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11 Jun 2010, 6:44 am

gramirez wrote:

My mom has a basic Compaq laptop which she uses very casually for email and internet and things like that.

Given the specs,

AMD Turion 64 2.00Ghz
2 GB RAM
nVidia GeForce Go (up to 128MB)
80 GB hard disk

What would perform best? Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7?

Odd. It has only just sunk in... if she is ALREADY using the basic (?) Compaq for these purposes, why does she not just carry on using it?

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11 Jun 2010, 9:04 am

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if she is ALREADY using the basic (?) Compaq for these purposes, why does she not just carry on using it?

Because she wants a Mac. She finds it much easier to use.

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11 Jun 2010, 10:13 am

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lau wrote:

if she is ALREADY using the basic (?) Compaq for these purposes, why does she not just carry on using it?

Because she wants a Mac. She finds it much easier to use.

So where does the Microsoft OS come into it?

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11 Jun 2010, 2:31 pm

lau wrote:

gramirez wrote:

lau wrote:

if she is ALREADY using the basic (?) Compaq for these purposes, why does she not just carry on using it?

Because she wants a Mac. She finds it much easier to use.

So where does the Microsoft OS come into it?

Her current computer is a PC.

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13 Jun 2010, 6:38 am

gramirez wrote:

lau wrote:

gramirez wrote:

lau wrote:

if she is ALREADY using the basic (?) Compaq for these purposes, why does she not just carry on using it?

Because she wants a Mac. She finds it much easier to use.

So where does the Microsoft OS come into it?

Her current computer is a PC.

My current computers are PCs (Personal Computers). I run Linux. On my Compaq laptop it happens to be Puppy Linux, which runs my favourite browser (SeaMonkey) perfectly happily with 128M RAM.

Why does your mother need to switch from whatever OS it is she is currently using - just for "a couple months"?

If it is because the current OS is broken, then enduring Linux, which is free, for that period makes more sense than paying for a Microsoft OS.

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14 Jun 2010, 3:09 am

gramirez wrote:

Ubuntu Net Book Remix it's a breeze simple and light enough for a laptop. Ubuntu Netbook Remix I've had my Mother use it and she is computer illiterate as well

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03 Jul 2010, 10:42 pm

Ubuntu

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09 Jul 2010, 3:45 pm

Windows XP

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09 Jul 2010, 4:34 pm

Thanks to Intel, there is no Mac. It's just PC and iPC. That latop will run Windows 5.1 - 6.1.

Ubuntu is user friendly, although getting flash working on the 64bit variants seems to be troublesome. 32bit is more easier. Uses less memory, and is free.

Windows 6.x take up way too much hard disk space. With that 80GB hard disk, it's going to fill quickly. But not with XP, and much slower with Ubuntu

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09 Jul 2010, 6:20 pm

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Thanks to Intel, there is no Mac. It's just PC and iPC.

So when Apple switched from 68k processors to PowerPC, it wasn't a Mac either? A Mac is a Mac if it has an Apple logo and runs Mac OS X.

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09 Jul 2010, 9:44 pm

gramirez wrote:

Keith wrote:

Thanks to Intel, there is no Mac. It's just PC and iPC.

So when Apple switched from 68k processors to PowerPC, it wasn't a Mac either? A Mac is a Mac if it has an Apple logo and runs Mac OS X.

Ok. Slapped a mac sticker on my hackintosh. Since its a true mac now, I can expect a better resale value right?

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09 Jul 2010, 11:09 pm

Fuzzy wrote:

gramirez wrote:

Keith wrote:

Thanks to Intel, there is no Mac. It's just PC and iPC.

So when Apple switched from 68k processors to PowerPC, it wasn't a Mac either? A Mac is a Mac if it has an Apple logo and runs Mac OS X.

Ok. Slapped a mac sticker on my hackintosh. Since its a true mac now, I can expect a better resale value right?

Did it come from the factory that way? No. Was it designed that way? No.

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09 Jul 2010, 11:23 pm

gramirez wrote:

Did it come from the factory that way? No. Was it designed that way? No.

A Mac is a Mac if it has an Apple logo and runs Mac OS X. I have it on good authority.

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20 Jul 2010, 2:57 pm

I have a Dell XPS 730x with Windows 7 and it is wicked fast! If you want a new computer, I suggest the Dell XPS 730x. Here are the technical specs. If you just want a new OS, you should go with Windows 7. Whatever you do, DON'T get Vista. Windows Vista is the worst OS in the history of OS!

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20 Jul 2010, 5:55 pm

Windows 7 is Windows Vista with a few service packs rebranded to remove the bad publicity.

Anyway, in my experience, Windows XP works about the same as Windows 7.

If you really want a good OS that doesn't break, try Ubuntu.

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22 Jul 2010, 12:58 am

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Debian.

But if you're dead set on Windows, XP would get the best performance by far. That laptop is likely to flop over and die if you try to make it run Vista.

Why not windows 7 ? its scalable and will run fine on those specs.

Linux Mint is my preferred OS

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