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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Gregg - whatever you do, get Win10 Professional. It provides better control over Windows Updates, especially the twice yearly 'Feature Updates'. I defer them until 60 days after release to enterprise customers - which is normally about 3-5 months after Home users get it thrust upon them.
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I concur. The nice thing about the free upgrade offer was that I was upgrading from Win7 Pro and the free upgrade got me Win10 Pro.
I would not willingly run Win10 Home.
(The good stuff in Pro is in Group Policy Manager, that does not exist in Home.)
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As Dennis wrote the main thing with refurbished computers is 'Will it run Windows 10'. My ex-employer had to wait for several thousand laptops and desktops to reach end-of-5yr-lease before they could start migrating to Windows 10.
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A machine running Win7 shoud run Win10, too. The hardware requirements haven't really increased. The question is how well if will run.
My old Dell SFF box came with Win7 Pro and got upgraded to Win10 Pro. Win10
did technically run, and only seeing two of teh four cores in the Dell's Xeon CPU was the most visible limitation.
But I commented back after transitioning that it was New and different Win10 BSODs. Collect the whole set!" because I was. I was able to tweak the config to solve the most pressing issues, but it was still not a happy experience overall.
The HP SFF box I use now has been a
lot better. I still see BSODs - DPC Watchdog Violation and Kernel Security check - the usual ones. But overall things are much improved, and and I can only conclude the Dell box simply had inadequate hardware support.
If you do buy one of the NewEgg boxes, your first step is making sure the drivers are all current and you have the current BIOS/UEFI revision.
I would also add more RAM. Win10 will technically run in 4GB, but it's much happier with 6GB or better. As mentioned, I have 8GB expandable to 32GB, but I've seen no current need to expand from what I have.
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Dennis