Posted on 09/22/2015 3:13:30 PM PDT by publius911
It ships with 8.1 and I upgraded to 10 as soon as I took it out of the box. It comes with case, bluetooth keyboard and a year of Office 365 so at the price it was a no-brainer to try it out (case & keyboard worth ~$40, Office subscription $70). I got it from Tiger Direct; IIRC they’re offering it in the USA for about USD$120.
External or network drive. I have an XP desktop that I use as a file & print server with a 1TB RAID array that I use for backups. If you use an external drive, Acronis gives you the option of creating a bootable image that automatically restores all your partitions.
The dirty little secret in our industry is that they’re all good ;)
Did you “force” the W10 update or did it update automatically?
My I-5 ultra-book has 8.1...and still waiting for W10 upgrade.
To the best of my knowledge, no. My laptop is an Acer win7 64bit, went to Win10, and restored it to Win7 afterward using the stock Acer recovery partition. YMMV.
I can run my like new GPS72 again.
If I can find a cheap copy of XP I'll load it up.
[roamer_1:] To the best of my knowledge, no. My laptop is an Acer win7 64bit, went to Win10, and restored it to Win7 afterward using the stock Acer recovery partition. YMMV.
And, btw, Win10 offers the ability to go back to your previous version for the first 30 days - I just performed that operation on one of my test bench machines, whose software didn't like Win 10 very much... Kinda in Settings=> Updates=> Advanced, I think... Anyhoo, the downgrade worked fine, and the machine is as I left it.
I forced the update as Win10 is a *huge* improvement over 8.1. The update is not automatic- you need to go into Windows Update to make it happen.
Thanks for reply.
I go to “Updates” every day and check on updates - nothing on W10.
Where in “Windows Update” is the link to force the W10 upgrade?
Thanks. I would make the bootable image, store it on an eternal hard drive. Then if/when I use it I would move that image to an empty flash drive and boot from the flash drive.
Do you think I could boot that Acronis image directly from an external drive and not have to use a flash drive?
Thanks!!! I think it might differ from laptop to laptop
I agree. Windows 8 is just fine once you install a start button, I like the Windows 8-8.1 flat look better than Windows 7
Nah, I don't think so - Win 10 just upgrades the existing installation. It doesn't format or re-partition unless you DL the ISO and do a full installation.
;)
Yup!
People bitch and whine about every release of Windows. And yet hundreds of millions get sold. MS is like taxes, but like to complain about them, but they still pay.
Windows 10 is Great, Except for the Parts That Are Terrible
http://www.howtogeek.com/227827/windows-10-is-great-except-for-the-parts-that-are-terrible/
snort, snort — you owe me a new keyboard (yes, I still use a keyboard).
And this one comment from me: Stay with Windows 7 until they improve Windows 10’s privacy issues and other things. I’m still enjoying Windows 7. I have 10 months until I can’t download 10 for free, so I can wait.
No need for the flash- whatever external drive you use becomes a boot drive when you select the “bootable” option.
I haven’t encountered that scenario- the upgrade option was on the Windows Update main page when I checked it on both machines that I did. It’s probably available as a download at the MS site.
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