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u/joels4321 · 3 pointsr/windows8

You might consider the Asus T100 laptop/tablet convertible which you can get in the 32gb for $319 at Amazon,com

The 32gb doesn't leave a lot of disk space, but you can add 64gb card later. Or Amazon has the 64gb for $379

I have one and I love it. It actually replaced a Lenovo x230 I had and works great. It's fast enough to handle most PC tasks like web, email, browsing, etc and can run Office fine too. It'll run some games too, but for the newest ones you'll need to turn down the graphics to low. They've updated all the drivers/bios quite a bit and it's very stable.

You'll get a nice touchscreen laptop, and a very capable tablet too. 8hr battery life, it's a good deal. Good luck!

u/dathar · 1 pointr/windows8

^ this.

First to take from this is the CPU that your laptop is using. HP's documentation on it shows that the processor is an AMD E1-1500. Check out this chart for some comparison purposes:

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/midlow_range_cpus.html

Oh man. There's 6+ year old processors that went past that CPU. A friggin Netburst Pentium went past it. I'm not just ragging out your CPU, but I was bitten by a very similar one in my Acer W500 tablet and that came with Windows 7. Removed all the preinstalled cruft, popped Windows 8 onto it and it was a good deal smoother. Not buttery smooth but that's just how the system is. It works though.

You can probably go a little further if you put a solid state drive to replace your mechanical 320 GB drive but you'll ultimately be held back by your CPU first. Also there's the thing of reinstalling Windows 8 onto your new hard drive if you went this route. HP may have recovery discs but I don't know if your laptop comes with it. More RAM helps a bit but if you're doing light things, it won't show much of an impact.

What may help more is uninstalling most of the preinstalled apps. Get rid of the antivirus and preloaded software first. PC Decrapifier may help. http://pcdecrapifier.com/download

Windows 8 and 8.1 behaves faster than 7 on slower platforms though. My old tablet (W500) and a really old Pentium M series laptop did like 8 more than Windows 7. YMMV

u/Etrenix · 1 pointr/windows8

Yes your scenario is quite correct.

I do understand that it wouldn't be ideal, but I'd like to see the outcome anyway. Like you said, it'd be a fun experiment to try out. If it turns out unplayable then at least I know for future reference. If it turns out well then all the more better!

Of course nothing external could replace the native install of windows and anything close would probably cost a fortune and is probably still not optimised as it is new technology.

u/meatwad75892 · 1 pointr/windows8

> Windows 8.1 was installed personally by myself not from the factory. I am wondering if this is a possibility with the oem version of windows.


Yes, this will be fine per the OEM licensing terms. Starting with Windows 8.1, the OEM license agreement says you may move it elsewhere as long as you don't continue to use it on the old system. With Windows 7/8 and prior, OEM was technically tied to one machine, non-transferable, and only the retail(Win7/prior) and full(Win8) licenses allowed for transferring to other systems.


http://www.microsoft.com/oem/en/licensing/sblicensing/Pages/windows-licensing-for-personal-use.aspx#fbid=v71Uq7b5N3V


For future reference, if you're not building a system yourself, just get the Full edition. It's actually intended for installing on pre-existing systems per the EULA, is pretty much the same price range as OEM(maybe a $7-10 difference), can be transferred between as many devices of your own as needed(but still one at a time), and even allows for a one-time transfer of the license to another person.


http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Windows-8-1-Full-Version/dp/B00EDSI7QO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420478599&sr=8-1&keywords=windows+8.1+full

u/Phase83 · 2 pointsr/windows8

Bummer. You might want to look into these network plug adapters. I haven't used them but, I've read reviews that have said they work great. Just some info for you. Also, now that you have a desktop, you will want to visit the desktop related subreddits like /r/buildapc , /r/buildapcsales and /r/pcgaming.

u/Froggypwns · 1 pointr/windows8

HP Stream 8 on Amazon is $150 right now, comes with year of office 365, and free 4g service (200mb a month).

http://www.amazon.com/HP-Windows-4G-Enabled-Includes-Personal/dp/B00NSHLUFQ

I just picked one up, nice tablet despite the mediocre specs.

u/[deleted] · 1 pointr/windows8

Mmmm it's only a PPTP server. I'd steer clear of using the router for remote access. Get one that does SSL VPN (and I guess DynDNS compatible if you don't have a fixed IP) and things might be easier.

I use a Sonicwall TZ215 UTM at home. Works for me.

u/mgweir · 2 pointsr/windows8

I used this. It worked great.

u/soulblow · 1 pointr/windows8

this one would work.

Basically any tablet with ATOM. It's a little more expensive, but not as bad as an i5 chip.

Edit: Well, at this point, the only rt tablet for sale is the surface. So anything other than the surface can run it.

u/Dirgon · 7 pointsr/windows8

I noticed you mentioned UK, so: ASUS T-100 The Amazon UK site doesn't mention (at least I didn't see it) but it comes w/ Office 2013 Home and Student for free.

