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RE: Some answers

Posted by Old Listener (A) on September 17, 2011 at 12:14:41

In Reply to: Some answers posted by AbeCollins on September 17, 2011 at 11:15:44:

Thanks for the excellent, detailed reply.

> Yes, having decades of experience with DOS, early Windows 3.x, XP,
> Windows 2000, ...

Me too.

> I am a Mac convert as I feel the Mac is a better general purpose
> personal computer overall.

I consider Macs when I buy the next round of personal PCs. So far, practical reasons have kept me from buying a Mac since the mid 80s.

> Most everyone here seems to feel that obsolete Windows XP is the way
> to go.

Just to be sure that I could go on using XP, I bought a couple of extra copies of XP Pro OEM that haven't been used. I'm pretty sure that my next personal PC will use Win 7 for practical reasons: access to 3 TB hard drives and a better fit for Sandy Bridge or Ivy bridge hardware.

For my dedicated MusicPC, the jury is still out. If I went for an Intel Atom based solution (or an AMD Fusion board), XP would be attractive. I think that support for XP on Intel current and future i3/5/7 hardware will be spotty.

I have W7 on a CULV laptop used for travel and for remote control of JRMC. W7 works but there is no magic for me relative to XP. Tuning W7 to boot fast and run effortlessly on a dedicated MusicPC will take some work and I'm not certain of the outcome. Simple things like UAC dialogs popping up when you play a file on JRMC can be an acute annoyance if you are operating JRMC via its tremote mode on another PC.

I'll use my next personal PC as a testbed to see if W7 can be adequately tuned for use on my dedicated MusicPC.

> I think I have a WD Caviar Blue 5400 rpm disk around here somewhere.

For years, I had no significant inventory of unused parts. When a hard drive filled up, I bought another one and added it. My personal PC has 3 hard drives. When I moved to a new generation of PC hardware, I junked the old stuff as being too small, too slow and too noisy to be useful. Now hard drives and DVD drives routinely last longer than they are useful in my personal PC. I now have a collection of rather useless stuff like a very loud 120 GB USB hard drive and a somewhat quieter 400 GB USB hard drive. They are a bit too good to junk but not much.

Bill




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