Showing posts with label ISO support. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ISO support. Show all posts
Thursday, November 8, 2012
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Three great things about Windows 8 so far
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.
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.
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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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