Well against all recommendations I did it. I upgraded from XP to Vista... It really was not bad at all. I had to locate 2 drivers myself, but that was it. The only program that had a challenging number of service packs, patches and upgrades to install was Visual Studio 2005.The machine is a late 2004 emachines with 2GB of Ram, an upgraded video card (256MB PNY of some cheap model number(nVIDIA GeoForce 6600? I can't remember what was on sale at Tiger Direct )) and a newer power supply. The processor is an AMD AthlonXP 3000+ 2.17 GHz.
So far I really like it. My computer actually seems a bit faster. Probably because I did a clean installation and the registry is probably a lot more nimble now. The interface is really slick. It kind of reminds me of the PowerMacs with OS something or another I used a couple of years ago in an applied computer graphics course I took.
...and for once wallpaper I like came installed.
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Gz, your emachine puts my normal machine to shame. Of course I haven't actually upgraded in about four years, and I got low end of the tech curve when I did upgrade. I guess I've just found I don't need that much raw processing power for day to day operations and I'm not playing a lot of games these days (and the ones I do play are older and don't require the latest and greatest hardware).
The main reason for the upgrades was video processing. This machine is still relatively inadequate for that. Sometimes I can read a book while converting a lecture into a Flash-based presentation :-)
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