robotmaker
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This tread is mostly about using WINDOWS XP IN A ROBOT and comparing it to windows 7 i see a lot of it off topic
Here is somethings i found out by testing both windows XP and windows 7
Now i have 2.4ghz dual processor with 3 gig memory and using 32 bit systems both windows 7 and windows XP and windows XP on a bench mark test shows it was much faster,now with a 64 bit windows 7 it was a lot faster.
But the windows 7 draw almost double current then windows XP THAT why if you check every professional robot over $1000 and some over $12000 like the one i am getting soon hanson ROBOKIND that just came out,none uses windows 7,robot cost more so they can easy add it,but they dont
In my personal experience xp is a "lighter" os that runs better on low power machines like netbook. I did an experiment monday and loaded win 7 ultimate on a Acer One and battery life went from 5-6 hours down to 2.5 hours on the same machine. Also the performance really dropped. At that point it could only play minecraft at like 2 frames per second. Im not saying this performance difference would apply for every machine but I just wanted to see if this super common netbook could handle it since atom 1.6 ghz is the most common and low cost netbook out there right now.
Agian im not trying to pose any argument one way or another just sharing the results of this experiment. After the install. I had a rediculous amount of updates - Josh S
coroware corobot with window pretty easy to find the webpage and support
white box robotics with window xp pretty easy to find support for a robotics expert RICH
How much RAM on that Netbook? Mine came with 2 gig and ran Win7 family well, but could barely run with Ultimate. Put 4 gig in though and have super performance. It is a 1.6 Atom proc.
Thanks very much JOSH does show i am right
This netbook is 1 gig of ram and 160gig ssd
Anyway, is a moot point if you don't already have a license. Microsoft won't authorize new sales, and soon will stop authorizing downgrade rights to XP once they end extended support.
Yea ultimatly its better to get more powerful computer than a atom lol. Im a fan of amd c60 and e series for low power solutions. On robots like my sguegee I probably wont use voice recognition so its cool to have xp.... all that matters is if what you have does what you want
Do I need to make a sarcasm sign?..
You still haven't answered the questions asked about your windows 7 installation.
When Windows Vista was released you could still buy laptops with XP installed, even up until after windows 7 was released. Vista had too many issues. If what you claim about pc manufacturers is true they would have opted for Vista but they didn't. They want profit and sales but they don't do that at the cost of poor performance, except for Gateway who paid the price for that.
Windows Vista has already been phased out, before XP was.
And for the record, I am an expert in the field of computers, more so Microsoft software. They don't just hand out MCDST, MCITP, MCSD etc. certifications to just anyone.
The point is, an optimised installation of Windows 7 does not draw twice the current of an optimised installation of XP. It draws slightly more but it's minimal and barely worth being bothered about.