04-14-2013, 10:46 AM | #136 | |
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its the exact same steps as before excepting right click for all apps instead of left clicking all programs and you dont need to do that if you dont want to . you can just start typing the name of what you want after the first left click. then click when it pops up |
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04-14-2013, 10:50 AM | #137 | |
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You could also have gotten a Chromebook and turned your back on Windows. I am sure that if the next Windows version after 8 isn't OK, then the one after that will be. If not well, I mentioned Chromebook, didn't I? |
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04-14-2013, 02:11 PM | #138 | |
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That said, I only expect to buy one for my high schooler. College boy will be buying his own iron by the time WinTabs become compelling (for him anyway). It'll be two years before his S3 is up for renewal and he has a fairly contemporary laptop and a capable desktop. The wife has already put me on notice that a FireHD is in her very near future. I use whatever the company gives me. |
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Windows 8 blows chunks. There, I said it. I really hate to say that, I LIKE WINDOWS *SAD FACE*.
It's a lock-in. A sad demise of an erstwhile excellent offering. Throw rocks now. design process: Spoiler:
How can this be worse than that? I am aghast. Last edited by twobob; 04-14-2013 at 08:29 PM. |
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Last week I told my husband we should get a new PC before there are no Win7 models left. We have a really old one upstairs and I was afraid if something happened to the main one I'd be in trouble. He got an i5 and I made him take it back for an i7 processor. Best Buy didn't have any Win7, but Microcenter had some. |
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That was likely a good idea with a performance hog like Win7. With Win8 (or Linux), even a Celeron is probably OK
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04-14-2013, 07:36 PM | #142 | |
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Win8 is going to be much like Vista: largely ignored until the next version comes out, then completely forgotten. (And, for that matter, there were more systems with Vista available than Win8.) |
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To me Windows 8 was summed up by my reading a tech reviewer had to resort to googling how to turn his computer off.
While I found Windows 7 acceptable and a lot more bearable to Windows 8 I also didn't really like what Microsoft did to the start menu on 7 either I still miss the cascading start menus of Vista/XP it was just much easier to find everything and I still always set my computers to the classic desktop. |
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A pre-service pack 1 install of XP would probably outperform a pre-service pack install of 7. But if compare the two on the same hardware, with all patches installed, 7 outperforms XP, in my experience.
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04-14-2013, 09:57 PM | #148 |
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In our family we have:
3 ereaders for reading novels only 2 tablets for browsing, reading PDFs and casual gaming. 1 Laptop for browsing and casual gaming and dealing with online transactions. 2 desktop PCs for more high end gaming. The thing is the PCs are pretty old, but are more than enough to handle any games I throw at them. I just don't NEED to upgrade. That and Windows 8 seems a step backwards for a desktop PC to me, I'm very happy with Windows 7. |
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For example, this shows Microsoft Excel 2010 running 9 pecent faster under Win8 than Win7: http://usabilitygeek.com/windows-8-v...mance-testing/ Seems like an apple-to-apples comparison to me. Quote:
I've found Win8 to have few bugs, which isn't, of course, zero bugs. Traditional advice is that if you don't like problems, avoid new Windows operating systems (and Microsoft Office versions) until release of Service Pack 1. In the case of Win8, the equivalent of Service Pack 1 is, according to tech press articles, code-named Windows Blue and expected to be released this year. |
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04-14-2013, 10:12 PM | #150 | |
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To give you some examples: SMP was pretty rare when XP was released and Hyper-Threading wasn't introduced yet, so there was very little point in optimizing XP for concurrent processes. XP also put most of the graphics rendering onto the CPU, possibly because a lot of 2001 vintage low end video cards weren't much better than a frame-buffer at the time. That's just the tip of the iceberg, since there have been an absurd number of changes to PC hardware architecture over the years, none of which an old OS will take advantage of simply because it doesn't know how to use it. |
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