My laptop is a touch screen, but I mostly engage that when scrolling the tile screen up to peruse the neverworld of the installed programs (this is what is most despised by 8.x users), which as others have mentioned, you can get around with a third party shell.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dennis > Fleming > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2014 7:52 PM > To: RBASE-L Mailing List > Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: OT - laptop > > Thanks all for the real world help. > Seeing all the options was a bit overwhelming. > Touch screen instead of a keyboard, convertible laptop to tablet, etc. > I guess we're not in Kansas anymore. > ... > > > At 02:43 PM 10/1/2014, you wrote: > > > Dennis, > > I had to do this a few months ago. I now have an HP Elitebook 850 > i7 with > 8.1/64 and a 500 GB SSD I had installed by the retailer. (It also > came with > a 32GB SSD as well as a standard HDD - I also had some more > memory added.) > It is very fast and a pleasure to use. Running 8.1 is not an > issue in my > view, however you can always download a free shell, which is what > I have on > a small VAIO I also use which started out with Windows 8. > (Website is > www.classicshell.net). <http://www.classicshell.net). /> That > makes the desktop run pretty much as a > 'standard' Windows machine. > > Purchasing the HP dock is also worth considering. (You could > connect a USB > CD drive in easily via that if required.) > > I also installed a SSD on my main PC recently - it certainly > makes a > significant difference to the performance. > > Regards, > > John Docherty > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [ mailto:[email protected] <mailto:rbase- > [email protected]> ] On Behalf Of Dennis > Fleming > Sent: Thursday, 2 October 2014 4:16 a.m. > To: RBASE-L Mailing List > Subject: [RBASE-L] - OT - laptop > > Any suggestions for upgrading an old HP laptop (XP) to a new > Windows > 7/8 laptop? > I have still another user on my MS word office so I may need a cd > drive. > > TIA, > > Dennis > ***** > Dennis Fleming > IISCO > www.TheBestCMMS.com <http://www.thebestcmms.com/> > Phone: 570 351-5290 > > --- RBASE-L > ================================================ > TO POST A MESSAGE TO ALL MEMBERS: > Send a plain text email to [email protected] > > (Don't use any of these words as your Subject: > INTRO, SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, SEARCH, > REMOVE, SUSPEND, RESUME, DIGEST, RESEND, HELP) > ================================================ > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > Send a plain text email to [email protected] In the message > SUBJECT, put > just one word: INTRO > ================================================ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: > Send a plain text email to [email protected] In the message > SUBJECT, put > just one word: UNSUBSCRIBE > ================================================ > TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > Send a plain text email to [email protected] In the message > SUBJECT, put > just one word: SEARCH-n (where n is the number of days). In the > message > body, place any text to search for. > ================================================ > > > Dennis Fleming > IISCO > www.TheBestCMMS.com <http://www.thebestcmms.com/> > Phone: 570 351-5290 --- RBASE-L =======================3D=======================3 D= TO POST A MESSAGE TO ALL MEMBERS: Send a plain text email to [email protected] (Don't use any of these words as your Subject: INTRO, SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, SEARCH, REMOVE, SUSPEND, RESUME, DIGEST, RESEND, HELP) =======================3D=======================3 D= TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [email protected] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: INTRO =======================3D=======================3 D= TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Send a plain text email to [email protected] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: UNSUBSCRIBE =======================3D=======================3 D= TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: Send a plain text email to [email protected] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: SEARCH-n (where n is the number of days). In the message body, place any text to search for. =======================3D=======================3 D=
