| | | That's the reason I gave up on having Windows 7 on a Boot Camp partition on my iMac. I hadn't booted into Windows in about 8 months, so of course it needed to install a huge number of updates. The computer was unusable while doing that, and I let it run overnight. In the morning, I got notice on screen that the updates failed, so it restored to a previous system point and I was back to where I started.
I'd had enough of the shenanigans at that point and decided to blow away the 300GB Windows partition I'd allotted and recover the space for use with macOS. There were very few things I needed to run on Windows 7, and I've never regretted getting rid of it.
Don't get me wrong, I liked Windows 7 better than any version of Windows before or since, but enough was enough.
Obviously if I'd used it regularly the updates wouldn't have been as much of an issue, though I had noticed Windows 7 had slowed down substantially since I first installed it –– a typical problem of PCs using Windows in general that I believe still exists today.
I'm still using a Mid-2011 iMac running High Sierra that came out in the fall of 2017, it's the last version of macOS it will run. That's 7 major versions of OS X/macOS from what originally came installed on this machine and the only upgrade I made was to install more RAM, and it runs nearly as fast as it did 8 years ago.
Not sure how many 8-year-old Windows PCs can claim similar performance and longevity. |
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