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    XP or W7? (Toshiba A135)

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Pluberus, May 31, 2010.

  1. Pluberus

    Pluberus Notebook Evangelist

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    I have an old Toshiba A135 that I gave to my brother. He primarily uses it for low-end gaming (Guild Wars, etc).

    It currently has Windows 7 on it, but I'm wondering if I should go ahead and put XP back on it to maximize its performance (XP doesn't use much CPU or RAM)

    1.76 GHz Dual Core
    ATI Radeon Xpress 200M Graphics Chipset

    EDIT:
    After doing some more reading, it seems that W7 outperforms XP even on old hardware. I think I'll leave it, but I'd still like your input! :D
     
    Pluberus, May 31, 2010
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  2. stealthl

    stealthl Notebook Consultant

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    Windows 7 Ultimate runs flawlessly and fast on my wife's Toshiba A135. I even have it running on my old Toshiba Satellite P35-S609 with P4 3.2.
     
    stealthl, May 31, 2010
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  3. Joel

    Joel coffeecoffeecoffeecoffee

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    Yeah, keep Windows 7, I also had Ultimate running on my laptop, and an old P4 2.8GHz desktop FLAWLESSLY! I found XP ran better on my laptop though.
     
    Joel, May 31, 2010
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  4. Amnesiac

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    That's funny, because the specs of my secondary (5600GT) are quite similar to your 3600G, and it ran quite slow. Not very snappy at all. XP outperforms it by a fair bit.
     
    Amnesiac, May 31, 2010
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  5. benbeck08

    benbeck08 CCNA/A+ In Progress

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    If you are totally geared towards squeezing everything out of it, go for xp. imo I would stay with 7 though. It is a great OS
     
    benbeck08, May 31, 2010
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