Windows 8 Tutorials

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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

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/

EDIT: Also Shameless Plug We're heavily featured in this tut http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/9564-run-administrator-windows-8-a.html

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My move to Windows 8 on my laptop was painless, as I just reformatted the RC partition and popped it on there. :)

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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

EDIT: This is the Most Important Tutorial of them all, you're really cursed if you don't follow the instructions perfectly. http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/126-first-tutorial-upgrading-7-8-a.html

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Indeed, I'd be lost without that one!

I think that driver issues should be mitigated as it is version 6.2, so at least we wont have the driver catastrophe of Windows Vista's days.

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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 can count a few times it saved me!!!

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naw it's not that I didn't have the driver it's that the required Verizon firmware refused to work in 7 correctly (and thus would overheat and die)

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Ah!!! I see. If you ran the XP driver under 7 in XP compatibility mode, how would it work?

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Nope plus I can't really do anything anymore as the device is gonzo (i.e. not trying to troubleshoot a 2 year old issue ;) )

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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.

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8 comes preloaded with lots of printer drivers :wub:

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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.

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How about the Microsoft Surface?

Sony came out with 2 interesting tablet/desktops

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I don't like that the surface has an Arm processor. It can run all of the windows applications that the full blown windows 8 computers can.

If it was 300 or less I would have gotten the surface. But for 600 with the keyboard I'll pass.

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strangely, according to Gizmodo, there will be a x86 surface later on

Surface—and other Windows tablets that follow it—will come in both Windows RT and full Windows varietals(sic).

http://gizmodo.com/5952934/what-windows-rt-cant-do

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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. :P

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Sony's got an 11 pound "tablet" coming out (or is out)

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Sony's got an 11 pound "tablet" coming out (or is out)

Ouch!!! I can use that for weightlifting! :o

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http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/sony-announces-20-inch-11-pound-vaio-tablet-pc-with-windows-8-20121011/

20 inch, 11 pounds :lol: