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Re:Ten years of Windows XP: how longevity became a curse by redthrowaway on Tuesday October 25, 2011 @07:02PM (#3156278)
1 GHz, 1 GB RAM, and 16 GB HD are micenuts. You couldn't buy less than that if you tried. Hell, you could run it on a phone.

Windows 7 is faster and much, much nicer on any computer made in the last 2-3 years. I'm not a Windows fan by any means, but choosing to run XP over 7 in 2011 is incomprehensible.

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Re:Ten years of Windows XP: how longevity became a curse by noarchy on Tuesday October 25, 2011 @08:53PM (#3156618)
Today's high end smartphones are more powerful than the last machine on which I ran XP. Vista ran like a bloated pig, but Win 7 seems to be the sweet spot, much like XP was in its time.
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Re:Ten years of Windows XP: how longevity became a curse by eropple on Tuesday October 25, 2011 @09:23PM (#3156707)
Vista wasn't bad after SP1 or so.
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