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10% performance hit...or a forced move away from XP...no brainer.(or just dont buy one)
Also creating a market for old,unsold,or used hard drives. 
7 isnt too bad,dont hate it...but it still dosnt do anything XP dosnt on a 5 year old PC...might be more excited about it if I had the hardware to take advantage of it.
Yeah world of techology matches on. Someday the only way to run xp will be in emulators.
[begin rant]
You know...I'm really tired of this "must upgrade" mentality just because some "claimed" better thing comes out...what the hell is it with people? Doesn't anyone think for themselves anymore? 
Is everyone becoming a bunch of lemmings. I must upgrade... 
I must upgrade... I must upgrade... What a bunch of shit!
Oh...I upgraded...so I'm smarter than you! 
What a bunch of goobers!
XP work works perfectly! Deal with it. I don't have to ask it for permission to do anything...I click on something and it just does it. No UAC or anything else stupid like that. Go figure!? 
Actually...they should just do this with everything....each year you should buy a new car...doesn't matter if the old one works...everyone is doing it and so should you! Same thing with tv's...cellphones...microwaves...basically everything electronic. OH....and your yard is looking a bit worn...time for a new yard....why...because everyone is doing it!!!!
Well...if this is the route the powers that be are going to take...time to stock up on hard drives.
[End rant]
Psssst.... 
Don't tell anyone because you know you want to be the first one to get it...but...they are going to come out with something that will really blow away Vista & 7 
That right....you heard it here first. It will make Vista & 7 look like a black & white tv compared to this! It won't work as well as XP...but so what...it's the next best thing! And you know you just gotta have it!
Ok...I'm better now...the meds are kicking in! 
Oh my! A breath of fresh air--somebody actually told the truth for once 
You vote with your wallet, if you wanna keep making Bill Gates rich keep buying every little revision of his operating system he comes out with, I won't. I might add, hard drive technology's time is limited as well, I'm running XP very well off a 512 gb SSD drive and it's a lot faster than my son's windows 7 machine and runs better to boot.
Anything would run better on a 512gig SSD.
Anyone who thinks XP and/or Vista is a better OS than 7 is living in Lala land.
WG I don't know how long it's been since I saw the word "goobers"! I didn't think anybody used it anymore 
Better for who? Neither Vista or 7 run half the emulation programs I use or the old games I play, even on "XP" mode. That's why I dumped it off the brand new machine I bought and reinstalled XP. I don't insist you use it, but don't insist others are idiots because they don't subscribe to your own prejudices.
I've said it before and I'll say it again... XP looks like crap, behaves like crap, is crap. Since the advent of Win 7, anyone still using XP is a froot loop and should be penalised.... except Webgizmos. He has a peculiar and unfortunate mental condition and he can't afford the only meds that truly help control his wacky ideas, idiosyncracies and cravings for Fisher Price facsimilies (XP). Anhow, we forgive him and hope one day his alternative choice of 'med' becomes legal Howver, I digress.
So, back to the penalties for still using XP now that Win 7 is available. First off, I think Windows Update for XP users should include pop up ads for Win 7... initially small ones from the taskbar and getting bigger as users click them off/ignore them. If after a while the slightly bigger ads are ignored, then the next phase should be large ads popping up all over in Internet Explorer, Office applications and even Firefox, just in case. The third stage would be at boot up... as in prior to Windows XP starting, they get a 30 minute infomercial on Win 7 by their most annoying TV/film personality.
But wait, there's more!!! XP users who avoid the 30 minute infomercial by going to make a cup of coffee will be further penalised by constant Win 7 nag screens with their mother-in-law on it.
Except Webgizmos!! His condition goes way beyond Lala land... and it's not his fault. As a kid he fell into a toy box full of Fisher Price stuff and the lid slammed shut. He's had a complex ever since, and now XP is his constant companion/comfort zone cos owning/cuddling Fisher Price toys at his age is too embarrassing.
Seriously now...
Hardly a fair comparison/true indicator when your son's Win 7 is on a regular HDD. It's like comparing apples and oranges! And then you have to consider the other hardware as well. I seriously doubt that your XP would put-perfom your son's Win 7 if both were put through their paces on SSD drives and the same or similar hardware (CPU RAM, etc).
According to several industry experts/critics, Win 7 is up to 20% faster than XP... and at the same stage of development, considerably more stable and reliable.
I love 7. Upgraded because my XP crashed on me (and/or the harddrive, one of the two). I don't miss XP whatsoever.
