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rancur on Aug 17, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The increasingly long lives of old Macs

you can get the same life out of a Windows machine if you don't install updates and don't install shady executables.

cptskippy on Aug 17, 2015 [–]

I have a couple netbooks with the latest Windows 7 patches and they run just as bad as they did when I first got them with Windows XP. I've been debating upgrading them to Windows 10...

rancur on Aug 20, 2015 | [–]

try 7 RTM without updates and Opera browser. that was my only config that worked just barely

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