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Saturday Tech Bits

[Jan 05, 2013, 5:43 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

France to introduce mandatory reporting of nanomaterials in 2013. Thanks Acleacius.
Nouveau Driver Remains Much Slower Than NVIDIA's Official Driver.
Catch Up Via Video With World of Commodore 2012. Thanks Ant.
Microsoft gently reminds us cheap Windows 8 upgrades end soon. Thanks HARDOCP.

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Re: Saturday Tech Bits

Jan 6, 2013, 13:10

Ant

peteham wrote on Jan 6, 2013, 08:46:
I'd consider getting this Windows 8 upgrade for my laptop at this price (mainly for the slightly improved battery life), if it wasn't for the upgrade reportedly requiring the presence of an existing Win7 installation every time you want to do a full system wipe/reinstall. Granted, I'm not doing those nearly as often these days compared to the XP-or-earlier era, but even so. Having to FIRST install Win7 and then running the upgrade installer every single time, is too much hassle. So I'll just stick with 7.

Yep, that's upgrade. You need retail to do clean installs. OEM doesn't work well if you want to reuse it on new hardwares since it is only for installation for the same PC. DRM FTL.




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