Re: Upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for $39.99

[John Doe]

"BillW50" <BillW50 aol.kom> wrote:

> XP still works well for being 11 years old.

I have/had some technical problems with Windows XP. For example... X-
Plane 10 takes 5-10 minutes to load.

[BillW50]

On 11/8/2012 11:23 PM, John Doe wrote:
> "BillW50"<BillW50 aol.kom> wrote:
>
>> XP still works well for being 11 years old.
>
> I have/had some technical problems with Windows XP. For example... X-
> Plane 10 takes 5-10 minutes to load.

Wow! I too have X-Plane (v9). And I have only installed it on my XP
machines. Although I have installed other games on my Windows 7/8
machines. Nor have I seen any speed improvement over XP. At best, they
run about the same. At worst, some won't run at all under Windows 8 CP
for example. In a week or two, I'll find out how Windows 8 works with them.

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Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Thunderbird v12.0.1
Centrino Core2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz - 4GB - Windows XP SP2

[John Doe]

BillW50 <BillW50 aol.kom> wrote:

> John Doe wrote:
>> "BillW50"<BillW50 aol.kom> wrote:
>>
>>> XP still works well for being 11 years old.
>>
>> I have/had some technical problems with Windows XP. For
>> example... X-Plane 10 takes 5-10 minutes to load.
>
> Wow! I too have X-Plane (v9). And I have only installed it on my
> XP machines. Although I have installed other games on my Windows
> 7/8 machines. Nor have I seen any speed improvement over XP.

If you want to know what I'm talking about, you can simply
download the X-Plane 10 demo.

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> At best, they run about the same. At worst, some won't run at
> all under Windows 8 CP for example. In a week or two, I'll find
> out how Windows 8 works with them.
>

[BillW50]

On 11/10/2012 4:08 PM, John Doe wrote:
> BillW50<BillW50 aol.kom> wrote:
>
>> John Doe wrote:
>>> "BillW50"<BillW50 aol.kom> wrote:
>>>
>>>> XP still works well for being 11 years old.
>>>
>>> I have/had some technical problems with Windows XP. For
>>> example... X-Plane 10 takes 5-10 minutes to load.
>>
>> Wow! I too have X-Plane (v9). And I have only installed it on my
>> XP machines. Although I have installed other games on my Windows
>> 7/8 machines. Nor have I seen any speed improvement over XP.
>
> If you want to know what I'm talking about, you can simply
> download the X-Plane 10 demo.

Demos are too limited. That is why they are called demos. ;-)

--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Thunderbird v12.0.1
Centrino Core2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz - 4GB - Windows XP SP2

[John Doe]

It's the same with the retail version.

And I'm beginning to wonder if this thing can read.

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BillW50 <BillW50 aol.kom> wrote:

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> On 11/10/2012 4:08 PM, John Doe wrote:
>> BillW50<BillW50 aol.kom> wrote:
>>
>>> John Doe wrote:
>>>> "BillW50"<BillW50 aol.kom> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> XP still works well for being 11 years old.
>>>>
>>>> I have/had some technical problems with Windows XP. For
>>>> example... X-Plane 10 takes 5-10 minutes to load.
>>>
>>> Wow! I too have X-Plane (v9). And I have only installed it on my
>>> XP machines. Although I have installed other games on my Windows
>>> 7/8 machines. Nor have I seen any speed improvement over XP.
>>
>> If you want to know what I'm talking about, you can simply
>> download the X-Plane 10 demo.
>
> Demos are too limited. That is why they are called demos. ;-)
>
> --
> Bill
> Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Thunderbird v12.0.1
> Centrino Core2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz - 4GB - Windows XP SP2
>

[BillW50]

In ,
John Doe typed on Sun, 11 Nov 2012 00:34:06 +0000 (UTC):
> It's the same with the retail version.
>
> And I'm beginning to wonder if this thing can read.

I went over to the X-Plane website and looked over the system specs that
one needs to run it. And it looks like I won't be able to take part in
this little experiment. As my game machines are from 2007 and they just
don't have enough power to pull it off. X-Plane v9 full install was
60GB. I hate to imagine how large v10 would be.

So I am just going to take your word for it. But I guess it does make
sense, since Windows 7/8 are far better at taking advantage of newer
hardware while XP isn't. But then again, newer isn't always better in
all cases.

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Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz - 4GB - Windows XP SP2