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Originally Posted by jswinden
Good question. I've got a Lenovo Yoga 2 11 with much better specs (Pentium, 4GB RAM, 500GB HD, etc.) and it barely puts along on Windows 8.1. And every week or so you turn it on to see the dreaded, "You've got 9,347,824 updates ready to install. Would you like to install now and hopefully live long enough for Windows to finish?"  I'm thinking those Streams will be slow-motion machines! |
The trick, as it has always been, is to get rid of (or not install) anything that you don't really need. My tablet runs 8,.1 on an Atom processor with 2 GB of RAM, and is more responsive than my desktop at home with 64 bit Win7, 16 GB and a quad core processor, because I am
very picky about what I install on it.
(And it's not Microsoft's fault. It's the vendor you bought it from, who get paid to pre-install loads of
crap, nearly all of which a) runs all the time, and b) spies on you for the software company.)
Yeah, Windows updates is a little slow, but that's true on all versions, not just 8.1.