The T-200 is significantly more expensive (but larger) but has the exact same Atom CPU, and I'm unsure if it's available in the UK (I did not see it on amazon.co.uk but it is on amazon.com)

u/poohnds · 1 pointr/windows8

64 GB is as big as it'll take. You might want to buy the 64 GB version of the transformer if your budget can handle it. I just bought one myself, but stuck to the 32 GB one due to budget constraints. After installing Office and VLC, I'm down to 10 GB free. I don't tend to keep media on my PC though so its not a deal breaker, for me anyways.

I've typed a bunch on it at this point and have had no real problems with the keyboard. If you can touch type, you'll get used to it. You might want to spring for a wireless mouse for situations where you have the space. As mentioned, the right click on the touch pad is pretty loud.

I would also advise you to follow the instructions on this amazon review.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/review/B00FFJ0HUE/RAACT1MLRZDYY/ref=mw_dp_cr?cursor=1&sort=rd

u/nO_OnE_910 · 1 pointr/windows8

well... There still is Windows 7, and you can still install it on almost every PC there is

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amazon link: here | Windows 7 install guide: here or here

u/James1o1o · 1 pointr/windows8

Basically, your skullcandy earphones come with something known as a TRRS jack. This allows them to have mic and headphone on one socket. The adapter that LOG_OF_DOOM is talking about, will simply split it into 2 separate connections that will go into your computer normally. The adapter will be extremely cheap.

http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-MUYHSFMM-Headset-Splitter-Adapter/dp/B0058DOWH6/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1404871091&sr=8-2&keywords=TRRS+splitter

u/adamkemp · 1 pointr/windows8

Here's a source: http://www.amazon.com/Brave-NUI-World-Designing-Interfaces/dp/0123822319

That was written by a Microsoft guy who worked on the Surface (no, not the tablet; the table!). It is full of information about designing intuitive touch interfaces, and I recommend reading it if you really are interested in this topic. For instance, page 155:

> The biggest problem with making your gestures self-revealing is getting over the idea that gestures are somehow natural or intuitive. We have seen over and over again that users cannot and will not guess your gesture language. To overcome this, put UI affordances on the screen to which they can react.

Earlier in that chapter it goes into more detail:
> Never rely on an action being "natural" (a.k.a. "guessable"). It's not.
> The only exception to the above is "direct manipulation" - users can and will guess to grab something and move it somewhere else.

I'm not going to write you a bibliography of sources, but if you study touch usability this is a recurring theme. No one is going to guess that selection is a swipe gesture. People will try taps, and if they're experienced with iOS and Android they may try long press, but I have never witnessed anyone guessing that a swipe does a selection. That's probably why Microsoft changed it for the Start screen on Windows 8.1. It looks like they haven't pushed that change throughout the OS, but I'm keeping my eye on that because it affects one of our apps.

> Same thing happens when you put someone in front of a Mac and they have never used one before.

You're talking about different things. Not knowing where a feature is immediately is very different from not knowing how to navigate the UI to even look for the feature. Someone who has never used a Mac might not know in which menu a feature is or which toolbar button they want to press, but they can see the menus and the toolbars, and they can explore those to find what they want. There is even a "Help" menu item with a search field which will literally point to the menu item they are searching for. The UI provides a mechanism for discovery. That is in stark contrast to the Windows 8 UI in which key functionality is completely invisible, and the only way to find it is to do a magic gesture which no one would guess on their own. What user is going to stumble across a swipe from the edge entirely independently with no training? No one. But anyone who knows how to use a mouse and keyboard knows how to click around in menus until they find something they want. There is a huge difference between those situations which you are glossing over.

> How do you add something to the dock? Rearrange it? Remove it?

Drag the items around. As mentioned above, the only truly intuitive interaction is direct manipulation.

Regardless, you are still mixing up two concepts: specific features versus foundational interactions. Removing an item from the dock is a specific feature. It's not that big of a deal if someone can't figure out how to do that one thing.

What is a big deal is if the reason they can't figure that out is because the very mechanism of interacting with the UI to find the feature is literally invisible. This is most important for things like the app bar or the charms bar. There are fundamental things you can't do at all in the OS if you don't know the magic gesture to bring up those bars, and there is zero on screen affordance for them. No amount of exploring and poking around is going to help someone with no training figure out how to do that. You have to actually show them.

That means it's not just one specific feature they can't find, it's every single feature which is revealed through that common magic gesture. Every single app is harder to use as a result of that core interaction being so obscure. Likewise, every app which relies on lists with selections is harder to use because the method of making a selection in a list is so obscure that no one can guess it. There is no way to just look around and discover that interaction. You just have to know the magic gesture. To quote from the book again, "We have seen over and over again that users cannot and will not guess your gesture language".

That is why the OS is fundamentally harder to use. Not because this one feature or that other feature is hard to figure out, but because from the top down the core interactions which enable you to use basic features are not discoverable. Maybe in 5 or 10 years, with enough determined effort, Microsoft can train a critical mass of the population to be able to use their new OS so that these new gestures become ingrained in our culture, but I don't think they have that much time to get this right. If it takes that long they are in trouble.

u/undercoverwaffles · 1 pointr/windows8

I've has this wireless card for six months and have had no complaints.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007GMPZ0A/