What is an acceptable time frame for leaving hardware behind? On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 5:32 AM, John Duncan Yoyo <johnduncany...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall < > popoz...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > > It is called a forced Hardware Upgrade > > > > This happens with MS releases also, although they do go further back than > > Apple does. > > > > I still have an old laptop that I could not install ME on as it was not a > > fast enough processor (I am not sure it would even install 98SE.) > > > > I have a couple of machines at home that will not take 7 as they are > below > > the 1 GB processor threshold. > > > > Apple and MS both do this to make sure people do not complain that it > makes > > their systems run like a dog not realizing that the hardware was never > > designed for it to begin with. > > > > Stewart > > > I have no problem with older to ancient hardware not being able to run > modern operating systems that is what LINUX is for. I can't see many sane > people complaining that they can't run WIN7 on an old 386. My old HP > Pavillion is going on 5 years old and barely runs WIN7 but most of the real > problems seem to be running iTunes which soaks up all the processor time it > can get on this box. It ran just as slowly on XP. > > -- > John Duncan Yoyo > -------------------------------o) > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
