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I'm still pissed about Microsoft Office being an annual subscription.
install an older version? it's office, what new features are they going to add to Word or Excel? I'm still using Word 2002.
I'm still pissed about Microsoft Office being an annual subscription.
I think all of Microsoft's products, including Windows 10, are moving towards being products you download and buy a subscription or license for, rather than buying a disc from a shop.I'm still pissed about Microsoft Office being an annual subscription.
I think all of Microsoft's products, including Windows 10, are moving towards being products you download and buy a subscription or license for, rather than buying a disc from a shop.
Any software that I buy, I still prefer to buy it on disc. I can't speak for other people. It feels more like you own it, if you have a disc.No one buys Windows on a disc from the shop, what is this the year 2001?
Any software that I buy, I still prefer to buy it on disc. I can't speak for other people. It feels more like you own it, if you have a disc.
Yeah, but will the keys always work (if it's online activation)?You own your keys.
Yeah, but will the keys always work (if it's online activation)?
I'm not sure how Windows breaks down? Or grinds to a halt? This sounds like old person whining because they installed 20 toolbars, countless programs, a desktop covered in shortcuts and a hard drive that's on it's last 1gb of space.
None of that stuff is necessary anymore, with WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.
I built a tower for my parents in 2007 or so. It originally had XP, and I maintained it and made sure they weren't doing stupid shit like installing toolbars and whatnot. Once it started to slow down, I upgraded it to Windows 7, which was pretty good; it didn't slow down like XP used to. When I personally used XP, I'd have to reinstall every few years. As 7 got garbled up (again, not too bad, but you get none of this on macOS) I added more RAM - I think two sticks of 8GB. They were concerned about security stuff now that 7 is being retired so I just upgraded to 10 which seems like a huge pain in the ass. I messed around with it and don't like it at all. It's slow as fuck, but that may be because it's on a 12-year-old system (it was beefy when I built it), but aside from that, it's just not intuitive to use. XP and 7 made sense as long as you were familiar with Windows. With 10 it takes me a while to find what I'm looking for, mapping the network drive was next to impossible, blah blah.
Also, I bought an Alienware Alpha several years ago, which came with Windows 8. That shit never ran well, and it was such a turnoff that I ended up barely using the computer. I wish I had an external drive and some 7 discs so I could wipe it and downgrade. The Windows 8 install has gotten even worse. Every time I turn it on, it takes about 12 minutes to load, requires a ton of updates, and takes hours to turn off while it performs the updates.
I've had none of these problems with OS X / macOS, but like I said, I don't care what other people use. If Windows works for you, use that.
For a start this 2007 machine had a HDD and not an SSD so that's 90% of the problem and then you upgraded to Win7 which upped the system requirements on what would've been a 3 year old machine by then. To top it off you erroneously tried running Win10 on this same machine. I feel for your parents and you for wasting so much time, you could have bought an SSD in 2011 or so, wacked on Win7 and called it a day. No more defragging, no more seek times etc SSD's really do solve a lot of these issues.
So you’re saying that Windows PCs need SSD in order to compete with MacBook pros? Makes sense.
Buy from the neostore!
For a start this 2007 machine had a HDD and not an SSD so that's 90% of the problem and then you upgraded to Win7 which upped the system requirements on what would've been a 3 year old machine by then. To top it off you erroneously tried running Win10 on this same machine. I feel for your parents and you for wasting so much time, you could have bought an SSD in 2011 or so, wacked on Win7 and called it a day. No more defragging, no more seek times etc SSD's really do solve a lot of these issues.
So you’re saying that Windows PCs need SSD in order to compete with MacBook pros? Makes sense.
Buy from the neostore!
Uh, actually, I upgraded to an SSD when I installed Windows 7.
Get a M.2 SSD if you board supports it. Windows 10 boots in under ten seconds for me.
I'm thinking my motherboard doesnt support this since it's about 5-6 years old but how does someone clone their solid state to one of these. I use a Startech hard drive duplicator.
You'd have to get an NVMe to SATA adapter board and then you could use it in the HDD duplicator.
Go and buy HyperDock. Problem solved.Really, the only feature I'm jealous of is how you can split windows and snap them to each side of the screen.
Go and buy HyperDock. Problem solved.
Ok got it. Going to peek inside my pc later and see if I have the slots.
You probably won't have one if your board is really that old. The M.2 slot is usually located near the PCI Express slots.