Thread: HP Stream -- aka Chromebook killer?
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Old 10-02-2014, 04:18 AM   #41
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not so. with Win 8.1 "WIMBoot" the os takes only 3GB http://hothardware.com/News/Microsof...Of-Disk-Space/
Well, I hadn't seen WIMBoot before (I'm firmly in the Linux world now), but I see it uses compressed files and pointers to these compressed files in the uncompressed section of the drive. So, you're right, it takes up less space ... but it also has the potential 1) to be slower (compression/decompression over and over again) and 2) for serious corruption. If the pointers get corrupted I can see the whole thing crashing.

And, with Windows, along with the OS, you need to add anti-virus, which adds to the overhead.
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