trying-to-install-windows-81.html?utm_source=tny&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=borowitz&mbid=nl_Borowitz%20On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Lisa Kleinholz mailto:lkleinholz@xxxxxxxx wrote:
My old XP machine is dying. I'm currently using a Mac for everything other than XyWrite.
I must have a second machine for the type of work that I do.
Can anyone recommend whether to try to find a new Windows 7 machine or to buy another Mac and run DosBox or Parallels. Still not sure how to get XP onto a Parallels set up on Mac, though I've had fairly good luck with DoxBox/Boxer (but lack ability to have more than 2 windows).
Ideally, I'd buy another XP machine, but that appears to be impossible.
I've been following all the threads on dealing with Windows with increasing frustration.
Lisa
From: Bill Troop mailto:billtroop@xxxxxxxx
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, February 7, 2014 10:30 AM
Subject: Win 8 v. Win 7
According to a recent review feature in PC Mag on the best business
ultrabooks,
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2430367,00.asp
'Windows 8 has very few business adherents'. Consequently many of
these new products still come with Windows 7, which makes it easier
to work with Xy4.
However, for those stuck with a new Win 8 install, I can report that
I am still perfectly happy with free VMware player, Win2K, Xy4.
Thanks to the VMs, and the fact that there are at least four
important vendors, there is enough competition to ensure health and
low to free pricing for individual users.