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You missed an order of magnitude from the end.
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I've made some minor adjustments to my tablet and I can pretty much say it's done, my new battery pack has also recently arrived
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Windows 8; Cool, not for business, just for show.
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That's what it wants you to think. Apple was using their evil socialist liberal gay rights agenda magic to fool you into thinking they weren't the problem.
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Can anyone remind me where to find microsoft's windows 7 downloads?
I need to format a partition of my main HDD and it wont let me.
(I also couldn't find a better place to post this, and if there is could you please let me know?)
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Here you go.
Also, I think the right section would be Technical Support but there's also a thread in General Hardware and Software for small questions that don't deserve a thread.
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What exactly is that comprised of?I've made some minor adjustments to my tablet and I can pretty much say it's done, my new battery pack has also recently arrived
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Tablet materials.
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I've used my old and somewhat broken Asus A6JC as a base, chopped it off and inverted the LCD screen, modified the body so it could be placed upside down(?), had to make some adaptations in the LCD cables so it would connect properly, had to make more changes in the LCD bezel too so the resistive panel I've bought from a dealer would fit, cut it a little so it could do it perfectly, Removed the DVD drive to place the digitizer inside and other stuff inside it (No one uses physical media anymore), Shrunk the panel's ribbon and soldered it to the digitizer, then I've soldered the digitizer into the motherboard (What a pain it was, considering the soldering iron wasn't sticking to the board), Originally it was sitting outside in a standard USB port, after the touchscreen was working I had to modify the driver so it could be recognized as a touch panel instead of a mouse, so Windows 8 gestures could work, luckily this hacky technique wasn't need in the Release Preview, also I've replaced the cells of the battery, which were dead and started to heat up when I was replacing them
, I had to make a custom power button to power it up, but I was afraid of the soldering iron not sticking like before, so I've made a mechanical side power button, and I'm planning to replace the HDD with an SSD (CF cards in IDE slot can do wonders)
Big wall of text, but in a nutshell it's basically this, I might have forgotten a thing or two, I have some pictures of the building process but I've never bothered to organize them
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I'm guessing two ingots of Tabletite, a small sack of rough-hewn glass, and an enchantment of usability?
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Man did you take pictures of the process? you should make a thread about it!I've used my old and somewhat broken Asus A6JC as a base, chopped it off and inverted the LCD screen, modified the body so it could be placed upside down(?), had to make some adaptations in the LCD cables so it would connect properly, had to make more changes in the LCD bezel too so the resistive panel I've bought from a dealer would fit, cut it a little so it could do it perfectly, Removed the DVD drive to place the digitizer inside and other stuff inside it (No one uses physical media anymore), Shrunk the panel's ribbon and soldered it to the digitizer, then I've soldered the digitizer into the motherboard (What a pain it was, considering the soldering iron wasn't sticking to the board), Originally it was sitting outside in a standard USB port, after the touchscreen was working I had to modify the driver so it could be recognized as a touch panel instead of a mouse, so Windows 8 gestures could work, luckily this hacky technique wasn't need in the Release Preview, also I've replaced the cells of the battery, which were dead and started to heat up when I was replacing them, I had to make a custom power button to power it up, but I was afraid of the soldering iron not sticking like before, so I've made a mechanical side power button, and I'm planning to replace the HDD with an SSD (CF cards in IDE slot can do wonders)
Big wall of text, but in a nutshell it's basically this, I might have forgotten a thing or two, I have some pictures of the building process but I've never bothered to organize them
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Anyone know what will play blu-rays in windows 8? WinDVD, PowerDVD, and VLC refuse to work.
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did you try this http://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/
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Having some issues with Windows 8 on VMware.
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Here is the truth..
Windows 8 sucks, now it's said.
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Windows sucks, yet we all use it. (Or actually most of us)
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Doesn't work. VLC either crashes or it won't play the movie.
