Speaking of Windows 8
Wednesday, September 25, 2013 by kona0197 | Discussion: Personal Computing
Would it make my friends system run any faster? It have Windows 7 on it right now with just about everything turned off or disabled and it still acts like a dinosaur. Keep in mind this is on a fresh install of 7, no malware or viruses. I think the CPU is to blame here. Web pages take forever to load, programs take forever to execute.
System in question:
AMD E1-1200 Dual Core APU with Radeon 7130 graphics, 1.4 GHz
4 GB DDR3 memory
320 GB hard drive
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Reply #22 Friday, September 27, 2013 7:15 PM
I'm just worried that if I put put it on there that it will not work past January. After all the soonest time he could upgrade to a legit version of 8 is around April, tax time.
Reply #23 Friday, September 27, 2013 8:35 PM
So I finished downloading Windows 8.1 Preview. Anyone know if it can be used until at least April? What's the deal with all of that?
Reply #24 Friday, September 27, 2013 10:09 PM
Reply #25 Friday, September 27, 2013 10:42 PM
Guess I will keep Windows 7 on the machine then. No use in using a system that will not work. Guess I could talk him into using Ubuntu. You sure about that RedneckDude?
Reply #26 Saturday, September 28, 2013 1:34 AM
I have used previous beta and preview MS OS before on low use machines in my network of 20 and had the nagging & reboot hourly, so it would be a reasonable assumption that MS will do it again, and yes it IS irritating, BUT I remember seeing somewhere that a w7 key could be used on w8, it might be worth testing this.
harpo
Reply #27 Saturday, September 28, 2013 3:01 AM
No luck. The Windows 8 install will not take a Window 7 product key. If only. LOL.
Reply #28 Saturday, September 28, 2013 10:00 AM
I would be extremely surprised if Windows 8 would take a Windows 7 key. Really. 
Reply #29 Sunday, September 29, 2013 5:20 AM
Well it looks like we are going to sell the machine. Just to slow. Even after I reinstalled Windows 7, turned off everything that starts up at boot in MSCONFIG, went without a AV program, and no Windows 7 updates, and installed the lastest drivers, this machine is still having issues just reading the Facebook newsfeed. The whole system freezes just doing simple things. So it's on Craigslist. I hope Lonovo knows this system sucks. Hopefully I can get $225 out of it. Probably not. I doubt this CPU is a true dual core CPU. Something isn't right.
Reply #30 Sunday, September 29, 2013 4:02 PM
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Reply #21 Friday, September 27, 2013 6:39 PM
the second is closer,(ms OS expired previews usually NAG on an hourly basis and often demand reboots frequently), but as MS is claiming it will be released later this year this might not be such a big issue.
harpo