I guess you're entitled to your opinion, I seem to recall spending 28 months in South Viet Nam fighting for your right to drivel all you want, That 35 yo son likes win 7 because he makes his living as an IT guy for a large organization and they probably wouldn't need an IT guy if they didn't upgrade their machines every couple of years. I'll stick with my own opinion "if it ain't broke don't fix it."
I like Xp and Win 7 ... But Win 7 would be Better if I could have 3 things from XP
1) to move a file, folder, ect. where I want it, in the window a.k.a. the thumbnail Icons... I don't always want it to be alphabetized
or have to hold down CTRL to highlight more then one item
2) space to the right of an open window... top and bottum of the Icons
3) to be able to open .gif in Windows Photo Viewer and NOT Internet Explorer...
oh had to add a 4th one
4) to be able to change the boot skin
If anyone would tell me is their a program like Aida 32 that will work on 7 64bit...
But over all I WOULD NOT GIVE UP MY Win 7 but I still like XP pro it's the 2nd best OS
If they are that old they need emulators....why use XP then?
Win 98....95....heck use the C64 if nostalgia is your thing.
OK, so I have DosBox on my Win7 ....to run some vintage tin..... but I've otherwise had precious few proggies that would work on XP but didn't on 7 64bit ....other than specifics of the 64bit.
Win 7 is the first OS MS has made that even has passing success at preventing me from breaking it. 2K was touted as 'rock solid'.....I broke that one on average 3 times a day.
It got that bad I used the hack of the BSOD to skin the bloody thing....saw it almost more than the damn GUI.....;p
The point that no one has pointed out is the newer hard drive tech would increase the speed over an old drive on XP by about 20%.
That woud be reduced by 10% because of the block size.
End result: By replacing a 5 year old drive on an XP machine with the new tech, you would still see a performace increase of 10%.
Quoting reply #18 (If they are that old they need emulators....why use XP then?
Win 98....95....heck use the C64 if nostalgia is your thing.)
Neither my C-64 or Atari 800 will support my 42" big screen and I can't see well enough to enjoy a smaller screen these days. I have emulators that run both as well as consoles like the 2600 through the Playstation 2 all in one neat package. But the main reason is every time they make a new version of windows, they make it harder to hack it to where I'm comfortable with it. The new version of explorer sucks as does the search for files. You mention win 98 and I preferred it to XP because I could move the hard drive to a completely different machine and it would boot up and configure to suit the new hardware as well as the ability to put the windows directory in a big .zip file to back up the OS. I didn't switch to XP until Service Pack 2 and wouldn't have then if not the 135 gig hd limit (or whatever it was).
Quoting reply #19 (The point that no one has pointed out is the newer hard drive tech would increase the speed over an old drive on XP by about 20%.
That woud be reduced by 10% because of the block size.
End result: By replacing a 5 year old drive on an XP machine with the new tech, you would still see a performace increase of 10%.)
I'm sure eventually, some where down the road, I'll be forced to upgrade, but for right now, XP does what I want it to and I see no reason to learn to live with another OS until then. I'm currently checking out Sun's VitualBox software to see if it works well enough to satisfy my needs for multiple windows operating systems and it's looking pretty good so far. I want to run the computer version of Final Fantasy 7 and 8 and Breath of Fire 4 and Win 98 works best.
Nope.... cos he's so durned good at it! It's his condition, you see... gives him a clear head-start over everyone else.
About the only people who come anywhere near close are Mac/OS-X fanbois... but that's only because Steve (Mr. Smug) Jobs has them brainwashed... into actually believing Mac stuff is far superior because: "We at Apple invented it"
Thing is, Webgizmos didn't need brainwashing! Nope, he's a self-made man... and his psychosis is all his own work.
Um, there is one good reason to upgrade sooner... rather than later. In our latter years (and I'm assuming with a 35 y/o son that you're in yours) our minds aren't as sharp as they once were... the longer you leave it the steeper the learning curve.
Then there's that "bugger it, I forgot what I just learned yesterday" feeling I know so well. That's why I get in early with the betas of new OSes.... to get in a year of learning to be at the same place as the youngsters are the day after it comes out.
Well that pretty much puts the whole thing into the "Well, No Worries Then" catagory doesn't it?
Interesting, my Father who was a casualty of said war would never have called a discussion by people of free will's, drivel. Infact he would have been proud to have fought for thier right to do so in a civil manner.
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