Windows 7 64 or Windows 8 64 bit

Saltex said:
What I actually loved about windows xp that I do miss was how you could just shutdown using the keyboard, all you had to do was press windows key then press U and then U again, so alota the times I wouldnt even switch my monitor on cause ya I was to lazy so I just windowskey -> U -> U
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Alt F4 from the desktop?
 
shogun said:
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Option 0: Power Menu -> right click in bottom left corner
Option 1: windows key -> type "cont"
Option 2: hover right -> hover settings
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Updated.

Besides Control Panel & many others, Win8.1 Power Menu has Shutdown options.
 
BLIXEMPIE said:
Go for Windows 7. Windows 8 is toss. It took me ages just to find Control Panel. The layout is ridiculous and the start screen is useless. I suggest wait for 8.1 where everything will be back to normal. But even then, Windows 7 just looks so much more appealing. I am so over all this flat 2D bullcrap.
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Back to normal?

There's still no start menu, just a start button :)

Also Win+X or right click bottom left corner, it's not that hard
 
Windows 8 for sure.

As for finding control panel and shutting down being a long process? Not sure why anyone would think that.

Shutting down is a whole 3 clicks (pretty sure Win 7 was 3 clicks too) and control panel is a whole 2 clicks (possibly the same or quicker than Win 7, can't remember exactly). Don't see how that is an issue at all.

If you're wife is stubborn and hates change go for Win 7, otherwise Win 8 is perfectly fine, I personally love it.
 
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KalMaverick said:
Windows 8 for sure.

As for finding control panel and shutting down being a long process? Not sure why anyone would think that.

Shutting down is a whole 3 clicks (pretty sure Win 7 was 3 clicks too) and control panel is a whole 2 clicks (possibly the same or quicker than Win 7, can't remember exactly). Don't see how that is an issue at all.

If you're wife is a stubborn and hates change go for Win 7, otherwise Win 8 is perfectly fine, I personally love it.
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I just press the 'Power' button on my keyboard.
 
KalMaverick said:
Windows 8 for sure.

As for finding control panel and shutting down being a long process? Not sure why anyone would think that.

Shutting down is a whole 3 clicks (pretty sure Win 7 was 3 clicks too) and control panel is a whole 2 clicks (possibly the same or quicker than Win 7, can't remember exactly). Don't see how that is an issue at all.

If you're wife is a stubborn and hates change go for Win 7, otherwise Win 8 is perfectly fine, I personally love it.
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+1. Enjoying it and will be even better with the win8.1 update when released.
 
I have a notebook, and not a tablet, so Windows 7 is the best choice.

Just love the premium feel of Windows 7, compared to the cheap tablet feel of Windows 8.
 
kingrob said:
I have a notebook, and not a tablet, so Windows 7 is the best choice.

Just love the premium feel of Windows 7, compared to the cheap tablet feel of Windows 8.
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I have a notebook and not a desktop, so Windows 8 is the best choice.

Just love the clean modern and quick feel of Windows 8, compared to the archaic bloated and slow feel of Windows 7. Works both ways:P
 
shogun said:
I have a notebook and not a desktop, so Windows 8 is the best choice.

Just love the clean modern and quick feel of Windows 8, compared to the archaic bloated and slow feel of Windows 7. Works both ways:P
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What nonsense.
 
biometrics said:
What nonsense.
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Exactly my point. They're both great OS's. I was poking fun at the "cheap feel of Windows 8" comment. It's easy to use words like "premium" and "cheap", and I was doing the same by using "clean", "modern" and "archaic". What did those really mean? Well nothing at all.
 
shogun said:
I have a notebook and not a desktop, so Windows 8 is the best choice.

Just love the clean modern and quick feel of Windows 8, compared to the archaic bloated and slow feel of Windows 7. Works both ways:P
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Slow and bloated feel of Windows 7? I LOL'd so hard. :D

Windows 8 is Windows 7 Basic + a snap-in running metro apps.

Doesn't take much to figure it out, unless you're a bit "slow". :p
 
kingrob said:
Slow and bloated feel of Windows 7? I LOL'd so hard. :D

Windows 8 is Windows 7 Basic + a snap-in running metro apps.

