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| Thread ID: 127763 | 2012-11-12 07:41:00 | Is Win8 worth the change ? | cowboy stu (7021) | Press F1 |
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| 1312110 | 2012-11-12 07:41:00 | For a desktop/office setup happy with win7 but enjoy tech upgrade, challenges is it worth it ? Have read more negatives than positives so any experiences and advice for non touch screen users appreciated. cheers. |
cowboy stu (7021) | ||
| 1312111 | 2012-11-12 07:47:00 | If you enjoy windows 7 then I see no reason to upgrade. | Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1312112 | 2012-11-12 08:17:00 | There's no harm in trying something new :) | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1312113 | 2012-11-12 08:32:00 | Already running Windows 7 then I would say "No." You won't really gain much except the App store and perhaps annoyances more than anything. If you were running Vista then I would say "Yes." Vista was just a total disaster and moving to Win8 make your machine run so much better without needing a hardware upgrade. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1312114 | 2012-11-12 08:36:00 | ok so not being convinced so far except for change for change's sake with no real advantage ... correct interpretation ? | cowboy stu (7021) | ||
| 1312115 | 2012-11-12 08:55:00 | Pretty much, you could grap a trial version or something and dual boot (like what I have done) to get a feel and see how things work. IMO, GREAT for portables/touch based. OK for desktop and rather poor for laptops. I found using the trackpad involved too much mouse movement to get things done. Sure I have only spent a few hours on it. Adaptation will come! |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1312116 | 2012-11-12 09:06:00 | Some people like W8, some don't. Its really personal choice. Got a spare HDD ?? Download the 90 Day Trial Enterprise Version - One set of links are: Download/Windows-8-Download (www.softpedia.com) or if you have a MS live Account, sign in and download it directly from MS :msdn.microsoft.com Install it on a spare drive and try it for yourself. If you want to purchase it, then at least you'll know what you are getting, if you don't like it, then all its cost is a bit of bandwidth and time. The links are only a Trial so if you decided to buy it you would need to uninstall it as install from fresh. The enterprise version has one feature all the others don't - Its called Windows to Go - meaning you can install it on a USB drive and plug it into other PC's and boot from the USB drive. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1312117 | 2012-11-12 09:06:00 | thanks for your thoughts. I have an upgrade for $20 to use but not sure if worth the effort ! | cowboy stu (7021) | ||
| 1312118 | 2012-11-12 09:09:00 | thanks Waitech may give that a go ... so if i install to a diff partition or external drive ? | cowboy stu (7021) | ||
| 1312119 | 2012-11-12 09:12:00 | NO. Stay with your Win7. I am about to go back to Win7. Problems one after another. no driver for this, no driver for that., not compatible with this, not compatible with that! Personally, it's worse than Vista. Only it loads faster than Win 7. |
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