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Hi there
for the applications specified here - a little email, some internet and online shoppimg plus payimg bills a TABLET or MOBILE phone is probably the most sensible sort of device. For this type of stuff one doesn't need a full blown computer anymore.
Even for playing movies a tablet is probably fine - especially if it has an HDMI out where you can plug the tablet into a large screen.
Remember when XP came out no tablets were around and smart phones also didn't exist.
Hardware has changed -- after all these days who even THINKS of buying an iPOD any more as their portable music player - or even an old cassette Sony Walkman. Most phones even cheap ones have a decent built in music player - and trying to find a phone that doesn't have a built in camera is all but impossible.
A lot of people probably would be better off NOT having a full blown computer - whatever OS it was running.
Cheers
jimbo
Um i don't know how work would take it if I left my laptop and brought my tablet.
Also why does crisis 3 look so bad on my tablet? I just cant get the frame rates out of it for some reason. Hahahaha.
But yes i can see your point windows 8 is good for paying bills and watching movies but why buy that when i can buy a computer that can do all that plus work high end video games, and yes be comfortable to me.
I must admit I like a comfortable os. I know some people who have xp. When i try to fix their comp and i forget their control panel layout is different. I haven't had to fix windows xp in so long that i have almost forgotten how to do some of the simplest things. Windows 8 was the worst experience for me ever. To fix it I had to search the internet to learn where anything was. Bing was laughing at me. "You cant find the control panel?"
NobodySpecial: I don't know why the Youtube stretched the window so much, as this has never happened before with Youtube and I can't get it to embed correctly. With just a link you'll have to watch a (MS) commercial.
But the video is an inspiration not for the reason MS wants as it's advertising jingle, but because those of us who have come up with Win7 since beta now form a resistance you are reading about here that to me is heroic, brave and imminently right.
We stand for the best OS ever, one which we helped elevate to the top and don't intend to see smothered in its crib.
I personally risk the highest award in tech - the Microsoft MVP - finally pushing back against this terribly wrong turn, in defense of Win7. But to me the award is worth nothing if what attracted me to tech in the first place, Windows 7, is not given its rightful place until it has a worthy successor.
Until then this is the headquarters for Win7, where we know it best and love it passionately. And we rock!
Last edited by gregrocker; 07 Mar 2014 at 14:42.
Let's just hope manufacturers brands won't do with Windows7 like eg: intel with H77 & Z77 chipsets limitation for Windows Vista. In that case upgrading hardwares for those keeping in mind Windows 7 might be quite tough.