Scothew

Some surface pro info.

http://m.tomshardware.com/news/Windo...-rt,20617.html

stupidgenius36

Meh, too expensive. I'm just waiting for the prices to come down. I'm thinking about buying a used Windows 7 tablet and putting 8 on it in the mean time.

Scothew

Just did that with an acer iconia tablet we had. Worked well

stupidgenius36

Good to hear. Any issues?

Scothew

Nope not a bit.

Since hte system didnt have an optical drive, i used a jump drive. I downloaded the ISO off our action pack, and had to use a utility to make a bootable image on the flash drive. The utility works great, you can get it from microsoft at http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/...usbdvd_dwnTool

denlem

Well, it's been a week with Windows 8 on the media center PC and no issues so far. Been running just as smooth as 7.

Friday night I took the bigger plunge on put it on my regular PC. Same motherboard as the media center, just more memory and less drive space. All has been working well there too.

Nathan, if you end up with a new laptop with it, give it a chance. It's not as bad as you think it is. Yes, you have to learn a few new keystrokes and some things look a little different, but i'm finding it very easy to do. You don't have to look at all the tiles all the time either, since you still have to old desktop, but I do find myself going back to the tiles.

Blue Notch

I'm pretty much dead set on getting a mac. I just have way too much hatred for the horrid tiles.

myponyandme

Windows 8 is growing on me. The more I use it, the more I like it. Till I can buy the Mac I want, I guess I'll continue buying these disposable computers from HP. lol

denlem

You do realize that the "tiles" are the same as your desktop links you have now, just a different shape and color?

stangfoeva

and annoying!

denlem

They annoy me all day by doing what I ask them to do, and with only a single click instead of a double click.

cdynaco

change settings to all single click

cdynaco

I guess they've turned disposable. I've had great luck from HP since 94. Tried a Dell in 01 but won't again. But this latest HP took a dump at 13 months. And Staples sucks! I'm currently on my old backup HP from 07 that still works (except that Bill Gates crap won't update Windows suddenly. And hours of trying their fixes didn't work).

shurtual86

Are you running Vista or Win7?

Blue Notch

But I also hate the shapes and the colors. The whole design is just hideous!

cdynaco

The 13 month old one that failed had 7.
The 07 one I'm using now has Vista Svc Pack 2. I get error 800B0100. Download the fix KB97 something. Runs for about 20 mins, says its fixed, until you try Windows Update again - same error.
I tried restore to an earlier date, didn't help.
Signed up and downloaded MS FixIt. Didn't.

shurtual86

Hmm, you said you bought it at Staples? Just wondering, because I've heard of this happening with counterfeit versions of Win7. I'll see if I can find any more info on this later ( the battery on my phone is almost dead).

myponyandme

That happened with me with a Gateway I bought from Staples. It lasted exactly 13 months too. Taught me to buy extra warranty. Lol. They wanted almost as much money as a new computer to fix it. My computers always die when I'm broke :/ But my last HP did last for 5 years before it took a ****.

Good luck lol

Scothew

Finally got around to setting up that machine with the vertex4 SSD. Its a dell optiplex with 8GB ram, i5 3.40ghz, 256gb SSD, sata III, and win 7 pro. After tweaking everything, like where the OS boots using all cpu cores, disabling the PXE boot and all since none of that is needed, from a cold start, to windows desktop and being 100% useable (i.e. launching programs and surfing net), and with typing in a complex password, 26.1 seconds. friggin love it!

denlem

Booting using all cores? Wouldn't it do that normally?