| Title | Ask Soylent: New, Quality Laptops with 32-bit Windows? | |
| Date | Tuesday January 20 2015, @07:53PM | |
| Author | janrinok | |
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| from the moving-forward-to-the-past dept. | ||
My 2002-vintage Dell laptop with Windows 2000 has a battery life that could best be measured in seconds, and the hinges are literally crumbling apart. It's overdue for retirement...and I'm very interested in finding a suitable replacement.
But what? Ideally, it should be a rugged machine that will last another decade of normal wear and tear. It should have a CD-ROM drive. And it should be compatible with 16- and 32-bit applications, running the oldest version of Windows that is viable.
While searching the web, I was very interested to discover a vendor that still offered new Windows XP laptops for sale. I've seriously considered buying one...but I'm hesitant to hitch my wagon to XP because the operating system's combination of product activation and revoked support means any computer running it could easily become a glorified paperweight down the road.
Windows 8.x is unusable, Windows 2000 is incompatible with new hardware, and the 64-bit version of Windows 7 lacks the ability to run 16-bit executables and 32-bit programs with 16-bit installers...which precludes my ability to use half the software I rely on. Do any vendors ship new, good-quality laptops with the 32-bit version of Windows 7?
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