My min spec of "Dual or-more-core anything with 4Gb RAM" has held for several years in a row now for business systems, and can be satisfied for a virtual pittance. It was just a matter of turning junk off. Optimised versions of 7 were sold with netbooks for years, and their hardware was severely limited for a long time. Hardware hasn't got much faster since the Windows 7 days - maybe a core or two more, maybe a graphics card upgrade, but the base CPU/RAM/disk are pretty much in the same area. Windows 10 appears to be continuing this trend of a RETURN to performance, rather than performing miracles. just one image will do with maybe a tweak if something requires the very latest graphics drivers. I no longer need several images to image dozens of types and models of computer, laptop, all-in-one, etc. And the amount of sheer built-in hardware drivers is phenomenal. Windows 8 has been my last two mass deployments and, with a few third-party-cured interface problems, is just as good to the users as 7 was, but actually boots, resumes, etc. I know that disabling them certainly does (fun fact: Disabling Windows Search on Windows 8 stops you installing new keyboard languages!). Just junk like Superfetch services and Windows Search - I feel if you were to optimise those more efficiently that they'd easily show a performance improvement. It just seems that in 8 (which is as fast as 7, if not faster, as far as I can tell) and 10 are actually coming back to what they should always have been? I know that XP -> Vista and XP->7 felt like backward steps at times in terms of performance, and were accompanied by a similar ramp-up in terms of realistic minimum specs. Is it just me that feels that this isn't a win for Windows 10, but actually a degradation of Windows Vista/7 and - to some extent - 8 in terms of performance losses at those points? Glad I did, I'm not happy with the current state of Chrome. I went back to Firefox over it on my netbook, and went back to it everywhere as a result. On that note - Chrome does horrible full-screen, which is almost a requirement on a netbook. The fact ChromeOS is Linux they pushed them right back where I thought they should be (mostly) anyways. I see the entire Chromebook phenomenon as a fuck you to Microsoft for the bullying they pulled forcing manufacturers out of that market anyways. These are actually seeing some real adoption, schools in particular in this area require kids to have a Chromebook, that they will issue, or something that will do the same things as a Chromebook if a parent will provide (my buddy sent his daughter with a first gen Surface tablet with Chrome). I laughed my butt off when they came back in the name of Chromebooks - the first Acer Chromebooks as far as I could tell were basically a repurposed Aspire One anyways. I was upset when Microsoft decided they didn't want Netbooks to exist anymore and used their clout to force the reputable companies out of making them.
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