Thursday, November 8, 2012
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Windows 8
I decided to go head and upgrade to Win8 and mess around with it for a week to see what's what. I figured that if it was bearable, I would just stick with it. So I installed Windows 8 Professional and my initial impression is that it's not vastly different than Windows 7, other than the obvious re-positioning of the start menu. I'll expand more on that later.
To give a breakdown of system specs, I'm running an i7 2nd gen processor with 8 GB of RAM and a SATA III solid state drive. I recently had Windows 7 on this this system and boot time was probably about 10-15 seconds. That was already a vast improvement over my previous config, which included the Sony-branded Win7 and OEM SATA drive, where my boot time took about two minutes on average. However, after installing Windows 8 my boot time decreased to literally less than 5 seconds. And for those wondering what I mean by boot time, I consider it the point where you can click on a browser to start accessing a website.
I do find occasional use for ISO files, and after downloading one of them, I found I could double-click into it without Windows asking me what program I wanted to use to open it. Shocked, I navigated out of the ISO and right-clicked on the file. What did I see? Low and behold, native support for ISO files! Right click and mount is pretty nice, that's for sure.
After the initial OS load, I found only two unknown devices listed in my device manager. One was a USB host controller, and the other was the hotkey controller for this laptop. That means out of the at least 15 drivers I had to load separately in Windows 7, I now only had two! Talk about a time-saver. I loaded the USB host controller driver from Sony's website with no problem. To read about the near-maddening battle in resolving these two driver issues, read on.
Three great things about Windows 8 so far
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NOTE: I have not read about any features of Windows 8, so some of these items may already be old news.I decided to go head and upgrade to Win8 and mess around with it for a week to see what's what. I figured that if it was bearable, I would just stick with it. So I installed Windows 8 Professional and my initial impression is that it's not vastly different than Windows 7, other than the obvious re-positioning of the start menu. I'll expand more on that later.
First up: Blazing Boot Time
To give a breakdown of system specs, I'm running an i7 2nd gen processor with 8 GB of RAM and a SATA III solid state drive. I recently had Windows 7 on this this system and boot time was probably about 10-15 seconds. That was already a vast improvement over my previous config, which included the Sony-branded Win7 and OEM SATA drive, where my boot time took about two minutes on average. However, after installing Windows 8 my boot time decreased to literally less than 5 seconds. And for those wondering what I mean by boot time, I consider it the point where you can click on a browser to start accessing a website.
Discovery: Native ISO support
I do find occasional use for ISO files, and after downloading one of them, I found I could double-click into it without Windows asking me what program I wanted to use to open it. Shocked, I navigated out of the ISO and right-clicked on the file. What did I see? Low and behold, native support for ISO files! Right click and mount is pretty nice, that's for sure.
Driver Support: overall better than Win7
After the initial OS load, I found only two unknown devices listed in my device manager. One was a USB host controller, and the other was the hotkey controller for this laptop. That means out of the at least 15 drivers I had to load separately in Windows 7, I now only had two! Talk about a time-saver. I loaded the USB host controller driver from Sony's website with no problem. To read about the near-maddening battle in resolving these two driver issues, read on.
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