I came onto this forum for a completely different purpose and tripped over this thread.
So, it would appear that I finally need to get my@rse in gear and update from XP: quite honestly, no surprise there. Being no expert, I had a quick look around and it would seem that installing W8 would result in most of my programs becoming unuseable - again no surprise, we've moved on from Photoshop Elements V2, I guess (
) and I haven't used Photosuite 4 for some years, so I could do without that. My weather station is compatible with W7 - is that also too early to work on W8? Also new drivers would be necessary for my Canon MX310 printer - I can cope with that. Microsoft Office? Something newer than Office 2003.
Doing a quick Belarc analysis:
I guess I'd need a separate graphics card as I only have 'on-board' graphics, but the rest looks OK to me.
I also have a 2005 vintage laptop (Patriot - PC World branded Advent 7063M) which I assume I'll have to chuck or convert to Linux or Ubuntu; Google Earth won't work on it any more and there's only room for about 1Gb RAM.
My wife has an ASUS Eee(e?) notebook, about 4 years old, also on XP so I assume that that needs a different version of W8.
Rather a lot in one go, I know , but I'd rather get the process sorted out before I'm standing before a computer shop owner who is gently salivating at the thought of his profits for the year suddenly rocketing.
GG