Doesn't take much to figure it out, unless you're a bit "slow". :p
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So you totally missed my follow up post then. Never mind, you clearly have selective reading syndrome. Yes windows 7 is awesome, and yes, windows 8 is windows 7 with extra bits. What I can't understand is how you quantify "premium" and "cheap". Ditching aero has free'd up significant resources, dropping the memory footprint significantly. The boot up times are far quicker than windows 7 as well. They've isolated slow processes and run them asynchronously to improve th user experience. In fact a lot of those philosophies are making their way into developer guidance and tools to help developers make better / faster applications as well.

There is a lot of very real progress in windows 8, yet it has a "cheap" feel? Really?

What exactly is so "Premium" about windows 7 that isn't there in Windows 8? Some aero glass? What is "cheap" about windows 8, less gradients? Really i'm interested, did aero make that much of a difference to your daily computing life? Do you not want better performance (read less memory usage)?
 
shogun said:
So you totally missed my follow up post then. Never mind, you clearly have selective reading syndrome. Yes windows 7 is awesome, and yes, windows 8 is windows 7 with extra bits. What I can't understand is how you quantify "premium" and "cheap". Ditching aero has free'd up significant resources, dropping the memory footprint significantly. The boot up times are far quicker than windows 7 as well. They've isolated slow processes and run them asynchronously to improve th user experience. In fact a lot of those philosophies are making their way into developer guidance and tools to help developers make better / faster applications as well.

There is a lot of very real progress in windows 8, yet it has a "cheap" feel? Really?

What exactly is so "Premium" about windows 7 that isn't there in Windows 8? Some aero glass? What is "cheap" about windows 8, less gradients? Really i'm interested, did aero make that much of a difference to your daily computing life? Do you not want better performance (read less memory usage)?
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Serious question: do you work for Microsoft or an affiliat?
 
shogun said:
So you totally missed my follow up post then. Never mind, you clearly have selective reading syndrome. Yes windows 7 is awesome, and yes, windows 8 is windows 7 with extra bits. What I can't understand is how you quantify "premium" and "cheap". Ditching aero has free'd up significant resources, dropping the memory footprint significantly. The boot up times are far quicker than windows 7 as well. They've isolated slow processes and run them asynchronously to improve th user experience. In fact a lot of those philosophies are making their way into developer guidance and tools to help developers make better / faster applications as well.

There is a lot of very real progress in windows 8, yet it has a "cheap" feel? Really?

What exactly is so "Premium" about windows 7 that isn't there in Windows 8? Some aero glass? What is "cheap" about windows 8, less gradients? Really i'm interested, did aero make that much of a difference to your daily computing life? Do you not want better performance (read less memory usage)?
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So you spend most of your time staring at the metro tiles then?

I run real apps on my notebook, which means I use "desktop mode" all of the time, & where Windows 7 destroys Windows 8 completely.

For some reason Microsoft thought we're all running tablets by now and focused all their energy on a start screen.
 
kingrob said:
So you spend most of your time staring at the metro tiles then?

I run real apps on my notebook, which means I use "desktop mode" all of the time, & where Windows 7 destroys Windows 8 completely.

For some reason Microsoft thought we're all running tablets by now and focused all their energy on a start screen.
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How exactly? I run real apps too and I use desktop mode a lot too, what's the difference?
 
shogun said:
So you totally missed my follow up post then. Never mind, you clearly have selective reading syndrome. Yes windows 7 is awesome, and yes, windows 8 is windows 7 with extra bits. What I can't understand is how you quantify "premium" and "cheap". Ditching aero has free'd up significant resources, dropping the memory footprint significantly. The boot up times are far quicker than windows 7 as well. They've isolated slow processes and run them asynchronously to improve th user experience. In fact a lot of those philosophies are making their way into developer guidance and tools to help developers make better / faster applications as well.

There is a lot of very real progress in windows 8, yet it has a "cheap" feel? Really?

What exactly is so "Premium" about windows 7 that isn't there in Windows 8? Some aero glass? What is "cheap" about windows 8, less gradients? Really i'm interested, did aero make that much of a difference to your daily computing life? Do you not want better performance (read less memory usage)?
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What hardware do you use?

Do you know where to look for the CPU type and RAM?
 
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