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    #21
    Re: Windows 10 on a toughbook

    i like win2k, the best thing is you can make the CD explode in a 52speed drive. (hub micro-cracks from bad manufacturing)

    i have "blown" 3 so far!!

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      #22
      Re: Windows 10 on a toughbook

      Originally posted by canadaboy25 View Post
      I still prefer Windows 2000....
      right? i still have a VM around here somewhere.

      Originally posted by stj View Post
      i like win2k, the best thing is you can make the CD explode in a 52speed drive. (hub micro-cracks from bad manufacturing)

      i have "blown" 3 so far!!
      tell me how!
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        #23
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        Originally posted by canadaboy25 View Post
        I still prefer Windows 2000....
        If there were an x64 bit version, I'd still love it too! The only 64 bit version was for the Itanium processor.
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          #24
          Re: Windows 10 on a toughbook

          Originally posted by stj View Post
          6gig!
          linux runs with only 1!!!
          Soo QFT!
          I wouldn't be surprised if even Debian Jessie still uses less RAM than Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8x!
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            #25
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            Originally posted by RJARRRPCGP View Post
            Soo QFT!
            Except that its not quite true...........
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              #26
              Re: Windows 10 on a toughbook

              Originally posted by goontron View Post
              tell me how!
              if you have an original 2k disk, just make a drive spin it as fast as possible - eventually you will her a loud bang and a clattering sound as the bits fly around inside the drive.

              a good way to spin one is to get a cd copier program to dump the disc to an iso file over and over again.

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                #27
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                Originally posted by Topcat View Post
                Except that its not quite true...........
                What do you mean? LOL.
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                  #28
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                  Originally posted by RJARRRPCGP View Post
                  What do you mean? LOL.
                  The bogus statement that windows can't run on 1gb of RAM and linux can. Neither OS will be spectacular on 1GB RAM, but its very do-able. I've put W7 SP1 on quite a few laptops with 1gb, runs fine. A good clean install, turn off all the un-needed crap, it idles around 300~400mb.
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                    #29
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                    Originally posted by Topcat View Post
                    The bogus statement that windows can't run on 1gb of RAM and linux can. Neither OS will be spectacular on 1GB RAM, but its very do-able. I've put W7 SP1 on quite a few laptops with 1gb, runs fine. A good clean install, turn off all the un-needed crap, it idles around 300~400mb.
                    This.
                    A modern mainstream distro of Linux will work on a PIII with 192MB RAM and a 20GB IDE HDD. It just won't be usable.

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                      #30
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                      Originally posted by Topcat View Post
                      If there were an x64 bit version, I'd still love it too! The only 64 bit version was for the Itanium processor.
                      That's exactly what what I think. If there were a 64bit version that supported my hardware, I'd be golden!

                      My favorite part is the old boot up screen!
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                        #31
                        Re: Windows 10 on a toughbook

                        Originally posted by mockingbird View Post
                        That's its achille's heel. Though I'd imagine that the amount of XP enthusiasts who would actually need an SSD would be in the 10%. You said 'inbuilt', are you aware of 3rd party solutions for XP? I'm pretty sure this is something that has to be handled by the OS itself...
                        I ran XP on a Samsung 840 SSD a while ago for a period of about 6 months or so (and yes, it was insanely fast). I used the Samsung SSD Magician software to manually trim it once every couple of weeks. It only does Samsng SSDs, though. I think Intel may have a similar toolkit for their drives, but I don't know of anything that will trim all brands.
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                          #32
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                          What about garbage collection?
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                            #33
                            Re: Windows 10 on a toughbook

                            AFAIK, Garbage collection is done by the SSD itself, independently of the OS. It performs a similar function to TRIM, but when used without the TRIM command, it is slower and uses extra write cycles.

                            see http://www.thessdreview.com/daily-ne...an-ssd-primer/ for more info
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                              #34
                              Re: Windows 10 on a toughbook

                              Originally posted by c_hegge View Post
                              AFAIK, Garbage collection is done by the SSD itself, independently of the OS. It performs a similar function to TRIM, but when used without the TRIM command, it is slower and uses extra write cycles.

                              see http://www.thessdreview.com/daily-ne...an-ssd-primer/ for more info
                              Thanks for the info. So manual TRIM... Kind of like how defrag was pretty essential back in the day.

                              Just to show XP64 is no slouch, here's IE Chalkboard Demo in Chromium 289994 (38.02125.0):



                              I'd like to see if newer systems with a fancy new OS can beat this. I'm only running a quad-core Xeon underclocked to 2.1GHZ.

                              Unfortunately, this is probably the last Chromium build that has full GPU support on XP. Later versions give a "GPU unable to boot error". This is a late August 2014 build, so it should be good for a few years.
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                              "We have offered them (the Arabs) a sensible way for so many years. But no, they wanted to fight. Fine! We gave them technology, the latest, the kind even Vietnam didn't have. They had double superiority in tanks and aircraft, triple in artillery, and in air defense and anti-tank weapons they had absolute supremacy. And what? Once again they were beaten. Once again they scrammed [sic]. Once again they screamed for us to come save them. Sadat woke me up in the middle of the night twice over the phone, 'Save me!' He demanded to send Soviet troops, and immediately! No! We are not going to fight for them."

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                                #35
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                                98.88 seconds on a Core i3-2330M, Windows 7 x64, and Firefox 35.0.1

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                                  #36
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                                  Originally posted by lti View Post
                                  98.88 seconds on a Core i3-2330M, Windows 7 x64, and Firefox 35.0.1
                                  about:config, then set "layers.acceleration.force-enabled" to true.

                                  I also use Firefox primarily, but 36 Beta broke Flash, and I'm waiting for a fix.
                                  "We have offered them (the Arabs) a sensible way for so many years. But no, they wanted to fight. Fine! We gave them technology, the latest, the kind even Vietnam didn't have. They had double superiority in tanks and aircraft, triple in artillery, and in air defense and anti-tank weapons they had absolute supremacy. And what? Once again they were beaten. Once again they scrammed [sic]. Once again they screamed for us to come save them. Sadat woke me up in the middle of the night twice over the phone, 'Save me!' He demanded to send Soviet troops, and immediately! No! We are not going to fight for them."

                                  -Leonid Brezhnev (On the Yom Kippur War)

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