I bought a nice Dell Quad Core Refurb last month for $240. It had a date of original manufacture of Nov 2011. It came with Windows 7 Pro and I’m very satisfied with it.
I bought my first 3.1 computer in 1993. I opted for the more expensive 4megs of RAM instead of the standard 2. I’ve been buying Windows devices every other year since.
8 is unusable. I quickly bought another computing device just to have something useable: an IPad, my very first Apple product. My next computer will be a MAC.
I’m not some Apple shill. I’ve been a loyal Windows customer.
8 is a deal breaker. Windows burned a long time customer. I know they don’t give a damn about individual users and so they just don’t care that they put out an unusable product. I’m sure 9 will fix a good chunk of the problems since every other OS from MS seems go work fine.
Still. Until and unless MS makes it right that I spent hundreds of dollars on a useless machine, they will stay on my list that includes companies like govt motors.
Shameless Linux bump! I dumped Microsnot when Vista came out.