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Originally Posted by HansTWN
I think most of you are comparing apples and oranges. What takes 30 minutes on a 5-year-old PC often takes less than a minute on a new PC. I never had to wait on any update on my latest PC. And with Windows 8 even a complete reboot is just a matter of seconds. MS has also learned to group updates. And the first time you get a new PC you get to decide update behaviour (can be easily changed later, of course).
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Those are valid points, Hans, and I might yet upgrade to 8.1. But too many friends (particularly a producer I work with) have insisted that, for my uses, Windows 8 is inadvisable at this stage.
I seem to have been unclear about the hardware involved.
My Windows 7 machine is a "modern PC" in the sense that it's fast (or was as of 2012). It's my netbook that is the throwback, and the only reason it's running XP is because that iteration is lighter and therefore more compatible with the deliberately under-spec'd processor.