nsane.forums Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 If you take good care of your PC, you might not need to do a clean install. For old timers, there's still a certain peace of mind that comes with a new install, especially on a computer that has been up and running for a while. Even if there's nothing apparently wrong with your Windows 7 installation, starting fresh can wipe out apps, settings, and other cruft that you no longer use or have simply forgotten about. There's a peace of mind in knowing you're starting with an operating system that is as clean as it can possibly be. On the other hand, doing a clean install is a huge pain. You have to reinstall and reconfigure all of your applications, assuming you can find all of the requisite install media and product keys. You've got to track down drivers on manufacturer product pages that may or may not have even been updated with drivers for your computer. The install time you save versus doing an upgrade install will be more than wiped out by the time you spend getting everything just the way you like it. Conventional wisdom usually says to do a clean install when upgrading your operating system, but operating systems have gotten better at dealing with upgrade installs. This charge is led by smartphones and tablets, which simplify even major updates by making them come down automatically over the Internet. We performed an upgrade install on a Windows 7 PC in daily use so we could see whether the stigma against upgrade installs is still applicable. System requirements Before we begin, let's double-check our system specs to make sure we're good to go. We last looked at Windows 8's system requirements during the Release Preview phase of its development, and not much has changed since then. Anything sold with Windows 7 on it should run Windows 8 just fine without substantial hardware upgrades. Anything sold during the Vista era should run fine also, as long as you've got enough memory and a sufficient graphics card. Microsoft's official line is that any computer that can run Windows 7 is capable of running Windows 8. In our experience this is generally true: slower and older hardware will run Windows 8 and desktop applications about as well as ran Windows 7 (and performance is improved in some cases, as we'll see in our benchmarking section). Drivers developed for Windows Vista and Windows 7 will generally work in Windows 8, though the older the drivers are the higher the risk is that something will go wrong. However, there are computers that will run Windows 8, and then there are computers that will run Windows 8 well. While an old Atom netbook will run the new operating system, its slow CPU and integrated graphics processor will likely choke on games and other graphically intense applications from the Windows Store. Additionally, there are some features that won't work unless your system has certain hardware features—there will be games that require a tablet's motion sensors, for example, and snapping Windows 8-style apps requires a screen resolution of at least 1366×768. If your screen resolution is lower than 1024×768, you won't be able to run any Metro apps at all. Even so, you don't need cutting-edge hardware to run Windows 8 and most of its apps well. Any mainstream dual-core processor and relatively recent Direct3D 10 or 11 graphics card will give you sufficient oomph to run just about anything Windows 8 can throw at your system. RAM is also cheap enough these days that getting the minimum amount for good performance (at least 2GB for 32-bit Windows 8, and at least 4GB for 64-bit) won't set you back much if you don't already have it. For more specific hardware recommendations, we'll provide the table from our previous article: Microsoft's minimum Windows 8 requirements are on the left, and our recommended requirements are on the right. Article continued at source link below... View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamkutopolowk Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 Windows 7 goodbye :sadbye: then upgrade windows 8 pro x64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mo Husen Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 I will wait till more is known & ppl have had a chance to use & review it.Probably more useful if you buy the Surface Tablet & also have a laptop &/or a PC, all running the same system, one needs lots of money to spend as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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