Windows 8
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GlasgowGaryH
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If you download classic shell from sourceforge you can have your start button back with either windows xp,vista or 7 start. Also it bypasses the metro screen all for free.
JoeyB
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Not sure what all the fuss is about... The start menu has just been given a steriod injection which will benefit mobile device users... Other than that it has all the same functionality in desktop mode.
I need a cheap way to get XP off one of my machines, so the £24.99 Win8 upgrade path will do the job for me. It won't go anything else just yet, mind.
I need a cheap way to get XP off one of my machines, so the £24.99 Win8 upgrade path will do the job for me. It won't go anything else just yet, mind.
subaqua
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when windows 7 came out everybody anmd there dog said they designed it. haven't heard anybody claim windows 8 yet. we too need a new desktop and am looking at a nice acer with win 7 on for a lot less than i would have paid a month ago
Peteaud
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Xp was and still is the best.
phil_hg_uk
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XP is good on an older pc or a netbook but windows 7 on my desktop is excellent, mind you it is a quad i5 with 8gb of Ram
MrJamie
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Yeah, the reviews by people always tend to be polarised too an OS is either awesome or terrible, rarely inbetween and often gets decided by how well the early release goes and how resistant people are to change. My understanding is that the latter versions of Vista with its servicepacks were actually good, but like you say the early versions had compatibility issues compounded by it being installed as standard on budget machines that werent upto it - my friend bought an acer laptop with 500mb of ram and it was next to useless. Even the beloved XP was terrible when it was first launched, frequenty security problems and compatibility issues IME.
Im still unsure if i should upgrade to windows 8, it was inevitable it would be disliked after the popularity of win7. Theres been that trend of each OS alternating between awesome and terrible in peoples eyes arguably back to 3.1(1) > 95 > 98 > ME > XP > Vista > Win7 > Win 8. My understanding is that you dont have to use Metro, just stay in desktop mode and use the quicksearch in place of the start bar and your commonly used apps should be shortcut/pinned anyway. I think the issue is most people used win7 like they did XP, but should have been pinning apps, launching things from the search rather than trawling through programs, otherwise the jump away from a start bar wouldnt be so harsh. I might upgrade my XP machine and see how it goes
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twentysix by twentyfive
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Well my trawling through machines has thrown this up
http://www.medion.com/gb/prod/MEDION®+AKOYA®+P5363+E+(MD8318)/310016298
Apparently max RAM is 8GB. What limits RAM size? Is this machine any good for the price?
http://www.medion.com/gb/prod/MEDION®+AKOYA®+P5363+E+(MD8318)/310016298
Apparently max RAM is 8GB. What limits RAM size? Is this machine any good for the price?
JoeyB
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Just had to fix a friends Medion...in its defence it was a virus attack that spooned it, not the hardware. They knock these out at Aldi...
Scruffmonster
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Get a Mac...
A 3 Year Old one on Gumtree/eBay will be a better investment than a new windows machine.
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twentysix by twentyfive
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I was wondering about a Mac. Want to fly a simulator tho'. Not sure if it's compatible........
Depends what you want it for, a mac is about as useful as a chocolate fire guard for me, unless I install windows.
That and I have never owned an apple product and intend to keep it that way.
Scruffmonster
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A quick google would find that out quickly enough.
People can debate Mac Vs Windows*, personally I feel there's no contest.
For all of the Mac/Windows debates out there, there's never really any that discuss operating systems. They work. I can just as easily use a 10 year old iMac as a 2013 MacBook Air. The principles remain essentially the same, and things evolve sensibly rather than go through a revolution every 3 years.
Those are my thoughts.
* = I say Windows. A savvy techy running something other than windows on a great spec PC will claim that it out-performs a Mac for 50% of the outlay... which is probably true but kind of misses the point. I assumed from your question that we're talking out of the box simplicity.
JoeyB
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My next machine will be a Mac of some sort...ideally a MBP with thunderbolt displays.
