So, against my better judgement, I decided to go for it and buy Windows 8 Pro (amazon was selling for 69.99 boxed and giving a $30 Amazon Credit on top of it... Deal still good until the end of OCT 20th)
And so to prepare, though I may not install it right away, I've gone to a sister site of a site that helped me greatly with my move to windows 7.
So I present you the Tutorial section for eightforums.com
I'm mostly worried about drivers as that's what got me on the upgrade to seven, I lost my Verizon-mobile-modem. I don't have my drive multi-boot partitioned or anything this is a all or nothing jump into the 8 on a made-for-vista laptop
I'm mostly worried about drivers as that's what got me on the upgrade to seven, I lost my Verizon-mobile-modem.
That's why I use Double Driver to back all the drivers up, then I open Device Manager & point devices without a driver to that folder & let it re-install them.
Sure, Windows Update + manufacturer website can fix some problems, but this can (literally) save your hide.
I've never had a device (from the pre-Windows-7 era) that didn't automagically acquire drivers and work perfectly the first time I plugged it in. Hopefully 8 is the same.
Was at bestbuy yesterday and saw an awesome laptop called a lenovo yoga. The screen flipped back making it like a tablet. I was going to build a windows 8 desktop. I might get this instead. It really felt awesome using the new interface on a touchscreen. Was $1000... think I'm gonna go for it If I don't see anything cooler.
I think those are going to be the "surface pro" tablets that they announced a while ago. I bet they are about $1000 as well. For that I think I'd rather have that Yoga laptop I was playing with. Ugh... I don't need another laptop. It was pretty cool though. I'll post pics of it if I cant talk myself out of it.