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Re: Windows 10 considerations

Dear Kari

I'm not sure your suggestion about not upgrading older systems always
applies.


I am running a silent system I built around 8 years ago with an AMD
motherboard. I was using XP but have just in the last couple of weeks
upgraded to Windows 7 with no problem -- in fact with less problem than
installing XP because the operating system appears to carry drivers for
everything on the motherboard. In addition to that I can still plug a
variety of modern AMD processors into the board. I last upgraded about
four years ago with a dual processor and was looking last month at some
quad processor chips.


Of course commercial systems may present problems that I have not
encountered.


Best wishes

Paul

On 08/01/2016 19:22, Kari Eveli wrote:


Jordan,

As a general rule, there is not much to be gained from changing
something that works well. Computers should ideally be used with the
 operating system they came with. Buying a new system with new system
 software is the easiest solution when the old one stops working or
becomes too much of a risk to use. Upgrades are just stopgap measures
to make the old systems last longer. Given the short cycles of
technology, upgrading systems older than a couple of years may prove
to be counterproductive.

Best regards,

Kari Eveli LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland) lexitec@xxxxxxxx

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You make me very glad that I am using older hardware with older
chips / CPU ! I think the most recent desktop rig that I'm running
is circa 2009. A laptop may be from about a year later. They are
powerful enough for the vast majority of what I do, computing wise.
I've also got a decent supply of spare parts. Maybe there is some
way to block or turn off said chips, or parts of what they do, but
now I'm even less interested in upgrading.