nismotigerwvu
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- May 13, 2004
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I would like to know how many of the PCs still running XP SP3(2008) when support ended (2014) were using newer CPUs, like let's say 2010+
I can imagine there's quite a few chugging along in academia and industry. Due to some quirks in our acquisition policy at the university, there's only a handful of models from a single provider (Dell) we can purchase for use in the lab. After the ancient system that had been running our Agilent 1100 series HPLC went down, our cheapest replacement system option was rocking a 2600k with 8 (or maybe 12) gigs of ram! Yet there it was, slogging through XP and running 16 bit software/ I only just managed to get everything upgraded to a modern version and Windows 7 within the last few months. Coincidentally the automated fraction collector started working again after the upgrade, huzzahs for mechanical lab slaves! Now that I think about it, I'd actually be super curious of just how much faster that system was compared to the Pentium 4 it replaced when it comes 16 bit applications.