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WarGreymon77 posted...

I have always hated XP, though one reason could because both PCs I've had that had XP on them were Pentium 4's.

Wasn't P4 like the pinnacle of intel chips before multi-cores became a thing? What do you have against them?

Depends on the era, imo. Later high end chips just ran ridiculously hot by their design, all their speed essentially came from clock speed. Intel later figured out how to work their best features, like hyperthreading, into more efficient designs, but at the time it was brute force trying to keep pace with AMD's Athlon. Of course, earlier in the P4's life cycle the whole RDRAM shit storm was reaching critical mass, though Rambus today is basically just a patent troll.