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| Thread ID: 124960 | 2012-05-30 03:25:00 | I'm warming to Windows 8 (sort of) | Tony (4941) | PC World Chat |
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| 1278444 | 2012-06-03 06:29:00 | You don't have to have a windows live account to install, only if you want to use the store and presumably messaging - haven't tried that. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1278445 | 2012-06-03 09:01:00 | You don't have to have a windows live account to install, only if you want to use the store and presumably messaging - haven't tried that. Well, not using the store is like buying a galaxy s2 to txt and make phone calls on, nothing else. |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1278446 | 2012-06-03 10:48:00 | Well, not using the store is like buying a galaxy s2 to txt and make phone calls on, nothing else.Silly me - I thought one bought a computer to do work. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1278447 | 2012-06-04 00:01:00 | Silly me - I thought one bought a computer to do work. I work on the win7 partition, not the win8 one. Also, ie10 metro..... awful. Would love an opera metro app. But, with no access to the app store you're stuck with the apps that come with it. not my idea of a computer. Still, easy to sign up for a win live account though. |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1278448 | 2012-06-04 22:09:00 | I have installed the W8 Rease canditate on a Motion CL900 tablet and am liking it a lot. Sure, there is a learning curve finding out where everything is but learning is fun. I think the minimalist approach of the the metro apps is going to be good for people coming to computers for the first time. Things like the touch response, camera and onscreen keyboard are working better than they did in W7. I will deifinitely be buying it for the tablet and my HP Touchsmart desktop too. | McGinty48 (14880) | ||
| 1278449 | 2012-06-04 22:25:00 | I have installed the W8 Rease canditate on a Motion CL900 tablet and am liking it a lot. Sure, there is a learning curve finding out where everything is but learning is fun. I think the minimalist approach of the the metro apps is going to be good for people coming to computers for the first time. Things like the touch response, camera and onscreen keyboard are working better than they did in W7. I will deifinitely be buying it for the tablet and my HP Touchsmart desktop too.I have always thought W8 will be good on tablets and laptops with touchscreens/touchpads. However for the rest of us desktop PC users, it offers very few improvements and a lot of backward steps. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1278450 | 2012-06-04 22:48:00 | I have always thought W8 will be good on tablets and laptops with touchscreens/touchpads. However for the rest of us desktop PC users, it offers very few improvements and a lot of backward steps. yup, couldn't agree more. Look a this (www.pcmag.com). |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1278451 | 2012-06-05 00:53:00 | I had the previous release running on a pentium 4 quite well, this new version keeps telling me the CPU doesn't support windows 8 and refuses to install. Makes me wonder if the 32bit DL is really 64bit or something, the system requirements say 1Ghz or better for the CPU and this is a 3.2Ghz P4 with hyperthreading. Just my muck about junk machine I play with to save screwing up the good ones, built for free from 2 dead machines. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1278452 | 2012-06-05 03:17:00 | Yes, I had the previous release on an old P4, as well, but now, no-go. The error 5D is because the install is now checking whether the CPU/BIOS can handle the NX feature (No execute security measure). These old systems fail that test. Bit of a beggar as it was a good use of an old PC. W8 ran surprisingly well, too. |
linw (53) | ||
| 1278453 | 2012-06-05 03:22:00 | I have bought myself a HP Presario CQ57-104TU Notebook PC. It runs on a 2.10 GHz processor with only 2 GB of RAM. I have loaded Windows 8 Release Preview 64-bit onto it. No problems getting Windows 8 to run on it and speed is good. Windows 8 is taking some getting used to and I do wish that it had a start menu similar to Windows 7. I do not like the Internet Explorer that comes with Windows 8 so I loaded in Firefox which works well. I have also loaded Gimp 2, Open Office, Nitro, Vitamin D Video, Wordweb, Picasa 3, and Google Earth on the Notebook. No problems with any of these programmes. My cat jumped up and tapped on my keyboard. I let out a roar and off she scooted. I looked at my screen and discovered that she had brought up the so called start menu. I was dumbfounded about how she had done that but the cat was not clever enough to tell me what she had done. I suspect that the cat had pressed the windows key. Below is an old picture that I took of my cat as a kitten, she used to sit there and stare at the screen. |
Bobh (5192) | ||
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