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Originally Posted by oracleguy
Fair enough, sorry for misunderstanding what you were trying to say.
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No worries!
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Originally Posted by oracleguy
By the way support for XP will end in 2014. Non-security relates updates have stopped though.
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To be honest, I've never even needed MS support for XP. It's been a great OS to me over the years for ease of use and configuration etc. Anything serious going wrong and I'd just reformat and reinstall
I'm not really bothered about the support ending.
My main machine is now Win7 and yes, I love it! It's a wonderful system, very graphical and easy to use but I only have home premium whereas I've managed to accumulate a few machines and licences with XP Pro that allows terminal services etc (headless machines hooked up only via ethernet) which I simply can't do with 7HP
Thats the only thing I dislike about 7HP - no inbound remote desktop so I have to leave a VNC server running instead.
As a main desktop OS though, I can't beat it. XP was getting a bit boring to be honest although it was rock solid so when I found this machine at a bargin price (brand new, unopened) with keyboard, monitor, mouse etc for under £100 including Win7HP.. I couldn't beat it and snatched the last one off the shelf
It's been the best little machine I've ever had - quietest machine I've had, most powerful (2GHz, 2GB DDR3), smallest, sleekest.. I really can't complain for an emachine
No idea how emachines evern managed the OS at that price yet alone the hardware
As for Windows8.. I'm hearing far more bad stuff than good so I doubt I'm going to even bother with it - It wouldn't boot in VMWare so that was more than enough for me!