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Update OS on Old Laptop (will it take?)
my mother had/has an old dell laptop, a studio 1737, Dell Service Tag#: 2TXW6K1. IT has windows vista, and my father wants me to do some maintenance on it, possibly send it to her in new york so she can do more than what she could do on her iPad. Since it has an old OS, i'm thinking/hoping I can update it to either windows 7, 8.1, or 10 (Home Version only, no ultimate or pro variants), but I don't know about 8.1 or 10
From what I saw on its drivers & downloads page, i can choose between 32-bit/64-bit vista, or windows 7 64-bit, so I guess I can update it to windows 7 (unless it fails the hardware requirements to do so), but I don't know if the hardware it has is good enough to support windows 8.1, or even windows 10, and I would like to know if it can upgrade higher than 7. It won't be a problem if it can't, as I might put linux on it and replace the old HP laptop I have that is being a lot of things I can't mention on tenforums without getting banned; Besides the laptop's dell configuration page, attachment with laptop specs as follows (thanks speccy); reply wen able, and thank you all for doing so