Can your old PC run Windows 1. The answer will surprise you. For a modern operating system with an vast range of capabilities, Windows 1. To find out just how lean though, I decided to install Windows 1.

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PCs to see how well it runs. The actual experience might surprise you. The “Vista Capable” machine. Gordon Mah Ung. Can you run and install Windows 1. PC? Yes you can! Carbon- dating of the chassis tells me it’s from the year 2.

A. D. The machine had been moldering away in a pile of old rigs at PCWorld and obviously wasn’t in its original state. Inside it has perhaps one of Intel’s worst- respected CPUs, a 3. GHz Pentium D, as well as 2. GB of DDR2 RAM and a dead video card. I removed the machine’s fax modem. I dropped in a Radeon HD 6. GB, 7,2. 00rpm hard drive.

I installed the only version of Windows 1. I had in ISO form at the time: Build 1. It’s a few weeks old and the last technical preview ISO released by Microsoft before pausing the entire program. Note: The final build is supposed to offer some performance enhancements, but I honestly don’t expect a fundamental shift from a two- week- old build of the OS. My experience with this 9- year- old box shocked me: It ran super- smooth and was surprisingly responsive just navigating Windows 1. Reality hit me in the face, though, when I decided to actually do something—like task the Edge Browser with opening five media- heavy pages, including PCWorld. That’s when it all ground to a halt.

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Some of that comes from the albatross of the truly atrocious Pentium D CPU, and some of that comes from the mere 2. GB of memory in the system. A dual- core Pentium D works with Windows 1. In fact, just leaving the Edge browser open and letting it sit for a few minutes caused the Dell’s CPU to run at 1. Doing nothing. Moving to Google’s Chrome, which has a reputation for being a memory hog, it was just as bad—I waited 1. Start Menu to pop up. My verdict: I’m amazed it works at all.

Be prepared for constant thumb- twiddling, however, as the CPU ramps up to 1. Maybe, just maybe, it’s time to take this as a gentle nudge to upgrade your 2. My specimen had a Intel 1. GHz Atom N2. 70 in it, 2. GB of DDR2, and a 5,4. GB hard drive in it. Netbooks barely had the power to run Windows XP.

If there’s one CPU that disappointed people more than the Pentium 4, it was the early Atom CPUs, which were universally excoriated for their performance. Windows 1. 0, amazingly, installed just fine on the S1. Like the Pentium D box, however, the processor almost continually runs at full load doing the most basic tasks.

Opening five- media heavy websites meant waiting an inexorablly long time for the computer to respond to other instructions. Just running a single instance of Youtube on a Netbook will eat most of the CPU cycles. Windows 1. 0 Edge though, will at least work in Youtube while Chrome chokes. I’ll give the S1. Windows 1. 0 this, though: The new Edge browser was capable of playing Youtube videos with far fewer hitches than Chrome.

The last Netbook I played with years ago would not play Youtube videos in the Chrome browser without major hitches. The S1. 2 with the Chrome browser and Windows 1. My Verdict: It works and installs just fine. It doesn’t make the Netbook experience any better.

Let’s be frank, Netbooks were poor performers when they came out with Windows XP, so Windows 1. If you’re running Windows XP and must have Windows 1. OS. If you’re on Windows 7 or Windows 8, the move isn’t a bad idea, either, as you get access to a more modern OS. A “real” laptop. The last machine I tried was a 2. Lenovo X6. 1 that originally came with Windows Vista. Equipped with a 2. GHz Core 2 Duo T8.

GB of DDR2 RAM, I literally rescued this laptop from an e- waste bin, where it may have been sent because of problems with its Wi- Fi card. All I know is the X6. Wi- Fi, so my browsing was done over the LAN port. Of the three here, it felt the fastest and snappiest. That’s no surprise: The dual- core T8.

CPU, and for general computing tasks is very usable. Drop an SSD in there and for most people, they’d never know the difference between this seven- year- old PC and a modern laptop. It’s far from it, though. Opening the five media- heavy sites in the Edge browser put a hefty load on the CPU, while a 2. My verdict: This is a very usable experience. If I ran on a tight budget, a Windows 1. Vista, along with cheap SSD, would give me another couple of years’ service for general computing.

My recommendations. Windows 1. 0 on an older PC is a compromise, at best.

