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F*O*A*D

On 3/31/14, 2:49 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 14:34:48 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 3/31/14, 11:47 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 07:53:17 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 3/31/14, 1:26 AM, wrote:

You are mentally limiting what others might do by what you might do.
Some like the Colt round and pistol for nostalgic reasons, I'd bet. I
know I do.

... and you say I am the dinosaur

You like obsolete computers and operating systems. There's nothing
obsolete about a .45 Colt round; it still does the job, and against
modern adversaries. It's not like trying to run complex, contemporary
software in a decades old computer with a decade old OS.

My OS is not obsolete, for all the same reasons.

What will W/8 do that I can't? (Apple too for that matter)

I don't stay down to speed, as it were, on XP or the computers on which
it runs. I suppose I could run XP on my iMac but why would I want to do
that?

Andy Grove and Bill Gates summed it up. Bill wrote software to sell
Grove's new hardware. A perfect storm of planned obsolescence.
I am surprised an anti-corporation guy like you falls for it.
The only reason you need more speed is because the bloated software
needs it. A clean XP machine runs as fast as a W/8 machine. It is just
not dragging around an extra gig of software behind it.

If you really want a fast machine, load XP on a machine that was
shipped with W/8 or even 7.
(Like my lap top)

Most "slow" computers are just slowed by the spyware and useless
crapware people get tricked into loading on it.
For the same amount of work you would have to do to move to a new
machine, you could just reload your old one. That is trivial if you
have a good disk image of it when it was clean.

I doubt my MAC OS is as bloated as the typical setup suite on most new
Windoze machines, and I also doubt an obsolete Win XP setup with its old
CPU's, video card, slow drive and limited RAM are going to keep pace.

I'm not aware of any spyware or crapware Apple includes with the OS.
That's much more of a Windoze phenom, eh?

My iMac has a four core i7 CPU, 24 GB's of RAM, a fast video card and a
SSD for its hard drive. I don't think your warp drive XP is going to
transcode videos via Handbrake as quickly as either my desktop or laptop
on OSx.9+

I'm not sure XP has the drivers necessary to operate the hardware on a
contemporary i7 Windoze box.