Facts of life. Win XP is as strong in business now as it was ~10
years ago. Particularly when optimized for performance and the
"classic" start screen is used (so as to make it look like windows
2000) Our machines at work are XP, and there is no interest in
moving. We just loaded orifice 2003 on a couple machines today.
Again, it works fine. Not as quirky as orifice 2007. Being EOL, M$
is not as anal about their fees as they are with the latest. Not
many businesses on Win 7 or 8. More likely to go penguin than
support Bill's old age. We buy used hardware for $30 to $50. Keeps
the IT budget in line.
If I were looking for a winders laptop, I'd be looking for XP
compatibility too.
That said, for an XP laptop, my choice is a Macbook. Use the mac for
most things then run XP with bootcamp or as a VM for what you need to.
I have been running that way for several years. Last 2 years, no xp.
once in a while I wish I had it, but never enough to feel it is woth
the time to load on my VM on the macbook. Remember when the macbook
came out, it was the fastest Winders laptop, either bare or with
bootcamp. SWMBO had a hard drive die a year ago on the very first
edition of white Macbook. What's that? 7 years old now? My early
macbook unibody had a fan go out last year. Still not bad for 5
years or whatever it is.
I do freely admit that I have winxp machines available for the times
I really need xp. Otherwise, I'd have broken down and installed it
with bootcamp or the VM.
I have over 30,000 clients running XP, which are being replaced with
Windows 7 machines at the rate of about 5,000/year. At that rate I
will be all in on Windows 7 when Windows 8 is approaching end of
life.
Say what you want, but XP has been good for us from an enterprise
standpoint. 7 is OK but has its quirks.
And we are finally moving to DFS! Hallelujah! No more drive mapping!
Dan who is migrating a file server right now courtesy of Robocopy
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On Jan 24, 2013, at 7:46 PM, Rick Knoble <rickkno...@hotmail.com> wrote:
On Jan 24, 2013, at 11:00 AM, "M G" <trainpain2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Yes I know that linux of some flavor or another may be
installable but I have some older programs that require no later
then XP in order to run. No I don't want to run XP in a virtual
machine under linux or win7 as that is to me just too cumbersome.
My thought is to see if anyone knows of a laptop that I can look
for that has drivers for XP and will allow XP to be installed. I
would prefer one that runs at 2+ ghz, has all the normal plugin
possibilities, and will take a 6 gig drive or bigger. I don't need
a huge screen and don't really like the keyboards that have a
numeric keypad added in the right of the normal keyboard as I
don't use it and it puts the keyboard off center and it feels
wrong.
So there it is. I would be grateful for any suggestions.
Ugh. Windows XP is almost at the end of its life cycle. All new
computers that are Windows based are shipping with Windows 8, which
is three generations newer than XP. You are hanging on to an
obsolete operating system. Windows 7 will run most XP programs in
"XP mode" I believe.
A Lenovo T-60 or T-61 would fit your needs nicely. As would a Dell D-630.
I run Linux. Much like Apple products "it just works". I do have
to boot into Windows soon though, TurboTax doesn't make a Linux
version.
Rick
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