The 2. 00. 6- era Pentium D is a borderline lost cause for all but the most basic computing tasks. Even there, it’s almost useless, as the CPU seems to be under heavy loads constantly. The same goes with 2.

Netbook: Underpowered even when they first came out, you’d better take meditation lessons or you'll find yourself smashing it into the ground in frustration. Windows 1. 0 loads and runs, but it’s pretty painful once you start actually doing anything. However, my perspective comes from someone who drives SSD- equipped, multi- core, tier- 1 GPU- equipped computers all day.

If it doesn’t snap to in a second, I’m upset. For someone who’s actually used to waiting, and waiting, and waiting for the machine to respond to a command on these two old dogs, a Windows 1. OS. The 2. 00. 8- era X6. It’s actually very usable. For someone on a budget, Windows 1.

This may be why analysts are predicting that Windows 1. PC sales: You can get by with a seven- year- old laptop and the new OS if you really have to. You give up a lot, though, from battery life to performance and overall weight. How To Install Chicco Keyfit Car Seat Into Stroller Recall. Windows 7 Unattended Installing Updates On Macbook. Would you run Windows 1.

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Emulators Online - Dirty Little Secrets! Darek's Secrets. Updated Mar 1. It has been over 3. I started working with personal computers and sporting my sexy bowl cut.

Starting with a green- screen 4. Commodore PET in 1. Toronto Canada, I purchased my own Atari 4. Since then I've owned numerous Atari ST, VIC- 2. Commodore 6. 4, Apple II, Apple Macintosh and Windows computers. I've made a full- time living from computers since age 1. That was followed by paid articles in other computer magazines, starting my own company at age 2.

Atari ST emulator (Gemulator) and the first Apple Macintosh emulator for Windows (Soft. Mac). I moved to Seattle Washington in 1. Microsoft where I participated in the development of Windows XP and Vista, Office 9. Office 9. 7, Mac Office 9. Xbox 3. 60, multiple releases of Visual Studio, and contributed to several papers including this one on . More recently I have been funding my own research on the many interesting facets of virtual machines for the era of 6. CPUs. I presented the Virtualization Without Direct Executionpaper and slides at the AMAS- BT workshop at ISCA 2.

Beijing, proposing portable methods of implementing emulation- based virtualization for mainstream PCs. In late 2. 00. 8, I joined a new microprocessor group at Intel headquarters in Santa Clara, California, where I worked until the summer of 2. I am presently back in Seattle and diving into all things cloud computing. Emulators releases in 2. MARCH 1. 8 2. 01. Hi folks, I've been receiving a lot of emails asking about Windows 8.

So both Mac OS 7. CD- ROM editions are available. When sending in your Starbucks gift card or a self- address stamped mailer, please therefore specify if you are interested in: Macintosh System 7.

Macintosh System 7. CD- ROM (boot/setup CD), or,Mac OS 8.

CD- ROM. Please folks, take these 1. Mac OS packages off my hands! OCTOBER 2 2. 01. 0Talk about taking a long time to open a package. What I thought were some old boxes of Macintosh computer parts that I had put away in storage back in 2. Macworld New York show, well, turned out have a shipment of Mac OS packages I had forgotten about. After liquidating my inventory of Mac OS 7.

CD- ROM packages in 2. Mac OS liquidation), I find myself today rummaging through the storage space and opening up three never opened boxes containing the floppy disk based Mac OS 7. Macintosh System 7. Mac OS System 7. 5 packages on floppy disk that I have now left to liquidate, along with a handful of Mac OS 8. CD- ROM based packages left over from before. System 7. 5 (which as you can tell from the box was the version that Apple decided to rebrand as . System 7. 5 boots on everything from Mac Plus through Mac II to Mac Classic to Mac Quadra and LC, as well as the early Power.

Macs. Which means that System 7. Macintosh emulators - Soft. Mac, Gemulator, v.

Mac, Fusion, Basilisk II, etc. Pretty much any Mac models prior to the appearance of the i. Mac in the late 1.

System 7. 5 is the one universal Mac OS for use on classic Macs. So, if you are interested in getting over of these never used, never opened (heck, never exposed to sunlight) packages of Mac OS 7. System 7. 5 floppy disk based system disks, now is your chance. As before, I am giving these away to anyone that either sends me a suitably sized self- addressed stamped mailer large enough as you see to hold a typically sized Mac OS package, or sends me a Starbucks gift card of at least $1. Use the Starbucks option if you live outside of the United States, and you can order Starbucks gift cards online at Starbucks.

