8/22/2023 0 Comments Nview desktop manager hotkeyTime was running short, so for that trip, I had to revert back to Windows 7. Once I installed what was supposed to be Windows 8 video drivers (ATI), Minecraft would run, but then the system would “blank out” after some time, and then not respond until you hard rebooted it. I attempted to configure it for my son to use while we were going away for the weekend, but it had an issue with Minecraft complaining about video drivers. Now, I was still playing with Windows 8 some on the old system. This was partially due to budget, and partially I found I like a smaller to medium footprint in a notebook, but still wanted decent hard drive space. Specifically a MacBook Pro 13″ – the base model, but had the RAM upgraded to 8GB. ![]() So in the end I chose a Mac, and purchased one about a month ago. I’m hoping that Blue, now to be officially Windows 8.1 will solve some of this. In the end, it still feels pretty disjointed. I still find it odd though that some system settings are in Metro, while others are still in the traditional Control Panel area. I’ll be honest, I am not quite as negative on Windows 8 as I was previously – there are noticeable performance improvements, and I started getting a little more used to the Start screen (once getting in the mode of hitting the windows key, then typing what app you want – ala Unity in Ubuntu). After all, I did want to give it a fair shake since I had not really used it since Consumer Preview. After I wrote my past post, I went and installed the evaluation version of Windows 8, and chose to use as my primary system, which turned out I did so for about three weeks.
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