10-18-2012, 09:17 PM | #121 |
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10-19-2012, 06:18 AM | #122 |
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Man, you can say what you want,
I'm all for the hardware, if it lasted a while on a battery charge, but I'm totally not for the operating system! Give me XP over anything else. Many have seen that windows 7 probably uses only 25% more resources than xp, while the hardware has sped up by over 2-4x, and they found it acceptable, but windows 8 is really not a nice version to be working with... It's a step backward, back on the same level as Windows 3.11 if you ask me! Almost no control, no flexibility, runs slow on those slower tablet processors, is too large in size for an OS; and most of the time, the OS is not even able to do what you want to do, and if it does it, it won't do it very well, nor very fast! |
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10-19-2012, 07:54 AM | #123 | |
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10-19-2012, 08:14 AM | #124 | |
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I have used and worked on DOS and Windows based PCs. I think Windows 8 is fast. Boots up on my old Pentium 4 PC in less than 30 seconds. IE10 is a vast improvement over IE9. I hardly use IE9 opting for Google Chrome instead. For the average PC owner Windows 8 simplifies the use of their PC. The Metro interface kind of grows on you once you use it. I'm not sure what you mean by lack of control because everything is there and very accessible. If you press the Windows key + X you can go under the hood of Windows 8. For those missing the old desktop, it's there. Missing the Start Menu, download Start8 by Stardock. |
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10-19-2012, 08:18 AM | #125 |
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Windows 8 hasn't launched yet and there's already dozens of *free* start Button replacements. Some are even good.
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-33642_7...for-windows-8/ Think of them as bicycle training wheels, useful to get started but they'll soon come off for good. |
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10-19-2012, 08:40 AM | #126 |
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On my Windows tablet, 7 took forever to boot. From a full off, it boots the Windows 8 consumer preview in about 15 seconds.
Just timed my iPad 3; I get to stare at the apple for 49 seconds from full off. Never been impressed by the boot time of Apple's mobile devices. |
10-19-2012, 08:48 AM | #127 | |
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10-19-2012, 08:56 AM | #128 |
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10-19-2012, 09:15 AM | #129 |
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Agreed. I've only had to reboot my iOS devices about once or twice (it's older stuff, iOs 4). My android devices (range from gingerbread to ICS) all benefit from a daily "booting", and take 30-60 secs. Win7 laptop takes a (perceived) etenity come to life.
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10-19-2012, 09:54 AM | #132 |
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I never understood - using the "hibernate" (or "suspend-to-disk") mode on my XP laptop as "normal" procedure that saves the current RAM contents to harddisk and retrieves them again in ~ 15 seconds, why nobody has, so far, incorporated that into booting ... writing a copy of a "clean boot" RAM to harddisk and load that instead of going through the complete boot procedure.
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