Go with the Win8.1 with 1TB SATA.
Then install the Classic Shell interface (free) and set it up to look like Win 7 ...
You can also use Classic Shell again if you like the Win7 look.
Posted on 04/08/2015 11:50:49 AM PDT by Chickensoup
Question about Laptop Purchase Win8.1 with 1TB SATA vs Beloved Win7 No SATA??
I am again buying a computer.
The VAIO with Win7 is dying after many years of faithful service.
I have some Acers in sight but cannot decide between the Win8.1 with 1TB SATA vs Beloved Win7 No SATA but instead a regular hard drive.
I just word-process and surf and store pics. Occasionally Skype.
I have Win8 on my teeny computer and I cannot say I particularly like it, some people say I can turn the 8 into a 7 look and feel. But is it really 7? Win7 can turn off cookies and do some things 8 cannot do.
Your input? Please?
What is causing the confusion here is that any laptop new enough to have shipped with Win7 should have come with a SATA drive, but that is an assumption, and you know what they say about making assumptions. Solid State SSD SATA drives are faster than both non SSD SATA and IDE.
I would try to replace the drive in your existing WIN7 laptop with a new SSD drive (if indeed the existing interface is SATA), unless the system has other problems.
If it was just the keyboard it would be fixable, but being a power supply/battery problem as well, I think a new laptop is for the best.
Sorry, I missed the other issues with your current system..
I don’t see much lag but I don’t do a lot with it. I’m either writing code or running queries so speed back and forth doesn’t matter.
VAIOs after 2003 came with SATA and not IDE.
I should also mention that Sony went out of the computer business a couple years ago and that also makes it difficult to correctly repair his laptop. The power supply and battery charging circuit was always a weak link on VAIOs.
I have the little Toshiba transformer which is an 8 and frankly not impressed. Took off a lot of the aps.
I think you do understand what I want. I only watch videos with my TV and I never watch anything twice so storing vid does not make sense to me. I understand that I can even move the files from one to another computer with some sort of application that is already on the system. How cool is that?
Take a deep breath and realize that there isn’t much difference between 8.1 and 7. The differences are only cosmetic.
I have computers running one or the other (and the work computers are STILL XP)
If you don’t want to use the tiles, click on the desktop and go there. I rarely bother with them myself.
90% of the programs you are going to regularly run are going to jump to the desktop anyway.
I’d go with the 1TB 8.1. It’s what I have. I have to tie it down to the table it’s so fast.
Ok, didn’t see battery, not cheap there.
I want to interject that this VAIO has been a remarkable computer and I was disappointed when I could not replace it.
I think that you are correct.
I think I am working really hard not to be up to date.
For example, I recently decided that CDs are as far as I am going. I am not moving to any other media any more
45s
LPs
reel to reels
8tracks
cassettes
CDs
there I have stopped.
I am actually having a man come to my house and wire it for Am and FM radio antennas
I’ve owned 7 VAIO laptops in my business so I know them well. The video and speed of the processors was always top-notch. I have my personal one now that is going on 5 years and I’m babying it as long as possible since I can’t get a new one to replace it. However, I still have older ones that I may cannabilize if I need to get parts. I wish Sony was still making them.
“really? I understood that meant it was a solid state drive.”
Sata is a description of the common serial interface. Both disk drives and SSD’s use SATA.
The other common serial interface is USB.
SATA is used for the motherboard to talk to ONE device while USB polls the several devices that may be on a USB bus.
CDs are basically where consumer hardcopy media ended anyway. Everything after that is just digital files.
“really? I understood that meant it was a solid state drive.”
Sata is a description of the common serial interface. Both disk drives and SSD’s use SATA.
The other common serial interface is USB.
SATA is used for the motherboard to talk to ONE device while USB polls the several devices that may be on a USB bus.
Of course = 'ever-improving'...
can I just install my outlook and office 2003 on it?
I know, but no playlist and little box for me.
No, Windows 8.1 works fine without a touchscreen.
Regarding the CD’s, if you like to play them on your computer, check to see if whichever laptop you buy has an optical drive to play them on. Nowadays, it has become less common for a laptop to include one.
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