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Laptop going from Windows 7 to XP

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Hello everyone.

So here it is, I just bought a laptop from a friend, it's an ASUS model X53S
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium edition.
CPU: Intel Core i3-2350M
Memory: 6GB
HDD: 500 GB
ODD: DVD Sup.MTI.

I'll receive it in 2 or 3 days, and actually being a big "fan" of Windows XP, I was wondering if it would be a good idea to format this computer to switch it to windows XP, It seems to me that the VISTA and 7 OSes because of their flashy graphical interface, use up more RAM so I figured that with XP I'd have more free RAM?

I'd like your opinions, what do you think of this idea? bad? good? pikachu?
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Re: Laptop going from Windows 7 to XP

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I assume it's a Win 7 64bit, to keep it simple => XP 32bit < 4Go of ram

There is indeed a 64bit version of XP but you're going to cry trying to get it to run properly.

Vista is a huge piece of junk, a rough draft of 7, so I recommend you keep your version of windows which will know how to make use of your 6Go of ram.

I remember the complaints about XP's Playskool interface, so the bling-bling of 7... you could still try the Linux adventure.
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Re: Laptop going from Windows 7 to XP

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Ayatus> First of all, thanks for your reply.
So according to you Windows 7 will already make good use of this PC's capabilities?
actually what scares me is the slowness... I'm the type to take care of my PC doing system restores, disk defragmentation...etc But sometimes it's unavoidable it seems...
However I didn't quite understand the win 64bit or 32 bit thing?
How much ram does Windows 7 alone eat up?
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Basically windows on pc splits into two groups, the 32bit version which only handles 4Go of ram max (a bit less in reality ~3.5Go) and the 64bit version which can handle up to 192Go of ram (for Win 7) but obviously in reality there are other limits (my pc only supports 32Go of ram).
As I'm writing this reply, Win 7 is using 1.95Go of ram of which 500Mo is for firefox.

Concerns about ram are only useful when you have little of it, there with 6Go no big worries for gaming on the laptop.

Windows 7 is remarkably stable (more than XP) and going back to XP given your machine's specs would be a shame.
What else to say, no DX 11 under XP, some laptop hardware won't have a driver or will have a bad driver.
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I agree with ayatus. seven is in the same line as xp. you'd think M$ takes malicious pleasure in messing up every other os ^^'

seven on an ssd, it's a bomb :bat:
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Re: Laptop going from Windows 7 to XP

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Good evening.

Well I already have 2 opinions saying the same thing... it seems it'd be better for me to stay on windows 7 then ^^

thanks for your advice guys (:

If there are other opinions, I'd be happy to hear them!

Thanks for your explanations Ayatus.
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Hi personally stay with your seven unless you have a vista 64 bits because otherwise you can forget your xp

no but stay with seven more stable and you make use of the ram and processor if it's in 64 bits there you go
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Re: Laptop going from Windows 7 to XP

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Hello.

Well actually I don't have it yet, normally soon (tomorrow or the day after)

So I don't know if it's a 32 or 64 bits...

If my windows 7 is a 32 bits is that bad for the PC's hardware configuration?

thanks again for your advice.
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No, 64bit processors are compatible with 32bit but it wouldn't make sense to have a 32bit Windows 7 with 6Go of ram (marketing gets you every time).
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Ayatus> ah I see... well then I'm relieved.

another little question ("seriously he never stops!" lol) how do you check your windows version, if it's 32 or 64 bits?
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Ayatus wrote:No, 64bit processors are compatible with 32bit but it wouldn't make sense to have a 32bit Windows 7 with 6Go of ram (marketing gets you every time).
Yeah ^^' and 6go (4go+2go)... dual channel marketing :?

To know if it's 32 or 64 bit, right click on the "computer" icon then properties.
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Ok got it.

and on XP how do you do it?
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I did it but I don't see where it's written?
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Re: Laptop going from Windows 7 to XP

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Ok it worked I'm on 32bit then lol

it was a windows xp professional window

thanks for the info guys!

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