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| Thread ID: 135467 | 2013-11-06 01:44:00 | Still a lot of people and businesses slow to see the value in moving up from XP.. | Webdevguy (17166) | PC World Chat |
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| 1359000 | 2013-11-10 00:09:00 | with 1GB of ram and a new hdd or a 32GB ssd windows XP is pretty quick even on really old hardware. Except Windows XP doesn't support the TRIM command so isn't suited for SSDs - for a PC with an SSD, I wouldn't recommended anything older than Windows 7. |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1359001 | 2013-11-10 00:39:00 | Except Windows XP doesn't support the TRIM command so isn't suited for SSDs - for a PC with an SSD, I wouldn't recommended anything older than Windows 7. yes, you can't get XP to trim, but you can use certain tools to manually (or set it to use a schedule) send the trim command for all currently deleted files. Intel drives do so with the intel SSD Toolbox, and there is a tool called wiper.exe works with indilinx chipset drives (sold by a variety of manufacturers) set it to do a free space trim every week. shouldn't be much of a problem if only the OS, settings and application are stored on the SSD while documents, videos, photos etc are stored on a magnetic storage device. a hybrid drive may be a better suggestion for older hardware and XP as the SSD is invisible to the OS/user |
Mirddes (10) | ||
| 1359002 | 2013-11-10 00:40:00 | moderators who suggest breaking forums should not be moderators. And users who cannot self moderate or follow directions from moderators will be sent to the sin bin the think of their transgressions. Consider yourself warned. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1359003 | 2013-11-10 00:55:00 | In a more on topic note, I was at our local church earlier. Their main office PC still runs XP. All they do is fire up Webmail in Chrome and use it to print the occasional document. They keep XP coz there's little to be gained from paying out for anything else. That's a thousand bucks that could be going to elsewhere. No point in them installing Linux when XP still "works". Sure its slow with only 1GB of RAM and the 40G HDD crawls along... But its rarely used so they don't mind. Are the good church going folk not digging deep enough into their pockets? |
plod (107) | ||
| 1359004 | 2013-11-10 01:03:00 | yes, you can't get XP to trim, but you can use certain tools to manually (or set it to use a schedule) send the trim command for all currently deleted files. Why would you bother though, when newer and better OSs do this natively? |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1359005 | 2013-11-10 02:11:00 | why replace what only needs minor tinkering? for most XP installations an upgrade to free linux makes much more sense than upgrading to $150 windows. windows needs to be much cheaper to encourage such upgrades, even then most luddites will continue using existing installations until such time as the hardware needs replacing. windows for $10 would be good. im surprised that microsoft doesnt offer a $10 yearly subscription i put my mum onto xubuntu 13.04 and other than trademe for a time not wanting to see .JPG files (would only see .jpg files, trademe resolved this eventually) she has had no trouble doing what she uses it for. facebook, facebook games, email, trademe, banking - these tasks will run fine on an OS produced since the turn of the mellenium. chilling i'm being very moderate in the expression of my ideas. |
Mirddes (10) | ||
| 1359006 | 2013-11-10 02:31:00 | yes, you can't get XP to trim, but you can use certain tools to manually (or set it to use a schedule) send the trim command for all currently deleted files. Intel drives do so with the intel SSD Toolbox, and there is a tool called wiper.exe works with indilinx chipset drives (sold by a variety of manufacturers) set it to do a free space trim every week. shouldn't be much of a problem if only the OS, settings and application are stored on the SSD while documents, videos, photos etc are stored on a magnetic storage device. a hybrid drive may be a better suggestion for older hardware and XP as the SSD is invisible to the OS/user LOL - Do you do a lot of copy/pasting when "writing" your informative posts? forums.anandtech.com (was posted there 04-04-2010) |
bevy121 (117) | ||
| 1359007 | 2013-11-10 03:22:00 | why replace what only needs minor tinkering? XP, minor tinkering :lol: It's 12 years old now, time to move on to something from this decade. |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1359008 | 2013-11-10 04:10:00 | XP, minor tinkering :lol: It's 12 years old now, time to move on to something from this decade. Looks like you're a goner too. ;) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1359009 | 2013-11-10 04:17:00 | Looks like you're a goner too. ;) You should have gone many decades ago in that case. ;) |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
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