Windows 10 Rock Solid
I've been running the Windows 10 Insider Preview since very early in the preview program, on a Dell Vostro 1700 Notebook, purchased in March 2008. The original OS was Windows Vista Business x86, which was upgraded to Windows 7 Professional x64 (clean installed) soon after Windows 7 was released.
I'm now running Windows 10 Pro (Build 10240) x64 on this machine and it is running faster and more stable than with any previous version of Windows. The Specs are:
1). Processor - Intel Core2Duo T9300 @ 2.50GHz
2). RAM - 4 Gb DDR2 (533Mhz)
3). NVidia GeForce 8600M GT Graphics card (256Mb )
4). Primary Drive - OCZ-Octane SSD (256Gb) as System Drive
Secondary Drive - Seagate ST1000LM014-1EJ164 (1Tb Hybrid HDD) used for Data.
So while this system is above the minimum requirements in most respects, the Processor is definitely on the older side, as is the NVidia graphics card, but both work just fine. All the other hardware in the system had drivers available out of the box from Windows 10 and everything is working as expected.
I've also tried Windows 10 on a 10 year old Dell Inspiron 9300 notebook. While the x86 version installed OK and again had drivers for all the hardware out of the box, it does crawl. I suspect this is mostly due to the notebook having a PATA HDD rather than the newer SATA. It seems to be the disk IO operations that are causing the slowdown.. So I would NOT suggest installing Windows 10 on such an old system.
But anything that is a similar vintage to the Vostro 1700, or newer, should be quite happy running Microsoft's newest OS.
Jonathan.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
