Thread: The Epic Battle Between Apple & Google Is All But Over - Who Won?
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Old 05-21-2013, 10:42 AM   #60
MikeB1972
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Originally Posted by PeterT View Post
I think you are being unkind there to Windows laptops. I am certain that if you were to run a circa 2005 Windows Laptop with the SAME O/S and applications as were current when it was shipped, you would have a good level of functionality. The majority of people do NOT look at the requirements for an application or O/S upgrade on those machines, and assume that just because it runs an older version of Windows, and that Microsoft is now actively showing how fantastic the newest version is, that their laptop will be fantastic with the new release.
I've got a few running at work that are that old.
And one at home from the start of 2007 that I got to test Vista (Still running Vista on it as well). Works fine - no problems.
One of my servers at work is from 2002 (running NT4), still going strong, had no problems with it at all.
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