My Father and I both have older 2010-era Toshiba laptops. They're somewhat outdated but they do everything that we need them to do, which is primarily web browsing, listening to the radio, watching DVDs, and typing emails. We both have desktop computers running Windows 10 which are our primary computing platforms which work great. Both of us really enjoy using Windows 10. Our desktop computers of prior days all used Windows XP, so we pretty much skipped Windows 7 and Windows 8 in the process and went straight to new equipment with Windows 10.
However, since our laptops aren't being used for anything extreme, there really isn't a huge demand to upgrade this hardware quite yet.
As the end of support for Vista looms in just a few months, and how Google Chrome has not been releasing any new updates for Windows Vista for the past few years, I have begun to contemplate the best way to upgrade these systems to a more modern operating system.
The first thought I had was to upgrade both of our laptops to Windows 7, if I was lucky enough to find the operating system in brand new unopened condition. I see plenty of sketchy Windows 7 kits and individual keys being sold on Amazon and eBay, but from my research it seems as if these may eventually be a complete waste of money and time, even if they do cost less than $10 a piece.....
I have also read that Windows 10 is much less of a resource hog compared to Vista, 7, 8, and 8.1. Is this true? Does that mean Windows 10 would work on our old 2010-era laptops? I remember about 10 years ago, my Father had a Gateway laptop that originally came with Windows Millennium Edition. I upgrade it to Windows XP, but the system ran so slowly, that I had to downgrade and then installed Windows 2000 Professional instead, which worked like a charm and was light years ahead of Windows ME. I just won't want to repeat this problem with bogging down our laptops with an operating system that wasn't designed for our older hardware again!
I can't exactly tell you the specs of my Father's laptop, as it isn't here in front of me currently. His is slightly newer than mine and is quite a bit more powerful. I also think that it is running the 64 bit edition of Windows Vista.
All that I can currently confirm with you is that my laptop possesses the following specs:
Windows Vista 32 bit edition SP2
Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 2 ghz processor
3 gb RAM
300 gb hard drive
As I said, my Father's laptop contains specs that are definitely more powerful than mine. More RAM, more processing power, higher capacity hard drive, etc.
I would appreciate YOUR guidance for upgrading the operating system for these laptops. Thanks in advance!
However, since our laptops aren't being used for anything extreme, there really isn't a huge demand to upgrade this hardware quite yet.
As the end of support for Vista looms in just a few months, and how Google Chrome has not been releasing any new updates for Windows Vista for the past few years, I have begun to contemplate the best way to upgrade these systems to a more modern operating system.
The first thought I had was to upgrade both of our laptops to Windows 7, if I was lucky enough to find the operating system in brand new unopened condition. I see plenty of sketchy Windows 7 kits and individual keys being sold on Amazon and eBay, but from my research it seems as if these may eventually be a complete waste of money and time, even if they do cost less than $10 a piece.....
I have also read that Windows 10 is much less of a resource hog compared to Vista, 7, 8, and 8.1. Is this true? Does that mean Windows 10 would work on our old 2010-era laptops? I remember about 10 years ago, my Father had a Gateway laptop that originally came with Windows Millennium Edition. I upgrade it to Windows XP, but the system ran so slowly, that I had to downgrade and then installed Windows 2000 Professional instead, which worked like a charm and was light years ahead of Windows ME. I just won't want to repeat this problem with bogging down our laptops with an operating system that wasn't designed for our older hardware again!
I can't exactly tell you the specs of my Father's laptop, as it isn't here in front of me currently. His is slightly newer than mine and is quite a bit more powerful. I also think that it is running the 64 bit edition of Windows Vista.
All that I can currently confirm with you is that my laptop possesses the following specs:
Windows Vista 32 bit edition SP2
Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 2 ghz processor
3 gb RAM
300 gb hard drive
As I said, my Father's laptop contains specs that are definitely more powerful than mine. More RAM, more processing power, higher capacity hard drive, etc.
I would appreciate YOUR guidance for upgrading the operating system for these laptops. Thanks in advance!
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