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abbycadabby (original poster member #27428) posted at 9:17 PM on Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
Whew! Order placed. I'll let you guys know what I think about it. I'm a little leery of the Windows 8 OS, but maybe I'll get used to it without much hardship.
I'm excited-it's purple!!!
Thanks again for all the help.
Mama_of_3_Kids ( member #26651) posted at 12:45 AM on Friday, May 24th, 2013
You will probably get used to it, eventually, but it's really a PITA until you get used to it. Honestly if I could do it over, I'd go with the slightly cheaper Win7 b/c I dislike Win8 that much 
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abbycadabby (original poster member #27428) posted at 1:26 AM on Friday, May 24th, 2013
Mama- I expect a big ole "told ya so" from you when I'm on here venting about it in a bit! 
Seriously, it should be fine. I imagine it will take some getting used to.
Tred ( member #34086) posted at 1:30 AM on Friday, May 24th, 2013
I was trying to push Win7...not my fault it doesn't come in purple! And yes, it has a DVD+RW optical drive. I hope you enjoy it, and if you don't like Win8, there are a lot of third party apps to restore stuff like the start menu.
Married: 27 years (14 @JFO) D-Day: 11/09/11"Ohhhhh...shut up Tred!" - NOT the official SI motto (DS)
abbycadabby (original poster member #27428) posted at 1:35 AM on Friday, May 24th, 2013
Tred- I know. I probably should've gone with a plain colored laptop with Win7 but I just couldn't resist the color! I'm a sucker for colorful. 
ETA: and who knows? I might like it once I get used to it.
[This message edited by abbycadabby at 7:37 PM, May 23rd (Thursday)]
Mama_of_3_Kids ( member #26651) posted at 2:09 AM on Friday, May 24th, 2013
With what you're going to be using it for, you may not dislike it as much as I do 
Me: BW/33 The kidlets: DS16, DS12, and DD10 The hounds: Three Shih Tzu's The felines: Two short haired kitteh's
LisaP ( member #15088) posted at 4:01 AM on Sunday, May 26th, 2013
I am coming in here a little late...but I am an online student and just purchased the MS office professional package directly from the Microsoft web site. They offer students the software for $99 which is a great deal!
Good luck in school!
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abbycadabby (original poster member #27428) posted at 2:27 AM on Tuesday, May 28th, 2013
Thank you LisaP! I'll check that out.
abbycadabby (original poster member #27428) posted at 2:10 PM on Thursday, May 30th, 2013
Got my shiny new purple laptop yesterday!
Windows 8 has me like this 
for now! It's definitely going to take some getting used to. And in my defense, I didn't have much time to really get involved with playing with it.
I love it so far-it's really nice. It seems gigantic and it's kind of heavy, but I'm sure I'll get used to that as well.
Thanks so much for all the tips and suggestions. It all really helped, and I appreciated each of you taking time out to respond. 
Tred ( member #34086) posted at 2:36 PM on Thursday, May 30th, 2013
Awesome Abby! I have zero advice on Win 8, but I think 8.1 is coming out soon. There's probably plenty of online tutorials for it. I'm sure you'll be an old hand at it in no time. Congrats!
Married: 27 years (14 @JFO) D-Day: 11/09/11"Ohhhhh...shut up Tred!" - NOT the official SI motto (DS)
RyeBread ( member #37437) posted at 9:00 PM on Thursday, May 30th, 2013
Have fun with the new toy/computer!
Let him that would move the world first move himself. - Socrates
abbycadabby (original poster member #27428) posted at 2:44 PM on Friday, May 31st, 2013
Thanks guys! I'm getting a little more comfortable with it.
abbycadabby (original poster member #27428) posted at 12:50 AM on Saturday, June 8th, 2013
Okay! I'm super comfortable with my new laptop! I know you guys were just waiting with bated breath for my update!
I am posting on it right now! I can do this!
As an aside, I'm already getting grades back on submitted assignments, and so far I've gotten As!
tired girl ( member #28053) posted at 4:06 AM on Monday, June 10th, 2013
Hlessons and I both have new laptops with the win 8 and we both hate it. Mostly because there is a glitch with the win 8 and the wi fi portion of it. You can get repeated issues with loading pages sometimes. We seem to have the biggest problems with this in one particular room in the house. This seems to be a known problem with the program.
I have the touch screen, I do like that part of the program.
I also do all online school, good luck with your classes
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