Windows 7 64 bit or Windows 8

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Gottaa

Full Member
Not fussed about the touchscreen, but having used the bosses surface for a few days windows 8 with a mouse would feel pretty un-intuitive (not that I liked how it was with a touchscreen either though to be fair)

Right I'll try and find that same spec but with windows 7

Thanks folks

Edit: OS choices as well it seems
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
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Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
-or-
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit

I *may* do some work from home which would need remote desktop access into the office (not onto the home machine)
 
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Dareos

The Bastard Thats Grinding You Down
get ultimate or enterprise then mate (enterprise is volume license only), got 8 running on an older machine, its quick enough etc, but very very annoying to navigate with mouse and keyboard
 
Tempy

Tempy

Mutley !!
Rdp client comes with win7 home too. There is hardly any point in the professional ++ versions unless you are connecting to a comapny domain.
 
Artanix

Artanix

Full Member
I heard win 8 is good, it just takes a bit of tuning. Once sorted out, its not so touch screen-ish. I haven't tried it though myself.
 
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Aciiid

Full Member
Well I wanted home premium, but ended up buying professional due to the supplier ordering the wrong one for me. Saying that professional does come with a free Microsoft virtual box so you can run a virtual xp machine for those really old games... (it's a free download from MS's site)

The only reason for going higher may be for language support, we had a lecturer here who had to upgrade to get other languages (Russian or something) on his laptop which was really annoying.
 
Chick

Chick

Cartwheel RIGHT
7x64 is a rock solid OS that can't be underestimated.
Win8 is very cool, I've just stopped using it at work due to some minor software incompatibilities and i really miss a number of funky features it has. 7 just feels a bit clunk afterwards. That said i can't really recommend it for general use. wait for the Media/SP1 pack or whatever that will iron out some irritations, unless of course you want to be annoyed by odd things, in which case go for 8.
 
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Gottaa

Full Member
If I was going to get Windows 8 I'd get the start button app which from what I've read makes it a whole load more usable. I'll just get 7 home as although I do connect to work if all else fails I just get Teamviewer as it does really offer anything else, and I know the people who connect from home prefer using Teamviewer now rather than RDP, I'm just used to using RDP from the Mac.
 
Artanix

Artanix

Full Member
I can honestly say the only thing I use the start button for is to search things, I wouldn't miss it that much tbh -.-
 
Chick

Chick

Cartwheel RIGHT
I would really recommend avoiding the startbutton apps too. If you want to use one so badly, use 7, but the start screen is actually really, really cool, slick and useful when you get used to it (which takes about an hour)

My favorite anti-8 complaints are the type that go: "i have hundreds of programs installed on my computer and metro would make finding the right one hard." :facepalm: :)
 
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Gottaa

Full Member
For work I have folders within folders organising code and tools, at home though I use probably 4 different icons

Naughty though Chick, you're making me want 8 with touchscreen now ... gahhh
 
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Kaine

Full Member
i just bought a windows 8 pc a Lenovo A370 or something dont relly see what windows 8 is for ok i get the tiles on the start screen but everytime i click on one it drops into windows 7 desktop to run it
 
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