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Re: [LUG] wowsa four cores for £76

 

We are soldiering on with XP when we really, truly, absolutely have to
run Windows. Which hasn't been for about a year now come to think of it.
I'm going to avoid buying Win7 or any variant unless I can't avoid it on
a new machine, but seeing as I always buy second hand and then parts at
that... unless its a more up to date laptop than my 5 year old Dell.
Which has become virtually unuseable due to the 16mb video card onboard
that don't have no drivers, despite the respectable 2ghz cpu speed.

On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 00:25 +0100, Rob Beard wrote:
> Paul Sutton wrote:
>   
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions
> >
> > buy windows 7 and those 4 cores may not be supported even if you do fork
> > out on the most expensive version
> >
> > or am I getting processors and cores mixed up,
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >   
> It's physical CPUs, or sockets rather than cores.
> 
> I think what Microsoft are thinking is that anyone who is running 
> Windows 7 Home Premium (or lower) is unlikely to be running a dual 
> socket system (such as an AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon) hence Windows 7 
> Premium, Enterprise and Ultimate (the versions aimed at either people 
> who want/need the extra features, or businesses) are more likely to be 
> running workstation class machines (i.e. something with more than one 
> socket and a workstation/server class CPU).
> 
> If you want any more than 2 physical processors (sockets) then the only 
> option is Windows Server 2008.
> 
> Rob
> 


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