Acer AST180-UA350B

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    A friend of mine brought me this Acer PC about two weeks ago, wanted to see

    if it could be upgraded. I told Him he had several options, #1 Trash the PC,

    #2 Dual boot Vista with Linux, which he knew nothing about, and #3 try to

    install W10. He opted for #3.

    So after installing a Antec VP 450 watt PSU, a 500GB seagate HDD and 4GB of

    ram, I then installed W10 Pro using the media cretion tool. It is actvated

    and running well.

    The PC came from Acer with Vista Home Basic 32bit, which was running very well, and I have a system image of, if W10 doesn't work out. Since Vista is unsupported and W7 will soon be unsupported, then W8.1 or W10 is the next logical OS's to upgrade to. I should have installed the 32bit W10, and I would not have had to upgrade the ram.

    I could not find a W10 graphics driver for the Nvidia GeForce 6100, but W10 will run using the W8.1 Nvidia 6100 driver.

    To sum things up. It is not a gaming PC, or even a mainstream PC but it will do as a basic PC, as long as the motherboard lasts.

    Been wanting to do one of these old Vista machine upgrades for awhile, and finally found a willing client. Is it worth it? Who knows?

    I am impressed with W10, did not say I liked it, and all the different hardware it will run on.

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    Quote from daniel

    Since Vista is unsupported and W7 will soon be unsupported

    I am a Mac user but my job requires me to use Windows software. I am running Win7 on Parallels, as this is the last licensed Windows I have (it came with my old Vaio, my last PC).

    New professional software is still running on Win7, but I am afraid it will become unsupported in the next few years. I just need a light Windows environment to run a couple of text editing software. What OS would you recommend?

    If you are running W7 in a virtual environment, such as Parallels is, and it is running the software that you need, then I would keep using W7, supported or not.

    W10 is about the only logical option one has, if one wants to run Windows. Thank you for your input. daniel.