Unlike Lisa's, my XP machine is in good health and with any luck should remain fully functional for several years. But I've been wondering whether I should move to Win 7 sooner rather than later, given Microsoft's imminent termination of support for XP.
I don't run programs that need a 64-bit machine's memory -- word processing is about all I do on this p/c. It sounds as if my simplest course is to install Win 7 Pro on this machine. If I do this, any thoughts or experience of the pros and cons of doing an upgrade versus a clean install?
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 2:13 AM, Wolfgang Bechstein
mailto:bechstein@xxxxxxxx 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