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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 > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html