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| Tektronix TLA7000 series CPU, memory and OS upgrade useful? |
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| MindBender:
Hi everyone, My Tektronix TLA7012 logic analyzer runs Windows XP on its Pentium M CPU with 1GiB of RAM. As a measurement instrument it works fine, so there is no real need. But if I understood correctly, these instruments are still being sold, albeit with an i5 CPU @2.7GHz, 8GiB of RAM running Windows 7. The CPU, even though it's a mobile type, is socketed. It is useful to upgrade this instrument with an i5 CPU, as much RAM I can fit and Windows 7? Or even Windows 10? Has anybody even done this? Cheers, Robert. |
| Jwalling:
Windows 10?! Why would you want to downgrade your machine? :-DD |
| Scratch.HTF:
How about a project to convert test equipment to run on Linux? |
| nctnico:
I wouldn't bother 'upgrading'. A newer Windows version is more like a downgrade than an upgrade due to needing more resources. A useful upgrade will be an SSD and more memory. Don't expect the software to become any faster though. The software is sloooow by design and it doesn't load the CPU 100%. |
| MindBender:
That's a sensible suggestion. An SSD is easy to install, just like RAM, and it will probably do a lot more than a faster CPU, with all the risks attached to installing it and the BIOS not supporting it. |
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