Msg: Re: Win 8 v. Win 7

That's the reason I mentioned that special Lenovo technical sales number, at which I ordered something *not* available on the website, an X1 Carbon with Win 7 Pro and XP Mode, but with *8G* RAM and a *256G* SSD. The number again: 888-768-4465. Again: If you have difficulty, I can give you the number of the salesperson who got it for me. It's a slightly earlier model, with a *slightly* slower chip, but not anything you'd notice.

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Bill Troop mailto:billtroop@xxxxxxxx wrote:

Yes, but only if you're never going to need more than 4GB of memory on that machine and are never going to have to run demanding modern programs.

At 10/02/2014 07:13, you wrote:

Lisa Kleinholz mailto:lkleinholz@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> I am seriously considering spending around $600 on Lenovo with
> Win 7 Pro (64 bit) and XP Mode already installed

As others have said, if the main purpose is to run XyWrite, I would
strongly advise against getting a Win 7 64-bit machine. The 32-bit
incarnation of Win 7 (any version, I believe) runs XyWrite perfectly in
a DOS window (some slight tweaking may be required, depending on your
screen preferences), without even having to resort to XP mode, and
without any of the various virtualization hoops that people with 64-bit
Windows seem to have to jump through.

That said, I recently bought a (second-hand) Macbook Air for a family
member, and these things sure are sexy. Why not get one and finally look
like 99.9 percent of all those cool people in movies and on TV doing
anything with a computer?

Wolfgang Bechstein