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Nice!I've used my old and somewhat broken Asus A6JC as a base, chopped it off and inverted the LCD screen, modified the body so it could be placed upside down(?), had to make some adaptations in the LCD cables so it would connect properly, had to make more changes in the LCD bezel too so the resistive panel I've bought from a dealer would fit, cut it a little so it could do it perfectly, Removed the DVD drive to place the digitizer inside and other stuff inside it (No one uses physical media anymore), Shrunk the panel's ribbon and soldered it to the digitizer, then I've soldered the digitizer into the motherboard (What a pain it was, considering the soldering iron wasn't sticking to the board), Originally it was sitting outside in a standard USB port, after the touchscreen was working I had to modify the driver so it could be recognized as a touch panel instead of a mouse, so Windows 8 gestures could work, luckily this hacky technique wasn't need in the Release Preview, also I've replaced the cells of the battery, which were dead and started to heat up when I was replacing them, I had to make a custom power button to power it up, but I was afraid of the soldering iron not sticking like before, so I've made a mechanical side power button, and I'm planning to replace the HDD with an SSD (CF cards in IDE slot can do wonders)
Big wall of text, but in a nutshell it's basically this, I might have forgotten a thing or two, I have some pictures of the building process but I've never bothered to organize them
So how did you install w8 on it in the first place, must 've been a pain in the ass?
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uhhh
what universe do you live in because vista is on the list of suck not 7.
also get off vista
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Soz mates, I ment 8
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thanks for your opinion.
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why does it suck, though?Soz mates, I ment 8
list reasons that aren't metro
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VLC + AnyDVD HD = Blu-ray bliss.
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I already said some reasons in this topic, I will write them again.
I installed Windows 8 on my Laptop.
I hate the design, it freezes.
It has a FPS drop, 7 has way better FPS.
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Then you have a problem with your installation. For everyone else Windows 8 is loads faster, but just in your isolated case it's slow. Now, what sounds more likely: you have a problem and Windows 8 is not actually terrible - or - Windows 8 is terrible and everybody else is just fucking lucky?
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It is called a beta version for a reason.
You still list the design a a reason why it sucks
It runs at the same FPS every damn OS in the world does.
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What?
Windows 8 runs smoother than windows 7.
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Besides that one freezing bug everything runs a lot faster than windows 7, not to mention boot up times being about 10 seconds and I don't even have an SSD in my laptop.
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http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/28/m...e-way-from-xp/
Nice. Or, supposedly nice.
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Going from XP to 8 would be quite the odd experience.
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They will all bitch and then demand XP be supported longer.
Microsoft will then proceed to tell them all fuck you get on 7 you old fucks.
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Yeah they should definitely offer XP -> 7, because I know a lot of people who won't have the patience to learn 8.
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In all honesty they've been out of the loop for a long while and it's completely their responsibility to catch up. It is going to take some getting used to, but that's what you get when you stay behind. I don't believe it's Windows' fault.
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I doubt there will be very many people on XP that have computers good enough to run 8 that haven't already upgraded, but do plan on upgrading.
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For the last 4 weeks I have been using Windows 8 on my laptop (Some C2D at 2Ghz and a 8600GT) which I use as a media-center computer and I love it. With large DPI, the Metro start menu is a joy to use on my TV-screen and it is very easy to navigate with the wireless keyboard I use. The system runs good and it starts up extremely fast. Great job Microsoft.
I still can't see the real benefit of the Metro start on a desktop though.
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Just installed Windows 8 Release Preview.
The DVD drive is finally working. Fuck yeah.
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I'm considering dual booting Windows 8 preview with Windows 7. I've set up dual boots between 7 and various Linux distros before, but is there anything special I'll need to know?
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Also are there any reputable torrents available for the dev preview? Because I really don't like downloading such large files through Firefox and I don't trust TPB for OS images.
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If you choose 7 on the OS selection screen, your PC reboots into 7.
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I'm not entirely sure I understand the significance of that.
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It's annoying and takes longer. Any time you want to go into 7 you must first boot into 8 and tell it to boot into 7. You can set 7 as the default OS in msconfig and it'll go back to the original dual boot method.
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