Should I buy windows 7 or windows 8?

DeaconFrost said:

If you are buying the system brand new, make sure you have a choice, or atleast that it comes with Windows 7 with a cheap upgrade option to Windows 8.

I recently bought an HP Envy 4, and bought the $15 Windows 8 upgrade. I don't know when or if I plan to install WIndows 8 on it, but I have it (cheap) just in case.

Best way to do it. I can afford a $15 mistake if it comes to that, but not being locked into a crappy OS is worth much more.

Do you think it's worth it to buy windows 7 thrn downgrade?

Just get it with Windows 7.............I can almost guarantee you won't want Windows 8 on that kind of laptop. I think it's worth it to get it with Win7 and wait to see if Win8 flops and they try to give it away later on lol

I would say that Win7 is for real computer (desktop or notebook) while Win8 is more suited to phones and tablets.
But a better option would be to try it yourself. Download the trial version on Win8 and see if you like it.

Layback Bear said:

Window 7/64 for sure with your Asus G75. In my opinion Windows 8 is for touch screen throw away toys like tablets and such.

100% agree!
I guess Win8 will have a similar fate to Vista and ME.

whs said:

Layback Bear said:

All those companies are putting their/there money on this new toy computer market but Microsoft has a advantage. They know us P/C users will just set back and wait until Microsoft makes another real operating system again (Windows 9) and then we will buy.

Yeah, right - that's probably what we'll have to do - wait.

What makes anyone think that MS will ever make "another real operating system", Windows 9, 10 or otherwise?

What would cause that to happen, unless Win 8 is widely regarded as a flop beyond Windows ME? Who knows, it may be less of a flop than us whiners think.

I'd like to believe mouse and keyboard types will not be treated like second-class citizens, but I'm wondering if the trend toward touch screen devices is so strong that we are doomed and that Win 7 is the high point for all time for traditional desktops.

How much would you wager that Win 9 will not be more of the same?

whs said:

I don't think it would take very much to make "us whiners" happy.

I absolutely agree.

But the fact that MS at the highest levels chose not to adapt the UI to traditional users tells me that MS thinks the mouse and keyboard are permanently on the wane.

Unless you think Windows 9 will be a reversion to traditional form, but what is the evidence of that?