Oop .. yea, my response did kinda read as if I were implying you used the loophole to get a $15 copy. Sorry.
What I meant is that the existence and publication of this loophole made me think “this can’t be the same as the $40 license” and it wasn’t.
Similarly the people who are using this other thing to get a free copy will probably be disappointed soon.
So ... on your old dual-core ... how’s the boot time? Faster boot, lower memory footprint, and (for the gamers) more DirectX features are good Win8 points.
You may end up happy that you put your Win8 on the older machine for the leanness alone.
It seems to boot faster but it was a fresh install and I added 4 gigs of ram. Windows 7 had been running on it a long time and thus was slower just due to the amount of crud loaded on it.
I don’t play games so I can’t really comment on that.
The biggest issues I found with it so far is it’s even harder now to shut the thing down from the desktop (of course you can just use the power button) and finding things in the “metro” interface can sometimes prove to be a task.
I’m going to kick the machine over to the kids who can break almost anything and see if they can screw it up. Since I fix computers for a living I am going to have to learn the ins and outs of windows 8.