First post, by gerwin
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Being kinda lazy in this regard I never felt like upgrading the Sempron/Athlon XP systems I use myself. they work fine for me anyways.
I intended to wait until some new generation of hardware and software would come that would be a good improvement (quantum computer 😉 ), and thereby allow me to skip a lot of generations in between. But now I had to buy a new system for work and was told to just take the latest and greatest hardware. So there I went.
-64-bit CPU+Operating System (WinXP): 2D Cad application + preffered version of 3D Cad application + Email archiving program won't work anymore. Proper x64 Printer driver unavailable.
I was suprised when trying to make a ghost backup: the minimal winXP x64 installation is 6GB!. (I could still boot Dos from a Flash-drive, that was a pleasant suprise.)
-Multi-Core CPU: None of the programs I currently use support this natively.
-Widescreen high-res TFT:
Native resolution makes text small, even when large text is selected. Widescreen aspect not beneficial for showing documents and doubtful for most productive software. Only 3 resolutions selectable that have the same aspact ratio as the screen, of which one is obviously too blurry to use.
-Storage: Still no solid state disks there...
....Well the multi-core 64-bit clash was a unavoidable I think, as that is currently the only physical way to get more speed and memory. The TFT screen seems like it is designed for movies and entertainment, not for business.
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