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Old Aug 28, 2014 | 10:44 am
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Originally Posted by BigLar
I've sung the song before, so here goes again: don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you need in a computer and what you do with it is the norm and everybody is the same. For web browsing, email, document creation/spreadsheets for personal use, facebook foolery, etc., the above-mentioned computer is more than adequate.
Well-put. Sometimes newer is just not better (e.g., Office) for everyday needs.

What I will say, though, is that I have found the error-handling in Win7 to be much better than in XP. I almost never have a misbehaving program take down and BSOD the whole system as happened with increasing frequency in XP.
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