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Well that's ridiculous that Microsoft should be expected to continue patching a 13 year old OS. When I bought a laptop in 2009, it was running Vista and I think
by gareim 13y ago
Well that's ridiculous that Microsoft should be expected to continue patching a 13 year old OS. When I bought a laptop in 2009, it was running Vista and I think most/all computers being sold were running Vista for some time by then. That was five years ago. Regardless, after that long, you can expect to have to upgrade.
You can complain about how perfectly working electronics are made obsolete, but the world moves on and I think it moved on at a reasonable pace.
- jonathansizz 13y agoI bought an XP laptop 4.5 years ago, not 13 years ago. This 13 years that people keep mentioning is a red herring.
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- gareim 13y agoShould have not bought an obsolete product. Assuming you wanted to use that laptop for ~4 years, did you really want to lock in with a laptop running an outdated OS with so many security holes? If you wanted XP for your job, might as well have gotten a Windows 7 machine (or Vista if 7 wasn't exactly out then, since your timeline places you near the release date) and ran XP on VirtualBox.
- jonathansizz 13y agoI just use it for web browsing, email and presentations. I'll be switching to Samsung's new Chromebook 2 next month.
- gareim 13y agoHey, nice! I have the first gen Chromebook and I think it was a great purchase. The only thing I don't like is that it stutters on YouTube/flash videos occasionally, but I think gen 2 might not have any problems with that. You can also look into the Acer C720 if you haven't already, as that one has an x86 processor (useful if you need a Linux distro with gcc) and is significantly cheaper.
- jonathansizz 13y agoI've been waiting for a Chromebook with good build quality, nice screen and decent internals (that doesn't cost $1300!), and it looks like the 13" Chromebook 2 will have all of those. The timing will also be perfect, considering XPs EOL.