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Originally Posted by porsche4life View Post
You guys realize that you did the equivalent of installing windows 8 on a computer originally sold with XP. Of course it doesn't work as well on older slower hardware. It was designed for the newer faster chipsets.
^this is why I don't upgrade operating systems unless absolutely necessary. My Apple devices (ipad2 and iphone 5) are both still running ios6. I've run into 1 app so far that I was interested in that I couldn't use because it required ios7. Same deal with my windows PCs - resist any and all software updates.

I've been following this practice for years and it helps to stretch out the useful life of the hardware considerably.
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