Switching from xp should I.

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Cat lady

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Now xp meeting my needs but cohorts keep advising me to upgrade. I dunno?
Do lots of video editing and office stuff. Need the flexibility to copy my own purchased music and movies to take to vacation place where they end up being used as drink coasters and frisbees. Will I have same flexibility with win 7?
Thanks and happy bunny !



 
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gitano

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Its hard to go wrong on Windows 7, probably the best OS microsoft as made till today.

If you do lots of video editing i suppose you have at least 2 GB ram or more, i think you should upgrade.

 
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RetiredChief

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Win 7 is all-around better than XP. The only BIG negative in switching is that uSoft decided to play "world cop" and included DRM code to save the world from Movie pirates (Vista was first OS to include). Much like gun control - Does Nothing to prevent the Bad guys from doing bad things, Just makes us "good" guys jump thru more hoops. LOL

I do not do music, but do copy (convert format) my DVDs and put on Thumb drives/SD cards for play back when away from home either on my 17" laptop or my Asus TF700 Tablet. Has NOT been a problem
 
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well I did it.. do I like it. yes. my old computer, a Intel bad ax. 975xbx2 mobo, with 8 mb ram, and a nvidia 285 gpu. Intel 2. 4 cpu, quad, runs like a champ. I bought 64 version ultimate win 7.
when I put this computer together some time ago, I had vision of more power hungry software coming down the road. the fact is I had a hard drive failure which I discovered myself after taking the computer to a computer specialist and paying losts of money only to have the same failure. chkdsk is a wonderful thing. problem solved. since I had an OEM copy of win xp media center I was forced to dive in. bottom line. do I like yes, but I cant find a lot of stuff yet. I am now crazy about cmd prompt hardhware wiz. buts that's how it goes. thanks for your answers.
 
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