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Benchmarking Eve - Windows 7 vs Windows 8
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Klymer
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#21 - 2012-11-02 13:39:33 UTC
Alice Saki wrote:
It's Windows always Skip a Gen.

Don't get Win8


QFT since I can only like a post once.

Kari Juptris
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#22 - 2012-11-02 19:44:29 UTC  |  Edited by: Kari Juptris
I'm hearing a lot of rhetoric about TABLET BAD from people who haven't actually tried to use windows 8, or haven't used it for more than a handful of hours. There is nothing wrong with windows 8. The lack of start menu is quickly overcome after a few days, and there's really not much of a tablet feel to it unless you're running the apps all of the time. It's quite a bit more snappy than windows 7 was, and some of the under the hood features (tickless kernel, forced dll memory address randomization) are pretty cool for geeky reasons.

Windows 8 is a solid technical improvement over windows 7, and the upgrade prices are a steal.
$40 upgrades your 7 Pro/Ultimate copy to 8 Pro, the equivalent of 8 Ultimate.

And as a bonus, if you're not on board with solid state drives yet then the release of windows 8 has provided you the perfect opportunity to join the party.
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
Vote Steve Ronuken for CSM
#23 - 2012-11-02 19:53:33 UTC
Kari Juptris wrote:
I'm hearing a lot of rhetoric about TABLET BAD from people who haven't actually tried to use windows 8, or haven't used it for more than a handful of hours. There is nothing wrong with windows 8. The lack of start menu is quickly overcome after a few days, and there's really not much of a tablet feel to it unless you're running the apps all of the time. It's quite a bit more snappy than windows 7 was, and some of the under the hood features (tickless kernel, forced dll memory address randomization) are pretty cool for geeky reasons.

Windows 8 is a solid technical improvement over windows 7, and the upgrade prices are a steal.
$40 upgrades your 7 Pro/Ultimate copy to 8 Pro, the equivalent of 8 Ultimate.

And as a bonus, if you're not on board with solid state drives yet then the release of windows 8 has provided you the perfect opportunity to join the party.

Not just 7 pro to 8 pro.

7 home premium to 8 pro

Woo! CSM XI!

Fuzzwork Enterprises

Twitter: @fuzzysteve on Twitter
Opertone
State War Academy
Caldari State
#24 - 2012-11-02 19:53:44 UTC
ISD please nerf this stealth Microsoft campaign.

The liter the system, the better. If you disagree, then quit advertising bloated OSes.

This post sums up why the 'best' work with DCM inc.

WARP DRIVE makes eve boring

really - add warping align time 300% on gun aggression and eve becomes great again
De'Veldrin
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#25 - 2012-11-02 20:17:53 UTC
One of my corpies is running Windows 8 on his main Eve machine and is having all sorts of issues trying to get it to dual box.

I am also hearing rumblings that they have made it harder to access things like the environment variables and the like. Since I use my PC to do programming as well as play Eve, that's....unfortunate, if true. Can anyone confirm that?

De'Veldrin's Corollary (to Malcanis' Law): Any idea that seeks to limit the ability of a large nullsec bloc to do something in the name of allowing more small groups into sov null will inevitably make it that much harder for small groups to enter sov null.
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
Vote Steve Ronuken for CSM
#26 - 2012-11-02 20:22:34 UTC  |  Edited by: Steve Ronuken
De'Veldrin wrote:
One of my corpies is running Windows 8 on his main Eve machine and is having all sorts of issues trying to get it to dual box.

I am also hearing rumblings that they have made it harder to access things like the environment variables and the like. Since I use my PC to do programming as well as play Eve, that's....unfortunate, if true. Can anyone confirm that?



Just hit win+q, typed 'environ' and selected 'settings' in the search scope. system and user environment variables pop right up

If the start screen was already up, no win+q needed (it starts the query menu. typing does that on the start menu)

one more click in that case, to specify where to search.

Oh, and I'm running 3 clients on my laptop right now.

Woo! CSM XI!

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