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Windows xp vs vista vs 7?

epicanthony76's Avatar epicanthony766/30/15 4:44 pm
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7/7/2015 3:29 pm
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My cousin wanted a laptop so I gave him my old one. He's 7 and wants to run minecraft and such but the performance just kills me. Its a Toshiba A135-S23836.
Specs
Intel Pentium dual core processor T2080
512MB memory
ATI Radeon Xpress 200M 128M

It runs on vista, but I'm wondering if XP or windows 7 will run better. I read that XP is better than Vista but its outdated.
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07/07/2015 3:29 pm
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supernotch893 You'd be lucky if you can even boot Windows Vista


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06/30/2015 10:36 pm
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I use window xp. It is wonderful and has lasted me for 6 years.
It's just some programs don't support it like paint.net, but that's for if you want to draw, you can just use paintSAI
I highly recommend Window 7
You will have a lower chance of getting viruses
But the best is...
MAC PRO
Good graphic card, big memory, and easy to carry.
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06/30/2015 10:13 pm
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RaciSt_EndeRman
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I use a XP I am getting a gaming one soon.My XP get's 40-60 fps because I did some stuff with the java I added ram try adding ram to the Minecraft launcher.
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06/30/2015 9:58 pm
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Intel Pentium dual core processor T2080
512MB memory
ATI Radeon Xpress 200M 128M

That will never properly run Minecraft.
Ever.
Trash that piece of crap laptop and get real laptop.
Get a Windows 7 laptop with at least 4 GB of memory. Or even better, 8.

Surprise it runs minecraft at around 30fps. Like I said in the post, its an old laptop I gave to my 7 year old cousin to play minecraft, not to run BF4.
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06/30/2015 9:17 pm
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epicanthony76
Intel Pentium dual core processor T2080
512MB memory
ATI Radeon Xpress 200M 128M

That will never properly run Minecraft.
Ever.
Trash that piece of crap laptop and get real laptop.
Get a Windows 7 laptop with at least 4 GB of memory. Or even better, 8.
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06/30/2015 8:39 pm
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supernotch893
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That's one pretty old potato you listed. You'd be lucky if you can even boot Windows Vista (XP is rather usable on 1/2 gig of ram.) or play MC. Heck, there are ZERO games that will run on anything with less than 4gb of ram and still be playable (I got a potato with 1.5gb of usable ram and mc was unplayable) but your milage may vary. I wouldn't play on that laptop doe...dat gpu and ram count... if it's under 4096MiB (or Windows MB), it isn't worth using.
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06/30/2015 8:52 pm
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epicanthony76
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Well I installed optifine, tweaked it alot and a surprise! It runs at around 35-60 fps on superflat, and 25-45ish on normal. With exceptions of random pauses/studdering its very playable.
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06/30/2015 8:44 pm
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Oh, speaking about which, my cousin (surprisingly) able to play Minecraft on just 64 MB of physical memory and 3 GB of Virtual memory set with a page file setting on a Packard Bell 7950C with an Intel Celeron 400 MHz with Windows 98, I was surprised he could legitimately play MC on it! Almost always if you tried playing Minecraft, (or most newer games), it would usually not work out that good

==On topic part==
I would think Windows 7 is definitely better than Vista.
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Also, supernotch, you said "Windows MB", you must've meant "Windows ME"? And, the computer I just mentioned, that was also definitely an Old Potato. Running successfully with ABSOLUTELY NO MAINTENANCE/REPAIR NEEDS of any way, (except for some software problems) since 2000.
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07/07/2015 2:35 pm
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supernotch893
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Oh no, I don't mean Windows ME. I said Windows MB because the way Windows registers a megabyte is different than 98% of other OSes out there (M$ thinks a megabyte is 1024 kilobytes, and a kilobyte is 1024 bytes, and so on, and other operating systems, say OSX or Ubuntu, will say a megabyte is 1000KB.)
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06/30/2015 7:39 pm
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You can still use Windows XP but I wouldn't due to the fact that they no longer give service for that OS.
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06/30/2015 8:10 pm
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Neither Windows 7 nor XP are supported.
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06/30/2015 8:25 pm
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Windows XP is not longer supported, Windows Vista is losing support on April 11, 2017, and Windows 7 is losing support on January 14, 2020.

If you peoples would like more info on support Go Here
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06/30/2015 8:36 pm
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forgot about you
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That is extended support, which the average user doesn't necessarily have.
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06/30/2015 8:43 pm
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The Average user does, any user has it, business, enterprise, home. When in extended support all there is, is security updates. When Extended support ends, thats it for updates, for everyone running that OS, no more.
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06/30/2015 7:59 pm
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Dr_Steve
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Oh! Somewhere on the Internet, it said that exceptions exist; some versions of XP Embedded (for example POS Ready (for Point of Sales systems (such as cash registers))) are still supported for a bit more, or unless you have some special support plan.

PS: Windows Server 2003 support is ending on July 14
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06/30/2015 5:48 pm
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Killertoad
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You're not going to get much better performance on that laptop. The best thing you can do is install a lightweight version of Linux or Ubuntu and hope it runs better.
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06/30/2015 5:56 pm
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deepin is lighter and faster than ubuntu
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06/30/2015 5:06 pm
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