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  1. 1. How old is the PC you installed Windows 8 on?

    • Brand new build/buy
    • 1-2 years old
    • 3-4 years old
    • 5 years old and above
    • Nope, its still on 7
    • Nope, its still on XP


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Even though my computer is three years old the following are upgrades were done during the past two years:

2 - SSDs (Sandisk 240 gig, and an Intell M 25 80 gig)

1 - AMD 6 core processor

1 - USB 3.0 4 port card

1 - DVD/CD/Blu-Ray SATA 3 drive

Ram upgrade from 4 to 16 gigs

Ugrade from Win 7 to 8.

These upgrade should allow we at least another two years before upgrading to a new system.

I have a Compaq Presario laptop from 2011. I currently have Windows XP installed on it. I'm seriously thinking about upgrading to Windows 8 though. I'm very impressed with what I've seen of Win8 thus far.

You won't be disappointed. Just make sure you get the latest touchpad drivers.

Dell XPS 410.

The only upgrades to the specs of the machine (that make a difference in performance) are upgrading to 4GB of RAM from 2GB (this was done back in 2008 [machine bought in 2006]), a Radeon HD3850 that I added on...also back in 2008, and putting in an SSD in 2011.

The only other changes were adding a Blu-Ray drive, a wireless card, tv tuner (now removed), 2 additional standard SATA drives, and that's it.

It runs things very well...and still plays all of the latest games with good detail. I do intend to upgrade at some point...but being that this is a BTX machine it means buying pretty much everything new...case and all.

Mine is a first Gen i3 from 2010, but I'm looking to buy a new pc

I'm eyeballing the Lenovo Yoga 13' but I want to read some more reviews first.

Or maybe I'll wait and see what those new Clover Trail Atoms do once they come out.

Also looking into buying a Surface RT for my girlfriend, she only uses her laptop to browse the internet and play some simple games

I've been saving for a year now. Going to go for the first time for a desktop on 2013.

I'm currently under a Dell XPS M1530, which I bought 4 years ago. September 30, 2008. Used Windows 7 for almost 4 years, since the leaked beta on Dec NEVER LOOKED BACK.

Win 8 is simply amazing with lightning speeds and long battery life.

Might upgrade soon, where's the web site where I can legally get media center for free from M$ till jan 31st? Just used 8 few min ago at staples on a Samsung tablet ( non rt) and man it's fast... Metro was somewhat easy to use on a touch screen... Have to admit, ( albeit some tiny issues, fat fingers) btw, how are the speed of transfer of 8?

Almost 4yo, still rocking

Corsair 800D

Corsair HX1000w

Intel Xeon W3520 @4.5GHz (Basically a i7 920 with crazy O/C potential)

eVGA Classified 3

12Gb DDR3 G.Skill Trident 2000MHz

2 x Radeon 6950

2 x Intel X25-M 80Gb RAID-0 (OS + programs)

1 x OCZ Vertex 3 128Gb (Games)

2 x WD Caviar Green 1.5Tb RAID-1 (Stuff)

Xonar Essence STX

Watercooled

And a brand new MacBook Pro Retina

i7 2.3GHz

16Gb DDR3 1600MHz

GeForge GT650M

256Gb SSD

  • 2 months later...

http://en.wikipedia....8Inspiron_15.29

Inspiron 1545 (it was given to me)

Mine has a C2D (T6400), no bluetooth, 4GB Ram. It's a little old, but it really screams with 8 on it! I think I'm having some slight chipset driver issues, but that'll get ironed out with time...it's not a show-stopper or anything, but occasionally, audio stutters for a few seconds (had the same thing on 7, but used older chipset drivers and it solved it...those drivers don't work with 8 without forcing them...which I don't want to do, so I'll wait and see if intel releases any proper chipset drivers for this system that are 8 compatible)

My current PC is nearly 7 yrs old (bought March 2006). Will be upgrading it to Windows 8 on Thursday (payday).

It is AMD64 3500+

1GB RAM

It has a new 1TB hard drive to go with the other couple of smaller ones I have and also has 1GB 9800GT video card.

Have run both the CP and RP on this machine (with 1GB RAM) and it works a lot better than its current XP install.

Can't really put an age on my desktop since it's been upgraded with something almost every year.

In December 2007 it had this: C2Q Q6600, 2 GB of RAM, 8800 GT, Audigy soundcard, GA-P35C-DS3R as the mobo, and a WD 500 GB (WD5000KS?) as the drive for Windows. Primary OS was XP and sometimes dualbooted into Vista.

In 2008: Swapped Audigy for an X-Fi Prelude and put in a WD6400AAKS for the Windows drive.

2009: Added 4 GB of RAM for a total of 6 GB. Stopped dualbooting and stuck with Windows 7.

2010: (no updates this year... I think)

2011: Swapped out the aging PSU (was 5.5 years old) and replaced the case just for the hell of it.

2012: Swapped out the 8800 GT after it began artifacting for the GTX 670. Replaced Win7 with Win8 in late August. Threw in a SSD for Windows. Got a larger monitor.

I left out adding in secondary hard drives since those don't really contribute to the core build. But otherwise this system could be considered 3 years old or 5 if you're going by the oldest part. That's the beauty of modular DIY PCs.

The laptop is easier to calculate. 2 years old with a SSD and memory upgrade.

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