First impressions of Windows 10

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There’s a Microsoft site somewhere where you can download it whenever.

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Now I am curious. Is there something I am missing about a Macbook Pro that makes it better than say a Lenovo Carbon X1 or a similarly spec’d Windows based laptop?

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My main reason is being able to jump between OS X and Windows. On a more “personal choice” front, I love the keyboard and the trackpad on the Macs.

:smiley:

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I just recently tried upgrading my desktop to Windows 10. Unfortunately, my video card had enough and decided to quit working on me. I built my desktop back in college about 7 or 8 years ago and it was due to upgrade the RAM. Unfortunately the motherboard I had wouldn’t support DDR3+ and had a capacity of 4gb. Which also means my chipset would only work with a few older motherboards.

I did the math and by the time I got a new video card, motherboard and RAM with potential to get a new CPU I was in a deep hole. That said, I visited my local Microcenter and ended up getting a new box, an Asus G10AJ and since they had a sale on monitors too so I picked up a Samsung 34" curved monitor. Least to say, after setting it all up I am wondering how I was getting along with my custom build! Screen is beautiful and the box screams. No Windows 10 upgrade issues with this bad boy.

The best part is my custom build sounded like a 737 taking off when it started with all the fans and the new setup has liquid cooling and I have to bend down to even hear it. This is exactly why I am only allowed to visit Microcenter twice a year because I’m like a starving kid in a candy store.

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I hope windows 10 does that for me…

…whenever it comes

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I wasn’t kidding in my earlier post: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

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I read somewhere that that was only for “tech savvy” people, which immediately excluded me.

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I think the process was: download some sort of installer, click ‘next’ a few times, then let it install and restart a few times with some more dialogs/wizards in between.

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Well that sounds like something even I could handle. I’ll give it a try sometime, thanks

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TC - did you end up upgrading to it?

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Hmmmmmmmmm!

There appears to be some bug with my combination of motherboard, Sandy Bridge processor, and Windows 10, because 137951632% CPU usage seems a bit high. Only found this thread so far, and there seems to be disagreement about whether or not updates are available for the relevant BIOS/UEFI.

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Not yet; I haven’t been on my computer in a while. I’ll go try right now…

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Or maybe I won’t because I don’t even know where it is haha…

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Is “MS-DOS Executive” still deep under the hood running the show? :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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After some frustration, I finally got it installed. Really like it so far; nice and minimalistic. No Cortana in Canada for some (surely stupid) reason. I like the new browser and I especially like that there is only one now. It’s nice that the traditional desktop apps and the windows store apps are integrated into one place.

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Hi I am trying to update my system from windows 7 to windows 10 but I am getting an error as
"Windows couldn’t be installed
We couldn’t update the system reserve partition"

Please Suggest What’s need to be done

Thanks in Advance…
Regards
George

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My general take is to always do a clean install. Backup your important data first, of course. You should also ask here: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us?auth=1

You’ll get more help if you would like to still explore the possibility of upgrading your machine.

Cheers,
Kirupa

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Thanks For the link…

Regards
George

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I don’t like it
Windows 8 is better

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Windows 8 or 8.1? :evilsmirk: