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finally upgrading comps

visual800

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I have had 2 dell xps 410s for the past 6 years and i got both of them used on ebay. They have been workhorses and with the exception of a couple of viruses (thank to me downloading music) they have rocked. They are not lightning fast but IMO ahead of their time. They still rock but I think its time to upgrade. I could use a little more ooompphh.

I have just bought one refurbished dell xps 8300 for $550 dell wanted $700. i will convert everything over on a weekend and clean off the older ones and throw them on ebay if I get $150 per machine Ill be fine with that. Ive watched the cost of them and they are going down every 3 or 4 months Ive noticed.

Ive looked at so many machines in the past 3 months and I decided to stick with Dell. This may be the biggest POS i will have ever owned but Ill take a chance. I got my mom a new dell for her internet and it had windows 7 on it. After a bout 2 hours of cutting all the crap off on it and calming it down the 7 isnt so bad I guess it a learning curve but I hate to see XP go!
 

WildWestDesigns

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I got my mom a new dell for her internet and it had windows 7 on it. After a bout 2 hours of cutting all the crap off on it and calming it down the 7 isnt so bad I guess it a learning curve but I hate to see XP go!


7 is light years ahead of XP. If you just must have XP to run older machines, see about getting either Pro or Ultimate and run the virtual of XP off of that.

RAM was always a limit with XP. I have programs that would choke XP if the design files were too big and the stitch processor was always re-rendering stitches for every little change.
 

WildWestDesigns

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Win 8.0 will be out soon.....

Only bad thing that I've noticed with that, is that it seems like they are optimizing it for more mobile devices then anything. It seems like most of their innovation (and it does look like Windows is innovating with that OS atleast more so then years past) is geared to that.

I use mobile, but I'm not "hardcore" mobile user for all that. That's my only fear with Win 8.
 
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