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Thinking of a new Laptop, what do you all think?
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New #52
I don't know as I haven't gotten my hands on a Win8 PC yet.
Haven't had time either since we are swamped here helping with the best OS ever which is only three years old and wildly popular.
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Posts : 21,004 Desk1 7 Home Prem / Desk2 10 Pro / Main lap Asus ROG 10 Pro 2 laptop Toshiba 7 Pro Asus P2520 7 & 10New #53
Yes mate I wished I had kept my old dual boot to try it now. Mind you it will,be 2020 before I shall be going 8 to me it's a bit like fixing an unbroken wheel apart from the small apps I just don't think it's necessary if even then.
I'm 7 all the way:) if I could hep you I would but I am only just savvy enough to turn the thing on
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New #55
Okay, the new laptop works great, Guild Wars 2 on ultra settings got me 39 FPS and a max CPU temp of 62 degrees Celsius.
The old laptop was at 11 FPS on minimum settings with a max CPU temp of 95 degrees Celsius.
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New #56
Is that with Win8? Is Metro loaded, or are you using the Win7 explorer shell from Ex7ForW8? I'd benchmark both.
Are you going to Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7?
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New #57
Right now just win8, will try the win7 shell after all my data is transferred over.
This will be after I get off of work, just gotta research about how to implement the shell, I am in new water here. I don't like the idea of going through 3-4 menus to shutdown the computer, luckily all windows 7 keyboard shortcuts work, like Alt+F4, which I use to shutdown. I also don't like how certain applications won't shutdown there is no option, only Task Manager or Alt+F4 will close them. These are any programs built into Windows, they try to stay resident in memory.Last edited by tlarseth; 23 Nov 2012 at 23:38.
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New #58
Hmmmm... if you have an older laptop running Windows 7 and you upgrade, what if the BIOS chip doesn't support the Win8 Activation encoding? Does Microsoft only utilize it if available, but otherwise do the Win7 method?
My mother is in dire need of a new laptop (we've squeezed all we can out of XP so it's time), and I'm recommending she go with a Win7 installed laptop. Few retailer websites are making them available. Thankfully HP still allows you to buy a Win7 installed new laptop directly from their website at pretty decent prices. For $50 you can buy a 32Gb boot cache too (can't find other sites making this available, including Dell). SSD's bought with a new laptop are absurdly overpriced. Better to get a traditional HD installed and then buy an SSD separately.
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New #59
If your bios doesnt support win8 key storage, it then stores encrypted in Windows.
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New #60
I believe the new Win8 BIOS-chip coded Product Keys are for factory OEM only.
On Win8 machines it's turning out that the new Secure Boot protection must be turned off to UPDowngrade Windows 8 to Windows 7
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