Nice to have mention of a 1st-hand experience w/ the fact that Win8 is not hardware demanding! Helps dispel the myths & rumors being spread towards need to make hardware changes & or loss of ability for things to install or run. Telling folks this (about Windows 8) is all well & good but, from someone who has actually done it, even better. W/out delving into WHY, as far as the technology under the surface, Windows 8 is WHAT it is & 1 of what makes it special, is how little it demands & how much it is compatible. Thanks.
Drew
At the risk of sounding 'dense', what exactly is "Hardware Demanding" ???
I would have to say, from my own vast experience
that Win-8 is, if anything,
Hardware Friendly.
Here's why I say that.
My Main PC which day in and day out runs Winders XP-Pro-SP3, is now going on five years old.
I've already had to remove the bulging capacitors and replace them with new ones. But this MSI
mobo is pretty main stream as far as the drivers it requires. Nothing weird or unusual.
I said all that to say this:
I've installed Win-8/DP several times already, for one reason or another. The last time I installed
it on a fresh, clean HD, being the only HD connected to my mobo at the time, and I had left my
Epson Workforce 500, AIO printer turned on, which it is a lot.
So when the Win-8 installer did it's thing, it picked up all the hardware inside my system and then
if found my printer and installed that too. WOW! How it do dat?
It didn't have a specific driver for my Winfast video card, (which I think uses some NVidea chipset) but it loaded some kind of generic driver that just works GREAT!
It would seem to this old guy, that Win-8 has one heck of a (huge) driver store and is exceptionally intuitive in finding and loading drivers that just WORK.
With every previous OS that I've installed, I've had to dig out my motherboard driver disk, my video
card driver disk and my Epson install disk. What a pain in the arse that can be. Eh?
Like ducks, driver disks seem to just Go South after a while.
So, with experience comes knowledge and my experience tells me that Win-8 is going to be very user
and hardware friendly. At least once you disable that nuisance called the 'Metro UI'.
There must be a self destruct timer built into Win-8/DP somewhere, but I really hope that some very
smart programmer (Hacker) finds a way to disable it. Just sayin'
It would make a very nice OS
for the really
Po' folks of the world. (I'm almost there!)
Cheers Mates!
Me