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Just to add a bit of color, over the weekend I upgraded an old Acer netbook to Windows 8.1. The specs weren't great: 1.6GHz first gen Atom/945 PCH, 1GB Ram 250G
by Moto7451 13y ago
Just to add a bit of color, over the weekend I upgraded an old Acer netbook to Windows 8.1. The specs weren't great: 1.6GHz first gen Atom/945 PCH, 1GB Ram 250GB hard drive.
Overall Windows 8.1 is faster and more usable, with the BIG exception of the screen's 1024x600 resolution being unsupported in Metro (which made getting Windows 8.1 interesting). Intel has a hack to show a "larger" resolution in that space. Once Windows 8.1 was loaded I gave the laptop back to my Aunt. She'll probably never think about the Metro side of things (she'll use it as a large start menu for her traditional Windows apps) so that will be fine. I'll probably throw some more memory in there and it'll work for the next couple years.