Upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for only $39.99!

[tone007]

Not even Windows 3.1 was this inexpensive!

http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2012/07/02/upgrade-to-windows-8-pro-for-39-99.aspx

I wonder how it'll sell.  I think the low price will make it move.

[tone007]

[tone007]

Said game is a Windows x86 game, not Windows RT.  He's essentially bought a $600 paperweight, the little game she planned to play on the machine will not work in the least on RT.  To say he's pissed off is an understatement.

Someone bought a $600 device solely to play one shareware game?  No wonder Apple sells so many iPads.

[tone007]

I use Linux a lot, mostly on 4+ year old laptops with (by now) fairly well-supported hardware when I think something like Xubuntu would outperform Windows 7.  However, there is the occasional issue of a WiFi chipset not being supported out of the box, usually easily remedied by using something like an "install third-party drivers" option while hooked up to Ethernet (which always seems to work for me.)

However, I've got a newer laptop here with some (probably) less-well supported hardware, Alienware with a hybrid nVidia/Intel video chipset.  I'm going to download one distro (Fedora, probably not the friendliest one to start with) and give it 10 minutes to see if I can get it running well enough to be a daily driver. Lets see what happens.

[tone007]

I use Linux a lot, mostly on 4+ year old laptops with (by now) fairly well-supported hardware when I think something like Xubuntu would outperform Windows 7.  However, there is the occasional issue of a WiFi chipset not being supported out of the box, usually easily remedied by using something like an "install third-party drivers" option while hooked up to Ethernet (which always seems to work for me.)

However, I've got a newer laptop here with some (probably) less-well supported hardware, Alienware with a hybrid nVidia/Intel video chipset.  I'm going to download one distro (Fedora, probably not the friendliest one to start with) and give it 10 minutes to see if I can get it running well enough to be a daily driver. Lets see what happens.

Fedora 17, 645MB ISO, 20 minutes to download, ~7 minutes to burn to CD, ~10 minutes to install to HD and that's all, everything supported out of the box. Runs nice.



-Posted from Fedora Linux

[tone007]

Well, I downloaded Win8 from MSDN, can't say I'm a fan.  I could get used to the tiley interface, and it does run at least as quickly as 7 did, but I don't enjoy the two or three unhappy face "" errors (think sad Mac) and reboots I've received in the week or so I've had it installed.  Guess I'll have to go back to 7, or stick to Fedora until SP1.