I have an 8 yo gateway laptop. works fine for my couple of games and just keeping up with finance but I decided to get serious about learning to code. Tried to install Visual Studio Community and it said my operating system(Vista) was out of date. So should I buy a new computer or try to upgrade this one?
Model Name: gateway
graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce 9800m gts
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.27 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
Memory: 4 GB
C: drive 88gb
D: drive 88 gb
I can order windows 7 for $8 from amazon, but I am not sure why they are so cheap. So a little suspicious not to mention I would still only be at Windows 7. I might could even update to windows 10. Then again....amazing laptops are ridiculously cheap. I am not sure what I should be getting but, I see some amazing specs for under $400. Obviously if I start to get serious about this I will need a new laptop pretty soon anyways.
What do I do?