Windows 10

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Sun Aug 09, 2015 3:03 pm

The new Windows has been getting mixed reviews.
Any (relevant) thoughts?

Post by **ek9sid** » Sun Aug 09, 2015 3:07 pm

Since getting g it, the touch pad mouse thing has stopped working on my laptop

Post by **Donald** » Sun Aug 09, 2015 3:10 pm

I used it the other day. Horrific.

Post by **RattyMcClelland** » Sun Aug 09, 2015 3:12 pm

My house only has 8 Windows.

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Post by **indigolemon** » Mon Aug 10, 2015 2:55 pm

In theory, based on the 'one good, then one bad' thing Macrocruft do, it should be good. Well, as good as an operating system that has a core with it's roots in mid 1980's tech can be in this day and age. I'm sure people will love it or something.

Mattbigwood · Post by **Mattbigwood** » Mon Aug 10, 2015 5:36 pm

Updated my year-old laptop last week (i7, 16GB ram) and it seems faster generally, and Lightroom 5.7 runs quicker as well.

Post by **Donald** » Mon Aug 10, 2015 6:04 pm

I hate to be a shill but I just booted up a 6 year old Macbook Pro running OSX 10.9 (not the current major release) and it is faster than my grandad's 2 week old Windows 10 Acer jobbie.

Mattbigwood · Post by **Mattbigwood** » Mon Aug 10, 2015 6:16 pm

Donald wrote:I hate to be a shill but I just booted up a 6 year old Macbook Pro running OSX 10.9 (not the current major release) and it is faster than my grandad's 2 week old Windows 10 Acer jobbie.

I expect the Mac cost five times as much as the PC in the first place

Post by **Donald** » Mon Aug 10, 2015 6:32 pm

True, you're not far off, but the majority of that is on the name I'm sure. To throw in some more weight my 4 year old Pro with half the RAM and ~9 month old Air are also quicker. That said, the Air is PCIe-based rather than whatever the spinning ones are called.

The point is an out of date 6 year old laptop shouldn't be running quicker than a brand new laptop with the latest OS, regardless of cost. I would like to think the Intel Core 2 processor (in the 6 year old) would be spanked by the latest Celeron as well.

I'm sure, I hope, @indigolemon can lend some support to this hypothesis, though.

Anyway, I don't like Windows 10. It's pretty gross.