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Re: Windows 8 and hardware
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Voelker)
Tue Mar 19 09:19:30 2013
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I would highly recommend test driving it for a while first. We have seen a myriad of very poorly written drivers, from graphics cards, to wireless cards, to sound cards for Windows 8. That's something that should be improving as time goes on, but still a warning for lackluster support down the road. As far as Windows 8 goes, wireless and graphics are two of the most crucial and the most buggy from what I have seen.
-- Andy Voelker
Manager of Student Computing in the Technology Commons
WCU Staff Senator (Professional Category), UNC Staff Assembly member
Western Carolina University
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Subject: Windows 8 and hardware
My department at Princeton makes laptops available for students to purchase. We create a Princeton specific software image that comes installed on each laptop.
We're moving to Windows 8 for 2013-14 and are interested in what hardware others are recommending, making available to purchase, or providing to students for the W8. Is anyone offering a non-touch screen model with W8?
Thank you,
Gary Eshbaugh
SCI Coordinator
Princeton
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