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  1. NotHereToPlayGames
    Not "only" Win7 Starter. Mine is LEGIT AND LEGAL. Not a "counterfeit". And it came with XP pre-installed. Maybe not in YOUR country, but that's not my problem, lol. Google/Bing/Duck for "acer aspire one windows xp". These XP models are all over the place.
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    No! My model pre-dates the "D255". Mine was a Walmart Christmas Special in 2010. Wouldn't be the first time that Walmart supply chain created something "special".
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    Looking forward to it. Seems everybody is waiting for ME to post my results first. Will take some time. This isn't my "only hobby", lol.
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    My Acer Aspire One POS (my name for it) CAME WITH XP PRE-INSTALLED. That qualifies this POS as from "XP Era" by ANYBODY'S "definition". It was probably Christmas time frame 2010. I'd have to pull up my Quicken archives to confirm.
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    Found this to be SPOT ON! From here.
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    Good news! And bad news. Good == My Acer Aspire is the Atom N450 and not the N270. Bad == It's only 1.0 GB RAM. But sure, for the sake of this one-on-one, I still am inclined to believe that ANY Pentium 4, regardless of RAM type, is better than this POS. Remember, CPU manufacturers were always increasing clock speeds until they found more efficient ways of doing things. It's not like two 1.0 GHz cores is "equal to" one 2.0 GHz single-core. It doesn't work that way. Hyper-threading has its pros and cons. Found this to be an interesting read -- https://superuser.com/questions/1166529/performance-impact-of-hyper-threading So feel free to pull a 512 out of that box of yours and get test scores with only 1.0 GB RAM.
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    While that may be, try posting similar for XP (also abandoned by its creator and used worldwide on old systems "for free") and see what the MSFN Moderators have to say.
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    Will be tomorrow or Sunday before I can run on "real hardware" (Acer Aspire One with XP x86).
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    Ugh! All my results are BLANK. Says I must select System Tests and they ARE selected. Appears to be VM related. UNFORTUNATE. As I really really really hate hate hate installing software on any computer without testing inside a VM first. Modus Operandi.
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    Technically, we just violated MSFN Forum Rules. But we probably just toed-the-line and are fine "in this scenario".
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    I know... I'm in now... I was driving too fast and ran the Stop sign, lol.
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    I'm still digging. I always always always test in VM first. NOTHING lands on my computers without being tested inside a VM first. So far the keys in that one link do not work (PCMark05 and 3DMark05 are not the same thing). edit -- oops, I didn't scroll down far enough, lol... still digging... edit2 -- I am generally NOT a supporter/user of XP's "adjust for best appearance" but this is what PCMark05 "suggests". I have to assume that you are using "adjust for best appearance" in this one-on-one comparison?
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    Third hiccup -
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    Second hiccup - Sorry, but NO. I will not be installing DirectX 9.0c (not if I don't "have to"). My computer has no use for DirectX as I am not a "gamer". Any other suggestions for comparing performance between two XP machines?
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    First hiccup - The Microsoft link sent me to a downloads page with nothing available for XP, as one would expect from a Microsoft link.
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    I think the way they "used to" test-compare this type of "battle" is to take a folder of 1000, or 2000, or 5000 bitmaps/jpegs/txts and "time" how long it takes 7-Zip to compress them. Uses RAM, uses CPU, uses HDD read-writes, et cetera. We compress the same exact set of files, use the same exact compression program, use the same exact compression format, et cetera. Capture a video of it so that the GPU is thrown into the mix somehow. I'm willing if you are. All I really know for sure is that this Acer Aspire is a POS but I'm too cheap and frugile to throw away something without a single scratch or blemish and still quite literally looks BRAND NEW. In part because it is sooo dd#mmnn SSLLLOOOWW that I have "no interest" in USING it for anything of real significance.
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    Define the parameters of such a test and I will engage in this battle. Quantifiable measurements where neither one of us can "cheat". Then we'll let the rest of MSFN members "decide for themselves". Or back down from this "stance". Either way, "no skin off my back".
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    Noted. You're ALWAYS right and ALL of the CPU benchmark sites are wrong! Got it!
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    I've owned Pentium 4s in the past - they're faster than this slow-as-duck Intel Atom. It sounds to me like you are backpeddling your scientific objectivity and now relying on "gut feelings" instead. There's a lot of benchmark web sites out there, they all cite Pentium 4s as faster than Intel Atoms. You're an objective and scientific lad. Take a step back and return to the table without subjectivity and hypotheticals. Your bias is showing at the moment and that's not you.
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    Perhaps. But you have a tablet and you rely on it for "real work". I most definitely want nothing to do with my old Acer as far as "real work" is concerned.
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    To the best of my knowledge, these "dark theme reports" are always reported by Vista users. Unsure if that is a factor at play here or not. But it is a "variable" in the equation.
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    Same here. But I only tested in a VM so I was hoping a "real machine" report would trickle in. Personally, I've yet to EVER be able to REPRODUCE any of these "dark theme reports" of 'outdated browser'. These "dark theme reports" show up quite frequently. I've *never* been able to reproduce. At least, "so far"... ie, "these" --
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    You didn't "say" anything, so I have to assume that you are inferring that other Win10 users are "like me". I assure you that they are not! They may want this file and I am 123,456,789% positive that win32s will NOT remove this file. Go ahead, ask him to, I'll grab the popcorn.
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    I mispoke. Apologies. I can screencap from home "if I must". I prefer not to, this computer is SLOW AS SH#T. Only runs to notify me of incoming texts or email as I do not own a phone. Then I walk across the house to a REAL computer! I cited 4 GB but that was my Celeron machine running XP. I no longer have the Celeron. I too only have 1.5 GB RAM.
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