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?
“For example, I recently decided that CDs are as far as I am going. I am not moving to any other media any more”
I have my entire music collection on an SD card in my phone.
it does but I put them in a carousel and play them on my stereo.
Whichever way you go, best of luck to you!
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“can I just install my outlook and office 2003 on it?”
Are you using these already of Win7? I think you should be OK, but there might be some compatibility settings you need to use to get around a quirk or two. I use office2007 and have no problems running it on win7.
If you do get the win7 system, you should be able to set it up on your home network and then do an automated transfer of your apps and data files from the old laptop to the new laptop. I don’t use win8, so I can’t help you there.
kerping ... you might be able to ‘convert’ that pesky 8 to a Windows 7 experience.
I am buying win7. I have office 2007 but prefer my 2003. The 2007 word processor is actually a whole printing press, all I want to do is write letters.
About 60% of PCs use Win7 versus about 18% for win8/8.1. Win7 will be popular for many years to come. Win8/8.1 has come to the end now that Win10 is coming soon.
Well, if you are only using it to surf and do word processing, then the hard drive shouldn’t be much of an issue for you. You’re better off worrying about usability.
There are programs (like ClassicShell) that can give you a start menu and Windows 7 look in Windows 8, but it is only cosmetic. Everything “under the hood” is still all Windows 8 functionality.
I believe 8.0 can be modified as well, you just need to download a program from an outside vendor to do it, while 8.1 has native support for that.
I would go ahead and install and give it a try. It should be OK for basic use. I know there was something about 2003 that was quirky, but I can’t recall the issue at the moment.
“I use a desktop at home and work because they last forever and are faster.”
The machine itself might last forever, but all the desktops I have bought recently have had hard drive failures after about 3-4 years. The new high capacity hard drives just multiply the problems with bad sectors that never got properly addressed.
I found this at Microsoft:
“MS Office 2003 is compatible with Windows 7, you can check here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/compatibility/windows-7/en-us/Search.aspx?type=Software&s=MS%20Office%202003.
For MS Office 2003 to work properly, upgrade it with Service Pack 3, available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=E25B7049-3E13-433B-B9D2-5E3C1132F206&displaylang=en.
If still you find any issue, check if you have administrator privileges or not, if not then get it and uninstall and install Office 2003 under admin privileges and upgrade it to sp3.”
I haven’t had that problem. What seems to kill hard drives, oddly, is turning them off. If we put away a laptop, that joker won’t boot in a year.
But then, I run 3 different scheduled backups every week on my machines. I do an xcopy of data/doc folders, a freeware backup program and a securezip. They all go to an external drive on another machine.
Just so you know, Windows 8.1 is far superior technically and safer as well. You will eventually have to upgrade or go to Windows 10.
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