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Originally Posted by frahse
I bought a rip roarer Dell in 99 with W97. Went several OS iterations and now have XP, SP3. The computer is slow these days, but fine for a router, and print and file server and with it's huge monitor it is a good for charting. It also has my free very old Web Site Editor that I only use occasionally.
I would use it more, but the hardware/software doesn't seem to support my Chrome Browser and so I have to use Firefox on it.
I much prefer Chrome and find that a Chromebook is what I usually use. I do have (2) 17 inch Window's laptop machines that are my wife's castoffs that I updated to Windows 10.
My old work laptop had a disaster on the motherboard and I decided it wasn't worth fixing.
As you mention above, nothing much is new on the XP update front, though the machine keeps telling me it has 5 updates ready. Nothing changes when they run.
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I misspoke! It was late.
The (2) 17 inch laptops I spoke of were my middle son's castoffs. I bought him computers while he was in college and so he gives me his old ones now, and he never gets anything except 17 inch machines for his financial trading, buying and selling money and the like. I tried giving my younger son one of them after I updated it, but he wants smaller machines. (I think he is trying to get me to buy him one exactly like he wants.) I do usually give him tools for his birthdays and Christmas. I did give him a Fire tablet but he complained about it not having the regular google stuff, and didn't seem to want to learn how to get it himself so I sent it back.
I try to give people fishing poles and tackle, not fish.
My wife's castoffs are my Chromebook and one super 15 inch machine that had a hard drive crash. I could fix it but with all the machines that are running, why bother.