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| BadMouth:
I had no problems with the last ebay laptop battery I got for my Compaq circa 2004. I've had 3 or 4 lousy Chinese cell phone batteries since then though. The laptop is 4 years old, but I ordered it with a decent 2nd gen i7 processor (3.4Ghz "turbo boost") after being frustrated with a series of underpowered black Friday specials. It's still a high end computer by my standards and worth dropping another $100 on. I'm hoping to get another 5 years out of it as my primary computer. I'm debating on updating to Windows 10 for the sake of the OS being supported further into the future. |
| Hoopz:
Whats the OS on it now? If it's 8 or 8.1, I'd say definitely go to 10. 10 is so much better than 8. If you have Win7, it's a toss up. Support may be there still in five years for Win7. |
| BadMouth:
--- Quote from: Hoopz on September 22, 2015, 02:43:17 pm ---Whats the OS on it now? If it's 8 or 8.1, I'd say definitely go to 10. 10 is so much better than 8. If you have Win7, it's a toss up. Support may be there still in five years for Win7. --- End quote --- The laptop has Win 7. I updated my cheap underpowered atom tablet from 8 to 10, but haven't had time to mess around with it yet. |
| knave:
I'm still using a laptop from 2009 daily, upgraded it to 10 and while I don't hate it I regret it. I had just installed 7 fresh in May and it was running perfect. But I wanted a Windows 10 test machine. Buy the battery and leave it 7. |
| Howard_Casto:
Well if you upgrade to 10 you have 30 days to downgrade. It isn't like previous upgrades where you have to wipe the system. I think hardware issues would be the only thing I'd worry about. The catalyst control center no longer works for my video card in windows 10, but it was an exceedingly old video card. You just have to watch out for stuff like that, otherwise it's windows 7 with better directX support and a couple of non-essential bells and whistles. |
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