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26 Apr 2024 03:34:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: I got a new 64bit computer!  
From: Mike Horvath
Date: 12 Oct 2020 23:21:58
Message: <5f851d56@news.povray.org>
On 10/8/2020 11:24 PM, Kenneth wrote:
> "Leroy" <whe### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> The first thing I did is put POV 3.7 on it. My first test was 10 times faster
>> than my old computer.
>>
>>   My old computer was dual core running winXp.
> 
> Congratulations! I know the feeling, I had an XP machine before my current (but
> still old) Win 7 box.
>>
>>   I'm not as happy with win10, yet. It relies on the internet to much & the
>> cloud. It has a bunch of crap on it that I'm going to get rid of.
> 
> I'm still not convinced that I need Win 10; I basically don't like its
> radical(?) user-interface changes from XP/7. I'm perfectly happy with Win 7; my
> only gripe with my machine is its limited RAM capability.
>>
>>   The computer itself is fantastic, after I added a 4 Tara bite hard drive. I
>> have enough room to put twice the data on it that the Xp has. It also has 8 gig
>> of memory. So shouldn't worry about having POV use a hard drive as memory. The
>> old computer had a gig of memory and I rarely topped that.
> 
> Well, *just* when you think 8GB is enough... :-P
> 
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> 

I use a program called Start10 to return the Start Menu back to 
something very much like Windows 7's. But yeah I liked Windows 7 overall 
more than Windows 10, though Start10 solves the most major gripe.

Mike


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