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Well, my first Win8 equipped laptop is on the way from Newegg. It was a great deal on a refurb AMD A-8 with 4GB RAM and a 500GB drive for just a tad over $200. My first step will be to pull the Win8 drive and put it away in case I ever want to try it - but that's doubtful. Then I'll shut off all the UEFI and secure boot in BIOS and load up a Linux distro.
I think I'll go with MX-14 as the first as it is just a great distro, everything works smoothly and great help is available quick. I haven't used an AMD based laptop in over 6 years so I'm curious to see how the performance stacks up versus Intel. My others are a Core I-7, I-5 and I-3 so I'll have fair benchmarks to test it against in real life operation.
As this will be a continuing saga, I'll update this thread during the journey...
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I think I'll go with MX-14 as the first as it is just a great distro, everything works smoothly and great help is available quick. I haven't used an AMD based laptop in over 6 years so I'm curious to see how the performance stacks up versus Intel. My others are a Core I-7, I-5 and I-3 so I'll have fair benchmarks to test it against in real life operation.
As this will be a continuing saga, I'll update this thread during the journey...
Continue reading...