Comment Ssd support (Score 2) 116
Does it support samsung 840 and 850 pros yet for production?
Does it support samsung 840 and 850 pros yet for production?
Go do a sfc
It happens regardless of hardware and explains why 8.0 users can't upgrade to 8.1 as their update is too broken to be moved over.
About 1 billion users will start to cry for 7 and even 8.1 back!
I am letting everyone know that I have been tested this on a Pc at work and on a VM in my virtual lab. Avoid this release like the plague! No RSAT tools, a VLAN change can crash it, install will corrupt itself, Windows updates break to the point a DISM image fix is required, and the list goes on and on.
The odd thing is we are just a few weeks before release and there is no change freeze yet??! MS laid off their QA team so they only add features and fix them after enough people complain on the internet with their discussion app.
I am sticking with Windows 8.1 for at least a year. Bloodstone which is the first bug fix update will come out next fall if rumors at www.neowin.net are correct. Another update will hit next summer. Maybe just maybe it will be stable enough??
For me even Windows 8.1 is not stable. I do a dism and a WindowsUPDATE FIXIT every freaking month! Literally after 2 years 8.1 still corrupts itself with updates.
Windows 7 the best most stable MS OS ever. If I were not an IT professional in charge of being up to date for myself and my employers systems I would still be on it. If you are not an IT admin or help desk jockey reading this stay on 7 for a few more years and let myself and the countless 1 billion fix the OS for you before it is time.
Or the selfish Aynn Rand style would be to give out condoms in the 3rd world.
If the population is in half we could all buy our gas guzzling SUV's, use water and electricity, and still have a cleaner earth and cheaper gas prices and rents/mortgages.
People are inheriently selfish and evil in the Christian sense and will always pick their self interest as sad as it is true. How many who whine about global warming and oil companies are willing to take a bus to work or ride a bike 4 hours each way? No hands I see
I'd had Linux on it. I put the disc in, loaded it up. Everything worked, and worked well.
Then I loaded Vista on it. It took me a few hours to find the network drivers (because the model wasn't listed on the manufacturer's website (Lenovo)), and then a few days to find the SM Bus drivers. I still haven't found the audio drivers for it. I did install the nVidia drivers on it, that took three reboots to get them going. The updates took me 9 hours to download (for some reason, under Vista, the download speed is almost a quarter of what it is under Linux) and install.
This is what you'd have me leave Linux for? I thought Windows "just worked," and ran everything!
Which version of Linux (release date / year)? If it is a more recent build than from 2007, comparing it to Windows Vista (which was released in January 2007) is hardly fair... I'm not surprised 8.5 YEARS of updates took a while to download.
I am not a WIndows fanboy but 8.1 install will find hardware automatically. Windows 7 can for most too including 3rd party bluetooth. I didn't even have to do an update. It just started installing itself within minutes of a fresh setup.
Funny how the parent thinks I am trying to enforce my opinion on others when the grandparent talked about how to trick users into thinking xorg is Win7 or how to evangalize Windows users.
http://www.businessinsider.com...
According to the above link the development team does both so no qa team. The real question is how they are evaluated? Right now there is no incentive and it shows. No,code freeze and ship first and ask questions later is how it appears
If your PC runs Windows 7 it'll run Windows 10. There have been no increase in performance requirements in the past 3 versions of windows. In fact Windows 8, 8.1 and 10 are working on ever increasing memory and CPU efficiency.
Not true. It requires UEFI 2.3.1 with CSM bios turned off.
Unless I misread something. If you have a 2011 era computer with a bios with no EFI your options are 8.1 or 7 until they go EOL. Any new pc from 2013 or later should have them but I have not seen much at all in 2012 or earlier besides some botique boards and imacs that had UEFI 2.3.1.
Because it works!
It comes with their computer. It was they use at work. Their documents do not look funny on other computers. It is stable (yes slashdotters it is not 1998 anymore as WIndows uses an NT kernel now), and most important RUNS ALL THEIR SOFTWARE. No WINE. No hacks, No clones of what they used on their work pcs.
