Re: Windows 10 considerations

[Kari Eveli lexitec@xxxxxxxx]

Dear Paul,

I think you have an important point there. In fact, my own rig (an HP
Z400 which I bought second-hand was originally a Vista machine that has
been upgraded to Win7). It is true that you can upgrade many XP machines
to Win7, most Vista machines to Win7, most Win7 machines to Win8 and
Win10. My point is to resist any unnecessary changes as long as one can.
Keep your system in the original configuration while it is supported.
Less pain, more gain. Despite all the talk about user interface
enhancements, I have seen none that really matter. The operating system
should remain in the background, the apps should be the main thing in
our computing.


Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
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9.1.2016, 13:57, Paul Breeze (Redacted sender paul.breeze for DMARC) wrote:
> 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
> >
> > *** Lexitec Online *** Lexitec in English:
> > http://www.lexitec.fi/english.html Home page in Finnish:
> > http://www.lexitec.fi/
> >
> >
> > > 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.