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Windows 10, Older Laptop?

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Carbo

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I'm running an older Dell XPS 15, (L502X model). i7 processor, 8GB RAM.
Been using W7 and on the fence about upgrading to 10. Dell's website states that they don't support Windows 10 with this model laptop, which I guess means no driver support. Ran the upgrade and the only thing I see so far is a problem waking the machine out of sleep mode. Right now I need to do a hard shut down and restart.
 
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Well windows 10 has good driver support built in and I never went to dell for my alienware drivers so don't let that stop you from upgrading.
 
Did the upgrade and so far, so good, except for the wake from sleep issue.
Planning on doing the clean install after I've had a chance to play with 10 and decide if I want to keep it or stay with 7.
 
I ran w7 ult 64 bit from 09 until last fall when I upgraded to 8.1 pro 64 bit and I never regretted it. I use classic shell and 8gadgetpack to make it look like 7 while retaining the new features so 10 looks just the same to me. I got rid of the horrible search window in the task bar to make space for running programs.
 
For what it's worth, I upgraded my Asus K52JR laptop (with an i3 350m, Radeon 5470, and 4 GB of RAM) and it works fine. Was originally Win 7, then 8, now 10, all 64 bit.
 
Windows 10 is designed to be in the same requirements that windows 7 and 8 demand. It's 32 bit version is designed to work within 1gb ram on basic SOC processors. It is all new to core processors, but if you are running around with an i anything then windows 10 should be just fine.
 
win 10 fails on my Inspiron laptop. Boots to black screen. If I push the power button a few times it sometimes restores the desktop. Also boots very slow. Restored back to win 7. Everything's fine. Fast boot time and desktop. Don't know what the problem is. I suspect drivers.
 
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win 10 fails on my Inspiron laptop. Boots to black screen. If I push the power button a few times it sometimes restores the desktop. Also boots very slow. Restored back to win 7. Everything's fine. Fast boot time and desktop. Don't know what the problem is. I suspect drivers.
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I suspect Dell and dell's shonky drivers.
 
I have an older Toshiba Satellite C650 (AMD P360 2.4GHz dual core CPU with 4GB DDR2) I'm going to give it a test on, currently running Win 7.
 
I upgraded my Dell vostro 3350 from 7 pro to 10 pro, and all the drivers went fine, but I had the black screen on startup that extended the boot up by 1 minute. Also, twice when I tried to restart, it would freeze at saying "Restarting" or just the screen went black but the PC was still on. It also felt sluggish to me, using a 7200 rpm.

Went to do that Go Back to Windows 7 button, and it did it, but then it corrupted the install because I was getting blue screens. So I just reinstalled Win7 clean, and it is fast again, and feels faster than 10. I could try clean installing 10 now that it is registered, but on Dell it says they didn't certify the 3350 for Windows 10. The next model up 3360 (Ivy) is supported. I think it is because the 3350 is not UEFI compliant.
 
OP, your machine is a bazillion times faster than mine. Mine runs Win 10 OK actually. I had no Win 10 drivers either BTW. In fact, it runs much more responsively in Win 10 than it ever did in Win 7.

My el cheapo Acer 1810TZ laptop's specs are:

Pentium SU4100 1.3 GHz (dual-core)
Intel integrated GPU - GMA 4500MHD
4 GB RAM (800 MHz)
Kingston V+100 96 GB SSD

Just make sure you backup your machine before updating to Win 10.
 
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Dell isn't supporting W10 on my model laptop. In fact, their website doesn't even support Edge and requests you use IE.
That said, for the most part the new OS is running well, but I am having the can't wake from sleep issue. I installed the latest Nvidia driver for my card, but now I'm getting a DPC_Watchdog_Violation error when I try to come out of sleep mode. Wondering if a clean install will fix this?
 
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