Windows 7 upgrade options for cheapest $$?
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Free, legit. Also, I highly recommend a SSD upgrade if you can. Cheap to buy, small amount of work, life-changing performance difference.
Free, legit. Also, I highly recommend a SSD upgrade if you can. Cheap to buy, small amount of work, life-changing performance difference.
IMO yes, especially for anyone coming from windows, or people running it on older hardware. But both are good.
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IMHO, you are really at the end of the expected life of a good biz computer and past the life if it was a cheap model. Do you really want to put time and money into a five year old computer with a hard drive that maybe ready to poop it's bits? I'd look for a new business computer with a solid state drive. Everything will be faster, likely even your wifi. You can get a new Dell, Lenovo or HP mid-range biz computer for $500-something that will last you 4-5 years. $100/year. Say $200/year if you go higher end. How much is your time and files worth if your old computer goes tits up on you?
Full Disclosure: I've have amazing luck with home computers, never had a catastrophic failure. Did have to reinstall Windows 7 once (sort of a pain) and mess around clearing ram connections when old desktop won't boot but nothing that lost me stuff beyond my personal after work times. Not the same luck at all at work with several laptops totally augering in.
My ancient Toshiba 15", aka The Brick, is going to retire next week. I am not look for a biz computer so my shopping and wants list will be different.
They will not run directly on Linux. For office, you could use Libre Office or OpenOffice. Both can read and write office files. Another option is to switch to google docs and sheets.
Outlook is probably going to be a bigger snag, especially if you connect it to a corporate exchange server. My solution is to use the outlook web interface. This works for me because I am a fairly light user of outlook. I don't create a lot of elaborate meetings and spend minimal time reading email.
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Mint is still an Ubuntu distribution so underneath it is exactly the same. It just has a much better user interface.
Good to know. I'm dual booted on my 4 year old hp right now with Ubuntu and Windows. Ubuntu gets used much more often. Next time I'll try Mint.
My 10 year old Samsung updated to Win10 a couple of years ago. It took a while but works just fine. Upgraded the RAM to 16 Gigs beforehand. Use it every day.
Our tax practice PC's were upped to 32 Gigs RAM ans SSD's before upgrading this past fall. Easy squeezey, lemon peezey.
Our tax practice PC's were upped to 32 Gigs RAM ans SSD's before upgrading this past fall. Easy squeezey, lemon peezey.
I like Mint, typically my go to. Been toying with Pop!_OS. I find it’s more user friendly and looks a bit better. Seems a smidge speedier as well. Worth a look.
I also use and like PCLinuxOS, but that community is significantly smaller.
I am at a point where I spend the vast majority of my time in Linux. I only boot to windows to run Turbo Tax or to do some .net coding work.
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Are you sure that boost didn’t come from replacing your 5400 rpm spinning drive with an SSD?
I guarantee you that was because of the SSD, if done at the same time.
Adding more RAM generally won't increase speed. You'd have to be maxing it out for it to do so meaningfully.
