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tcp99


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Purchased an Asuz ultrabook yesterday.

Some nice features compared to my 4 year old model.

Weighs only 1.2 kg

8 hour battery life

Instant on - loads in 2 seconds

Pause featuev thats hold program in memory for around 60 days

Excellent sound and HD video

Windows 8 loaded on 32g solid state drive

Usb 3 inputs which transfer so much quicker than Usb 2

350 G Hard Drive

Only $780

 

 

 



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jules47


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Enjoy your new toy Jack - love playing round with new stuff!!

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I am looking at a new lappy, (not another one) there is so much stuff out there, I want one with Win 7, don't like the look and feel of Win 8.



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tcp99


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I never used Windows 7 as I was happy with XP. Using 8 seems pretty good to me.

Every program I had in XP works in 8 so far.

Can't get over watching a video and half way through closing computer instantly. Next day press start and video comes on where I was within 2 seconds of pressing power switch.

Terry



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tcp99 wrote:

I never used Windows 7 as I was happy with XP. Using 8 seems pretty good to me.

Every program I had in XP works in 8 so far.

Terry

 That's good to know Terry, as I prefer XP too.  Which programmes did you have ?

Cheers,

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much like you Wombie .. settled in with 7 now .. windows 8 is interactive based and as such I think I'll wait for bugs to get ironed out ..

Jon



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Win 8 works much like an iPad, I don't have an iPad until Della get's fed up with her's and send's it to me biggrinbiggrin

if you have a iPad and like how it works then you would be ok with Win 8.

I like the look of the Toshiba Premium Qosmio , but I have still not had a good look a Dell's latest pooters.



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My home PC is Vista and my laptop is W7, must say I like both and haven't felt the need to update yet.....



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Duh wrote:

My home PC is Vista and my laptop is W7, must say I like both and haven't felt the need to update yet.....

 be careful if you do update as you cannot go back to Win 7 without doing a reformat of Win 8 then a complete reinstall of Win 7 and all the programs you now run on Win 7



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Duh


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Hmmmm.......thanks for the tip, will be careful ! smile aww



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much like you Wombie .. settled in with 7 now .. windows 8 is interactive based and as such I think I'll wait for bugs to get ironed out ..

Jon

 

The interactive side is an option. You can still run a page like XP etc.

All new laptops are now pre-loaded with Windows 8

 



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tcp99


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Sheba wrote:
tcp99 wrote:

I never used Windows 7 as I was happy with XP. Using 8 seems pretty good to me.

Every program I had in XP works in 8 so far.

Terry

 That's good to know Terry, as I prefer XP too.  Which programmes did you have ?

Cheers,

Sheba.

 

Office 2007

Notetab Pro

Adobe Acrobat

Media Monkey

AutoCad

Calibre Ebook Management

Internet Download Manager

Solitaire Suite

abd a lot more



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that Internet Download Manager is a great program, everybody should have it

get it here http://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/



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I kept my old machines on XP. When I upgraded they came with Win 7. The first thing I did was to switch off Aerglass (or what ever it is) and selected the Classic desktop. This made Win 7 act and look like XP.

Can you do the same with Win 7?

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