Originally Posted by
djk7
I have an old laptop (~4-5 yo) running Vista that had been my daughter's. It was running very slow, taking a long time to load web pages and such. I ran virus and spyware checks, removed a lot of programs, and cleaned up the startup programs, but still didn't run well. For $15 I bit the bullet and did the upgrade, there is a learning curve, but the system browses the web fine now, which is about all I plan to do with it.
This may have been mentioned earlier in the thread, but its getting too long to go back and check now. I just can't remember...but anyways, Microsoft has stated that the hardware requirements for Windows 8 are less than Windows 7, which is also less than those for Vista, so in theory your 4-5yo vista running laptop should run Win8 better.
Also, I noticed in the news a few minutes ago, Microsoft is saying it has sold more than 40 million UPGRADES of windows 8, which is a faster pace than Windows 7, again, according to Microsoft, not me.