TBH there is surely an improvement from w8 to current w8.1, I am not very familiar with the details, I ran w8.1 altogether 8 hours, not more. Why should I bother with an OS I don't like and when I have w7 licenses already from my employer? When Vista had been released I was disappointed, also when w8 had been... But retrospectively I have to say. The changes at Vista have been made in the name of tech and desktop improvement. Vista paved the way for w7. Vista created the needed time for the OEMs to develop drivers, especially for the x64 architecture. At w8 I only recognize their need to integrate apps and to worsen desktop use..... BTW: What are HP spare parts??? I mean hardware components are standardized.... There are SATA-III drives, DDR-4 memory, ATX mainboards, Socket 1366 CPUs and so on… If one buys proprietary stuff then one cannot complain to have become dependent on them…
If you build your own PC you never know if there will be something that is flawed/defective but with the wealth of info online and reviews of others experiences you can for sure limit it with a bit of reading to educate yourself. If you build your own IBM clone then it is a matter of switch out (picking) parts until you get what you want, case, power supply, motherboard, cpu, ram, drives, video cards, sound card, etc. can all be switched out and even to different manufactures, intel, asus, gigabyte, amd, NVidia and so on. With your own PC and educated choices you can count on companies such as intel and such make chipset drivers for a new OS. You buy a dell, hp or something of this nature you get inferior quality for the same money. They make machines that they count on you doing a total upgrade, that is how they make money. Why would you do that or complain about it? The dell laptops that I installed take me a day to source what's in there and driver sources (other than dell site) for them. This thankfully is not something I do often and if you need portable do a cheap tablet. Desktops are the powerhouses and for most this worktop will not change for some time to come. I do not want to carry my 30" monitor around and have no need to, but for sure will not give it up. By the way it is a dell and I will not be upgrading or fixing it any time soon . Regards
Yeah, that's true. But you will at least try to minimize the need for unnecessary upgrades and you can't always wait or go for the latest tech. I usually hand down my stuff to my wife when I replace something, but this time it didn't work out as I planned it, because I cut myself a bit short back then, when I went for the P8P67. I just wanted to hand down my "old" 2x GTX680-SOC-2GB + 900Watt PSU, but the P8P67 can't take them both. Now I have to sell one of the GPU's which isn't really worth it, because I will possible make a huge loss. So at the end I tried to save maybe ~100 bucks on the MoBo back then and will now possible loose ~200 bucks on the GPU, but to simply get a better MoBo is not worth it either, as I will possible hand down my actual MoBo + CPU to her next year and new / good Socket-1155 MoBo's are already very rare. It's always a bit of a gamble, but still better than going for that "off-the-shelf" boxes. Some of the Sound-Issues came actually from Realtek-Chip's which I thought should be fine, at least better than all that other strange Brands, but you usually get what you pay for. I saw Dell's, where you couldn't put a MoBo from a different Manufacturer in their case, because the part where you had to screw the MoBo on was specially made for their Home-Brand-MoBo (some cable ties and a piece of cardboard fixed that for me). Or when they connected the front-panel via special connectors and cabling to the MoBo. There is always a way around for yourself, but you can't fix things that way for a customer.
It looks like an µATX MoBo to me...you could replace it with a similar. Yes PSUs have been always special from them, but why? You have named the 2 worst companies Dell and HP I'd newer buy a thing or sell if you are a seller.... HP = Compaq. That's the only way to stop that... BTW: I never had a problem upgrading my own assembled PCs, I have trusted brands... And I also need no windows 8 certificate on it...I can run what I want...
Thanks. Btw: Sorry to have moved a bit off topic....originally it started with OS development why the changes and the difference to Vista...I hope I have not disturbed the postings of breaking news of win9 and threshold...
That notion of going to have Windows 9 named 'Windows' doesn't seem plausible. Afterall, there is no time Microsoft has ever planned for that in the time leading to release of Windows 8 or 8.1 versions. The only confusing thing about Windows OS is the build and version nomenclature that is difficult to decipher. I don't think naming Windows 9 as Windows is going to impact the confusion in versions and builds. Indeed, it is going to compound the problem when there is going to be different platforms for the product in the coming releases. Me too. There is speculation that it going to be an app you can install and uninstall.