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Question about Laptop Purchase Win8.1 with 1TB SATA vs Beloved Win7 No SATA??
04.08.15 | chickensoup

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?


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: laptop; win7
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To: AppyPappy

I know that deep in my heart.


81 posted on 04/08/2015 1:47:35 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: Boogieman

“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 have NEVER had a hard drive failure on a desktop at home or at work in over 30 years of computing. The only failure I have had was a laptop and that was because I packed it into a suitcase going on a cruise. I even dropped a laptop from desk level once. The screen connectors lost connection but it worked fine with a monitor plugged in.


82 posted on 04/08/2015 2:02:50 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

“I have NEVER had a hard drive failure on a desktop at home or at work in over 30 years of computing.”

Well, I am not talking about total failures. I’m really talking about the multiplying problem of bad sectors, which gets worse as the capacity of the drive increases. More bad sectors = higher probability one of those bad sectors will affect a system file = more chance the drive won’t boot.

As long as it can still boot, most people won’t notice much of a problem, just the occasion prompt to run scandisk, but the problem is definitely worse with high capacity drives than the older ones.


83 posted on 04/08/2015 2:25:51 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

I did have a HDD failure on my computer (Win Vista) a few years ago, had to install a whole new HDD and on that I installed Ubuntu.


84 posted on 04/08/2015 2:29:08 PM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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To: Wooly; Chickensoup
I highly recommend you check out the Dell Store on eBay. They sell the top-end Dell Latitude notebooks that are corporate lease returns, usually after only a two-year lease and practically new. They are outstanding machines and you can get them at a fraction of their original cost. It's exactly like buying a high-end fleet-lease auto; someone else has already paid the depreciation. I just bought a Latitude E64530 with Intel i5 2.6ghz, 8gb RAM, 256gb Samsung EVO SSD, dual-band wireless and Bluetooth for $355.00. Largher HD's are available. It's blazingly fast, and incorporates Dell's E-port docking system wherein you can easily plug the notebook into a full desktop configuration of monitor, keyboard, mouse, printer, etc. if desired. Here's the link:

Dell Official Store USA

http://www.ebay.com/sch/Laptops-Netbooks-/175672/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=&_ssn=dell-official-store-usa-refurbished

85 posted on 04/08/2015 3:35:41 PM PDT by tarheelswamprat
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To: tarheelswamprat; Wooly; Chickensoup

Pardon the sloppy typing. My machine was a Dell Latitude E6430. These also come with Windows 7 Professional.


86 posted on 04/08/2015 3:49:51 PM PDT by tarheelswamprat
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To: Chickensoup

Touchscreen is never REQUIRED.


87 posted on 04/08/2015 3:50:32 PM PDT by BBB333 (Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
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To: Boogieman

I install ‘Classic Start Page’ - for my clients on Windows 8.0.

It’s a good thing!


88 posted on 04/08/2015 3:51:47 PM PDT by BBB333 (Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
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To: tarheelswamprat

thank you


89 posted on 04/08/2015 4:15:28 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: Chickensoup

I think you must mean one laptop has a SATA drive and the other has a SSD drive.

I has a Asus laptop with Win 7 - 64 bit and a SSD 256 gb drive, and I am pleased.


90 posted on 04/08/2015 4:42:37 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: Chickensoup

What is killing your laptop? If its just the drive, buy a small ssd from best buy etc pop it in and build a W10 system so you’ll be ahead of the curve when w7-8.1 get upgraded for free around September. Then you could buy a permanent system in October knowing exactly what you want. Another reason to wait is the next gen systems just being released are losing all ports other then USB 3.1. You won’t even have a power chord. So anything you buy in the next few months will be really cheap come September/oct.


91 posted on 04/08/2015 5:33:38 PM PDT by waynesa98
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To: Chickensoup

True, the SSD’s are pricey, so it’s becomes a compromise.


92 posted on 04/09/2015 6:17:59 AM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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