Does it make any sense to upgrade to Windows 10 from Vista or buy a new PC?

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I have an older PC (2009) with the Vista operating system.

Current system:

Dell Studio XPS 435T 64 Bit
Intel quad core i7 960 (8 MB L3 Cache @ 2.67 gHz)
1 TB SATA 2 7200 RPM 32 MB
9 GB DDR3 SDRAM
NVidia GeForce 7900 GTO

I think that it will handle the new OS with no problem but I would like some more opinions from someone with more knowledge of these things. I'm not an expert so try to keep the conversation fairly simple. I understand it will be easier to buy another machine but if what I have will work then maybe upgrading the OS will be just fine. I guess what I'm looking for is what could give me problems if I decide not to replace and what would be the benefits of replacing.

Thanks in advance,
LJ
 
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Your hardware is perfectly suited for 7 IMO. Dell even offers drivers for win7 64bit and thats a green light in my book.
Honestly though, if Vista is getting what you need done, then spending $100 for 7 would have me mulling it over for days. I'd have to find reason for changing. Back then, for me it was games that no longer would run on vista/xp
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Thanks popatim,
Whether I go to windows 7, 8 or 10, would it make any sense to do that with my hardware? I have to do something because it's problem after problem with Vista. It seems like there's always something especially since there hasn't been any support for Vista in years. Nothing works with it anymore...we've had to switch internet browsers because none of them work right with Vista anymore.
 
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Your hardware is perfectly suited for 7 IMO. Dell even offers drivers for win7 64bit and thats a green light in my book.
Honestly though, if Vista is getting what you need done, then spending $100 for 7 would have me mulling it over for days. I'd have to find reason for changing. Back then, for me it was games that no longer would run on vista/xp
 
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The only reason I upgraded from Vista to Win 7 was to avoid all the updates on a fresh install of windows (in 2012). That advantage no longer applies as I expect the number for both operating systems is pretty close now. Win 10 will only ever have a few in comparison, there is a monthly cumulative update that I assume may get rather big for fresh installations eventually but that makes me wonder what version is on the retail/OEM USB and how often its updated.

I liked vista but then my system came with it installed and was good enough to run it on release. I only upgraded it when it felt too slow last year.

My parents pc is slower than my old machine that I was talking about above (and slower than yours), and yet it works fine on Win 10. If I bought 10 now, I would get retail version so you can use it on multiple computers instead of being tied to the one pc forever - you can only have it one machine at a time but you can swap the install if you got a new pc.

I would buy an SSD, that would make biggest difference to that system.
 
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Win 7 & Vista are very similar, so there is that. They didn't change much going from vista to win 7. At that stage, just swapping the name was almost enough to get people to buy it. His pc would have no trouble on win 7 apart from all the initial updates, make an image at end of the installs and never have to do it again.
 
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