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So I don't know the specs, but its about 4 years old, around $600 at time of buying, so I assume dual core, 2Ghz, 2-4 gigs of ram... running win7 now. thinking about giving it a fresh OS, would win 7, 8.1, or 10 be best to put onto it?

go with windows 7          windows 8.1 you may run into compatibility issues 

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So I don't know the specs, but its about 4 years old, around $600 at time of buying, so I assume dual core, 2Ghz, 2-4 gigs of ram... running win7 now. thinking about giving it a fresh OS, would win 7, 8.1, or 10 be best to put onto it?

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I would do ubuntu, because it is light. But between 7 and 8.1 it's just what you prefer.

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run cpu-z on it and it will tell you the specs

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i would put windows 7 on that laptop

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So I don't know the specs, but its about 4 years old, around $600 at time of buying, so I assume dual core, 2Ghz, 2-4 gigs of ram... running win7 now. thinking about giving it a fresh OS, would win 7, 8.1, or 10 be best to put onto it?

go with windows 7          windows 8.1 you may run into compatibility issues 

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run cpu-z on it and it will tell you the specs

I don't have it with me, it's someone elses...  Im just asking for them.

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Vista for sure.

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