All You Win XP Stragglers
Well, there are still about 30% of ALL PCs on the planet still running XP despite constant warnings from MS to dump it by this April 8, after which there will no longer be OS patches or other update s...
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Thunder Mountain wrote:
Had enough time to play with it to tell that while the Windows 8.1 touch screen is a steep learning curve, it seemed stable. 8.1 is a huge/complex operating system requiring a lot of resources e.g. i5 or i7 processor and 6 to 8 gigs of memory.
Although Windows 8.1 has deservedly received much criticism, IMHO this is pretty much "over the top." We have two laptops running Windows 8.1. One is a touchscreen Dell powered by an i3 processor and runnng 64-bit Windows in 4 GB of RAM. The other is a non-touchscreen Dell running 64-bit Windows with an i7 processor and 8 GB of RAM. Both machines run well; there's little noticeable difference between them unless you try a direct comparison of a complex task.
As for Windows 8.1 touch-screen being a "steep learning curve", our touchscreen laptop is my DW's and she is not at all a savvy computer user. I intentionally left all of Windows 8.1's features intact on her computer so she could decide which ones she liked. So far she's had no trouble adjusting to the system and creating her own mix of things she does with the touch screen and those things for which she prefers to use the traditional keyboard and touchpad.