Why would someone want to change? Why put up with xorg.conf files, drivers breaking after a release update, finding drivers, etc. I left linux a few years ago as my main OS and unless things have radically changed the lack of an ABI meant after a release update or 2 the distro would BREAK. ATI drivers would stop working etc.
So the answer is unless you run a server, do crazy development work in computer science or strange mathematical apis, then there is no reason to change. In 1998 Unix had the best development tools. In 2015 Vistual Studio 2015 has clang, java support, android SDK, typescript, and the same libraries.
Well truth be told to you and the grandparent here that Windows 7 is heading towards another WIndows XP. It is legacy now and in a short time will go EOL. Windows 7 won't be around forever.
Windows 10 is the last OS by Microsoft. Future versions will be MacOSX like 10.1, 10.2, etc.
I forced myself a few months ago to switch to Windows 8.1. Actually I found out I just did not like change mostly and didn't realize it. I put in a start menu replacement and modernMIX to make apps act like applications and found glass8. I have a surface now too which I am now getting comfortable without aero and the new flat look.
Windows 8.1 & 10 are less heavy and boot fast if you disable bios/CSM and go straight into uEFI. UEFI is wonderful! It just works and is very fast.
Cons:
- Windows 10 is not stable and in my opinion very beta quality as No QA team is left at Microsoft and were laid off
- They will be very frequent updates with only the pro version giving you the choise to skip every other update aka
So if anyone reading this is using Windows 7 I would think about switching
I own a surface and as annoying as using this for my hotmail account it is really nice to have Office 365, Onedrive, favorites, and even desktop wallpapers and settings synced together. Even if you use Android you can gain the cloud functionality portion and MS office too!
MS doesn't track your daily activities. The purpose is to get you on Onedrive and it's cloud offerings. You are free to use it or not. I use it because it is included. I have a truecrypt container I put on it for important files encrypted to be on the safe side for my passwords file and tax returns etc.
Which is why this ain't touching my desktop nor surface.
If I weren't an IT professional expected to be up to date I would still be on 7 to which is Microsoft's best OS. It is NO WHERE NEAR ready for primetime! I do not even run it on a vm in my lab as a simple vlan change can so a BSOD and there are no rsat tools?? wth. Now I read your post and it makes sense.
Window 7 beta 1 circa 2008 was faaar more stable than 10 now near RTM.
I will wait for bloodstone update then next one next summer and then upgrade because it's my job. It still will be flaky I am sure but oh well. Like I said if I were in another industry I would hold onto 7 for dear life
Then my computer will have Windows 10??
Yep freebsd is fine here with 840 pros.
I find it hysterical that it must be the drives attitude on this heavily biased site towards linux.
According to usinflationcalculator.com $30,000 in 1998 = $43,545.83 in todays dollars.
Yep sounds accurate and that was during the
"You started at $40,000 if you had a degree in anything business. medical, or science related back then."
Simply, bullshit.
I graduated from high school in 1986, college (u of mn) in 1990 with a degree in international relations, with minors in German, geography, and European area studies, all of which at the time were considered desirable (if non specific) subjects. Minimum wage at the time was, iirc $4.25/hr. I started my first career level job in international business (specifically logistics) at $20k. I was delighted to make more than my age around age 27-28?
To suggest that $40k jobs were falling like manna is just complete nonsense.
Yep
Ok according to http://www.usinflationcalculat... $20,000 in 1990 = $36,204.90
FYI inflation is not accurate anymore as it does not cover food, cost, insurance, and higher education costs! So in essence image in 1990 if $20,000 required 5 years of experience to top it off
That my friend is what recent grads have to contend with plus $1,000 a month for a 1 room apartment in most metropolitan areas to top it off which is not counted in inflation
"What man has done, man can aspire to do." -- Jerry Pournelle, about space flight
