Which pc?

donnajunkie

getmore4less wrote: »

What are you using for sound currently?

I get sound from my monitor. It is odd because i cant see anything resembling a speaker. There is a slot for speakers. I was surprised when i first turned it on to hear the windows start up sound.

slinga

donnajunkie wrote: »

Why would i lie about that? it doesnt make sense. Was it the fastest ever, of course not. Did i have any problems of real concern, no. Well certainly not often thats for sure.

My sil had a 1 Gb Ram using Vista and then she passed the laptop on to me so I could use it whist travelling.


It worked fine until about 3 years ago and I could watch live sport Youtube etc etc in many countries with no buffering.


Don't care whether anyone believes this or not but it worked for me.


Then 3 years ago it stopped working. Tried a few things think I even posted on here but couldn't get it to work any longer.


So bought a Dell XPS.


Get the same sort of availability of downloads, nothing appreciably faster with the Dell 16 GB, Win 10 compared to the Vista 1 GB.

EveryWhere

slinga wrote: »

My sil had a 1 Gb Ram using Vista and then she passed the laptop on to me so I could use it whist travelling.


It worked fine until about 3 years ago and I could watch live sport Youtube etc etc in many countries with no buffering.


Don't care whether anyone believes this or not but it worked for me.


Then 3 years ago it stopped working. Tried a few things think I even posted on here but couldn't get it to work any longer.


So bought a Dell XPS.


Get the same sort of availability of downloads, nothing appreciably faster with the Dell 16 GB, Win 10 compared to the Vista 1 GB.

Just nonsense...
This is all your unmeasured, subjective opinion. it speaks nothing of your loading times which likely was measured in minutes, not seconds and the resolution of the streamed video.
Now here you are trying to tell us that there is no difference between Vista on 1 GB of RAM and Windows 10 on 16 GB of RAM.
Unbelievable...

coffeehound

slinga wrote: »

So bought a Dell XPS.

Get the same sort of availability of downloads, nothing appreciably faster with the Dell 16 GB, Win 10 compared to the Vista 1 GB.

I had a high-spec Dell XPS. It was awful. Slow, ponderous, glitchy, buggy. Flogged it after 3 months.

EveryWhere

coffeehound wrote: »

I had a high-spec Dell XPS. It was awful. Slow, ponderous, glitchy, buggy. Flogged it after 3 months.

That might explain it...

Carrot007

caveman38 wrote: »

I can remember my first PC from 30 years ago. From memory (remember I'm 67) it was a Intel 386 CPU, 500MB RAM, 126 MG HDD running Windows 3.1 and a dial up Modem delivering 256 MB internet speed.

Thanks. I am amused.


Such a spec is impossible.


I mean I guess you could have had 2 bonded ISDN lines. Bloody expensive though. And more 4 meg ram for a 386. (it is not going to be more than the hd!). and 120 hd's were probably late 486 early pentium era.


Sorry though, not being a tool. Just amused how memory gets. It does for other things for me! Not computers though.

DoaM

Intel 386 was likely 1MB RAM max and 80GB HDD max.

We had one at my old work that we used for running reliability calcs ... we'd set it going at 5pm and then hope it had completed by 10am the next morning.

And that was a vast improvement over the previous 286 machine ... we'd set that going at 5pm on Friday and hope it had finished by 9am on Monday.

coffeehound

Remember when the first 80386 machines came out and they were about 3.5 grand! :eek:

I was at the launch of windows 3 (was it?) and remember the pin-drop silence among the audience when the guy said you needed to have a '386 in order to run it. Haha. Halcyon days.

DoaM

Windows 3.0 ran on a 286. 3.1 may also have run on it. (The 286 machine I mentioned above ran Win 3.0 - it wasn't DOS).

coffeehound

Ah I must have misremembered the version number; thought it was 3.