[NFBCS] Windows 7 vs Windows 10

[George]

Tracy,

Windows 7 was designed for older machines with less capacity than newer 
machines.  Windows 10 is designed for newer machines.  If you use 
Windows 10 with an older machine, it should be very slow or not usable, 
or, in some cases, even incompatible because of older hardware and 
drivers not supported on Windows 10. So, it's always advisable to buy a 
newer, faster and more advanced, computer when you upgrade to a new 
system after a long time, I understand.
However, we should be careful.  We should check by ourselves that the 
computer is more advanced and faster and this can depend on the vendor, 
the manufacturer, the drivers and other software, particularly the 
antivirus, used, the real specifications of the machine, the unnecessary 
software running, the errors that can occur due to a bad configuration, 
or low-quality software/hardware, ETC.
Specially for us, because we use screen reading and magnifying software, 
this problem can be more serious.

I think that it might be better to pay a little more and buy a computer 
that lets us work comfortably for 8 or 10 years. One of my friends had 
to buy an expensive machine and he regretted that for a while.  Then he 
bought another computer and, at that time, he chose the computer based 
on its price.  Then, he regretted it, because all the headaches he got, 
caused by the problems with that cheap computer: it never broke down, 
but was slow for unknown reasons, suddenly turned on from the sleeping 
mode, it frequently became unresponsive, ETC.
He says that he will buy an expensive computer next time, because he 
prefers spending more to having headaches all the time.  He says he will 
buy a Fujitsu laptop again, because he wants to work comfortably again 
as before.  He says that some hundreds of dollars more means nothing if 
you consider the comfort you get when you use a high-quality laptop 
every day for about 8 years.

If you're going to buy a new laptop for your husband, maybe you should 
try another store or another maker. Trying another screen reader, 
magnifying application or another antivirus might help, also. Check if 
your laptop has SSD memory, because SSD is much faster than hard discs.

George

On 2020/02/20 0:24, Tracy Carcione via NFBCS wrote:
> Curtis recommends buying a new Windows 10 laptop, and says it will be faster
> than an old Windows 7 machine.
> 
> This has not been my experience at all.  I bought a Dell laptop a few months
> ago, running Win10, and it is ridiculously slow, much slower than my old
> Windows7 desktop.  I even took it to the Microsoft store to see if it was
> set up wrong, but it wasn't.  The store that sold me the laptop said it has
> good memory and would be reasonably quick, but it's totally not.  I don't
> know if it's because of Windows 10, or some other problem, but it's a bitter
> disappointment to me.  Now my husband needs a new computer, too, but I'm
> afraid he'll be as irritated and disappointed as I am.
> 
> Just saying.
> 
> Tracy
> 
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