[Elecraft] OT Looking for PC advice.

[Phil Wheeler]

Except after some date in the not too distant 
future, upgrade to Windows 10 will not be free but 
cost $100 or so.

I've updated three PCs and two Macs (via BootCamp) 
from Win 7 to Win 10 and I'm very pleased with the 
new OS.

No need for the Classic Shell approach I needed on 
my one Win 8.1 machine.

Phil W7OX

On 5/23/16 5:20 PM, Eric Ross wrote:
> I work at a large corporation that generally keeps the technology reasonably current and we are still standardized on Win 7 Enterprise.  I have not run into any apps that are supported on Win 10 and not supported on Win 7.  The drive to upgrade has significantly decreased.  That is why the upgrade nags were implemented.  People are not seeing the need to upgrade.
>
> Eric
> KB7TD
>
>> On May 23, 2016, at 3:25 PM, Phil Kane <k2asp at kanafi.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 5/23/2016 12:12 AM, F5vjc wrote:
>>
>>> Do you guys prefer Win 7 or 10 for Ham radio apps.
>> I have a 6-year old Dell tower for my business and personal use and a
>> 3-year old Dell laptop for my ham radio use.  Both of them run Win 7 Pro
>> 64 bit.
>>
>> I tried "upgrading" the laptop to Win 10.  Too much effort on defusing
>> all of the nasty Microsoft "call home" stuff and auto-updating (I prefer
>> to see and review each and every "patch" before letting it run).  Even
>> with ClassicShell (which I use on all of my computers) I could not get
>> Win 10 to look and behave the way I wanted.  I had to re-install Win 7
>> on the laptop because it was beyond the 30-day "easy rollback" period
>> and fortunately I had the "reinstall media" from Dell.
>>
>> Bottom line - I am sticking to Win 7 as long as I have those computers
>> and when either needs replacing I will order new ones with Win 7
>> installed (not-so-secret that one can still do it if one is a good
>> customer of the supplier).
>>
>>
>> 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
>> Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402