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Offline ElPolloDiabl

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Re: Surface 3 - New direction, higher prices aimed at corperate customers and crappy
« on: May 23, 2014, 05:23:39 AM »
I'm expecting desktop offerings to come to a grinding halt pretty soon. Laptops will just have a small selection to choose from.
If you dig around and if you don't mind paying more you can still get that rarer hardware.
Windows 8 could have thrown a lot of people off, but really they would have tried to stay on Windows 7. Thankfully the mfgrs are pulling back from touchscreen everything.
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Re: Surface 3 - New direction, higher prices aimed at corperate customers and crappy
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2014, 08:49:32 AM »
If tablets are popular, then by default a desktop or 'the old ways' are bad.
Its probably just another fad. People get excited about new technology.
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Re: Surface 3 - New direction, higher prices aimed at corperate customers and crappy
« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2014, 01:34:20 AM »
When I put 8GB it made no difference. Windows defaults to using the Virtual memory. Put a faster hard drive in and increase the size of your virtual memory and Windows will be faster and crash less.
You can manually make the OS use a ram disk, but that is more things to set up.
By default Windows is horrible. If you trim down the default install you could get it running well.
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Re: Surface 3 - New direction, higher prices aimed at corperate customers and crappy
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2014, 08:49:19 PM »
Windows 95 was buggy until more programs were written for it. The other complaint was that you needed 4MB of memory to run it.
I didn't like Windows 98 because it integrated Internet Explorer with everything. Plus you needed 32MB to run it. Windows 98 may have been more stable.

I like Linux because you can get a small install and there are versions that are point and click except for preparing the hard drive.
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Re: Surface 3 - New direction, higher prices and crappy i3
« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2014, 12:10:59 PM »
Those lovely modern OSes you have to figure out if it is a tap, a slide, a tap twice.
To close an app Windows 8: Top left corner with the mouse and right click.
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Re: Surface 3 - New direction, higher prices and crappy i3
« Reply #5 on: June 04, 2014, 06:23:54 PM »
Windows 8 is dodgy on purpose, so you will keep buying upgrades. :(
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Re: Surface 3 - New direction, higher prices and crappy i3
« Reply #6 on: June 09, 2014, 03:33:17 AM »
It doesn't having anything to draw you to it. e.g. Windows 3.11 not much over Amiga. Windows 95, was more interesting.

I can't believe how much stuff doesn't work nowadays. Sometimes it's just adobe player crashing. Otherwise it will be searching through several driver revisions, because backwards compatibility is removed.
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