XP or Windows 7

paddyrg

XP is out of support, get win7.

GunJack

paddyrg wrote: »

XP is out of support, get win7.

not yet it's not

Fortyfoot

stone7 wrote: »

Is this the Windows 7 starter version?

Yes it is, SEE HERE.

My friend is buying it for her granddaughter who is just starting a course at a technical college. It will be used for WP, mail and notes.

Thanks for the responses so far.

I will suggest waiting 'till the sales and try and pick up one with more memory. I like the advice on getting rid of unnecessary features.

Fortyfoot

paddyrg

GunJack wrote: »

not yet it's not

OK, I'll be more explicit - it's in //Extended Support// not mainstream support. It gets security hotfixes but little-to-no active development until 2014 sometime (and we're just about 2011 already!) after which time you're stuck with asking your system manufacturer for help.

Win 7 is still at the start of its Mainstream support phase meaning it is still going to have full support for probably long beyond the useful life of the hardware.

GunJack

paddyrg wrote: »

OK, I'll be more explicit - it's in //Extended Support// not mainstream support. It gets security hotfixes but little-to-no active development until 2014 sometime (and we're just about 2011 already!) after which time you're stuck with asking your system manufacturer for help.QUOTE]


Or by then you can get W7 after they've ironed all the early bugs out

Inactive

By 2014, no doubt Win 7 will be out of date as well.

diable

paddyrg wrote: »

XP is out of support, get win7.

Roll on Windows 7 migration contracts......... lovely jubbly

GunJack

Inactive wrote: »

By 2014, no doubt Win 7 will be out of date as well.

And this is, in all honesty, the real issue - with windows 8 already being spoken about, by the time XP is totally unsupported, is it going to be a case of bypass W7 altogether and go straight to 8 Only time will tell.......

pcombo

Not gonna be able to do much with 1GB ram remember thats shared with graphics and sound. So its going to be poor performance.

sharkie

I'd like to go with the crowd and vote 7 because it is so good, but in my mind I have to say xp. While 7 is great on multi core with Gig's of ram, on a smaller cpu with little memory think xp would perform better.