08-24-2012, 02:43 PM
huckleberrypie Wrote:So, any verdict on Windows 8?
Not quite there yet. It's going to take a few days to come to a final conclusion as to whether or not I will convert one of my computers to Win8, but I am now considering making Wendell a test machine. The only real hardware I attempted to run Windows 8 on was Chrysanthemum, but she is far too sick to be useable with Win8. I do have Wendell's Win7 restore discs I made, and Toshiba has nearly every vital system driver for Win8 available on their support website.
You know? Yeah...I will go ahead and run the Win8 RP on Wendell. It expires in January 2013, which gives me time to gather resources to get the RTM version when the time comes...if I want to upgrade to Win8.
In a few days (maybe by Sunday or Monday) I will decide whether or not I will go with the Win8 upgrade. If I do, Wendell will be the first one to get the upgrade. As for Greta, I will wait until Gateway offers an upgrade guide or driver/software set before I take the plunge. I could have been part of an offer to upgrade to Win8 for $14.99, but I purchased Greta at the end of April, and the offer only includes PCs purchased from June onward.
As for the video encoding on Lilly
I'm converting my three R1 Little Polar Bear DVDs, and I am getting an encode rate at 110+ FPS during first pass encode, about the same as WinXP!
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