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I went into a few "big box" retailers over the last couple of days and "played" on the machines they had after a friend mistakenly bought a "cheap deal" vista machine..

I was amazed as to how SLOW they were, just purely unresponsive and sluggish, I took at look at the vista scores most had and 2-3 were not uncommon! (My main machine is a healthy 6.5) and their low scores really did show in everything from the clicking of the mouse to opeing basic office apps which was a 30 second endurance. Even opening search or paint was just awfully slow and it usually asked me " did you really click on this application?"

Go back 10 years to 1997 and  let's compare this machine to the "craputer" of the 1997 day, a Cyrix MediaGX 166MHz with a whole 16MB ram running Windows95. The difference is amazing.
 
This old heap of junk started up in 30 seconds, opened Word in about 7 seconds, Paint in 5 (which I thought was really slow back then compared to Windows 3.11)  Running opera 8 on the MediaGX ran surprisingly well. Using winamp (2) worked quickly, and everyting functioned when you clicked on it.

Running Windows 3.11 was just phenomonal on this, insanely quick.

In contrast, the Vista machine was just poke-slow in everything it did, took 3 minutes to start up, took 24 seconds to load Word, and usually taking about double the time to run the modern equivalents of anything else.. The only advantage it had was pure clock cycles when running things like Flash.

Vista is a true step backwards, just like running Windows95 on an 8MB 486SX.

Result, WindowsXP loaded and licenced, and Fedora also loaded as a "play about" option.

She loves it now!

I am re building copies of standalone FAT32-mini-Windows3.11 and Knoppix for "secondary" installs on to peoples machines and may re-release "Windblows" my win98 hack.,