Send pre- paid pre- stamped envelopes or the Starbucks gift cards to my usual address:    Darek Mihocka, c/o Emulators. N. E. 2. 0th Street, Suite 3. Bellevue, WA 9. 80. United States Of America. Please specify specifically whether you are requesting the floppy disk package of Mac System 7. CD- ROM package of Mac OS 8.

Besides the almost hundred of the 7. I have maybe ten packages of the 8. CD- ROM. With each Mac OS package I will also include another of the liquidation items I never quite got rid of, the Emulators shareware CD- ROM containing over 6.

Macintosh shareware suitable for running on classic Macintosh systems. JULY 1. 6 2. 01. 0The Momentus XT has arrived! Announced back in May, the new generation of hybrid notebook hard disk from Seagate finally made its appearance in stores this week. I spotted one in the wild and captured it (well, ordered online), bringing it into my lab for testing. For the past year, Seagate's leading notebook hard disk has been their 5. Momentus 7. 20. 0.

ST9. 50. 04. 20. AS, a 7. SATA hard disk with 1. That notebook hard disk fared so well in my tests, I made it the standard hard disk in just about all of my notebooks and desktop machines. I put one into my Apple Macbook, replacing the traditionally slow and cheap 5. Apple puts into Macbooks by default.

I put one into my Mac Pro G5 desktop. Another one replaced the stock 2. Gateway laptop. Yet more served as the boot drives of various Atom systems, delivering a high- capacity low- noise low- power disk for those systems. So how does Seagate top the 7. For starters it doubles the size of on the onboard disk cache to 3.

But, the real leap forward with the new drive is the addition of 4- gigabytes of flash memory, making the new drive what is called a hybrid disk drive. The flash memory acts as a sort of secondary disk cache (not unlike the analogy of an L1 and L2 cache in a microprocessor), buffering 4 gigabytes of the most frequently accessed hard disk data in fast low- latency flash memory.

The net effect of the flash memory is that in theory the new hybrid drive should exhibit most of the speed of an SSD (solid state drive) without the prohibitive cost of a purely solid- state drive, which for 5. The new Seagate Momentus XT drive on the other had cost me all of 1.

Amazon, virtually exactly the same price as last year's drive. In fact the two hard disks look almost the same, as shown in the photo below, where the distinguishing markings between the two are of course the . The 2. 00. 9 Seagate 7. Seagate XT on the right. So, first test, I thought I would tackle a system that most other web sites would not jump on benchmarking first, or for that matter one that Seagate might have optimized their drive for.

I chose as my first test subject my Apple Mac Pro G5, since that system has already been running on last year's 7. Mac OS X and Fedora 1. Linux installed on the same 5. I booted the Mac Pro back and forth several times between Mac OS X and Fedora several times to get a rough idea of OS boot times and some other quick metrics, listed here: Mac OS X 1. OS selection menu to fully rendered desktop): 5. Mac OS X running Virtual PC 7. Windows 2. 00. 0 VM: 5.

Mac OS X running Virtual PC 7. Windows 2. 00. 0 benchmark run: 2. Fedora 1. 2 Linux boot (from OS selection menu to logic screen): 5.

Fedora 1. 2 Linux running QEMU emulator, boot time of Windows 2. VM: 6. 3 seconds. Fedora 1. 2 Linux running QEMU emulator, a Windows 2. Using HDClone (http: //www. I performed an exact sector- for- sector disk copy, made trivial by the fact that the storage capacity of both the old drive and new drive is identical. I then repeated my tests.

The first test I measured was the first boot of Fedora 1. Linux from the new hard disk. This test can only be performed once, when ther solid- state flash memory is empty and the drive has not been . As Seagate documents, continued use of the drive will populate the flash memory with frequently used disk data, and since I am not aware of a way to .

Boot time of Fedora dropped from 5. This is very much representative of the same kind of boot speed up people have observed with fully solid- state drives.

Bravo Seagate! The Windows benchmark run dropped from 1. Not impressive due to the fact that the scenario is mostly gated by QEMU's slow emulation speed, but keep that number in mind for a few seconds.

Switch then to booting Mac OS X 1. Virtual PC 7. 0. 2 booting Windows 2. Windows benchmark run improved from 2.