Gaming Laptops

[Racerboy]

Win 8 confuses me

if anything it's simpler than windows 7 lol

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[ultimamax]

Does it have to be Nvidia?

http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Laptops/HP-ENVY/C9W57AV

This one is pretty good. You can customize it too.

You're probably not going to find retail windows 7 laptops anymore. Microsoft is trying hard to push windows 8. If you got a used laptop off craigslist or ebay, maybe.

[DRiOD]

how

I don't know where to click i just see a lot of colorful squares

[Blockzillahead]

if anything it's simpler than windows 7 lol

Yeah this is true, it looks like they actually attempted to make Windows 8 idiot proof by making it really obvious to use with it's interface because many people bitches that Windows 7 was confusing for some reason.

I don't know where to click i just see a lot of colorful squares

It has an actual desktop, that doesn't have the squares btw. Check up on it because I don't think you've seen it fully. That squares desktop is the metro desktop, like I've said, the idiot proofed version of the actual desktop.

[Titanium Man]

I don't know where to click i just see a lot of colorful squares

are you like some grandma who just sat down in front of a computer for the first time?

[psychomutt]

are you like some grandma who just sat down in front of a computer for the first time?

that or hes never actually used windows 8

[DRiOD]

Is AMD good?

[DRiOD]

that or hes never actually used windows 8

I used my cousins

[Titanium Man]

that or hes never actually used windows 8

i mean if you went to 1st grade and can read something called "words" im sure you can get along easily

Is AMD good?

yes

[DRiOD]

Is it possible to remove some of them cause im sure i wont be using some of these
tabs

[Titanium Man]

Is it possible to remove some of them cause im sure i wont be using some of these

you can download classicshell to make it like windows 7

[Subpixel]

Is it possible to remove some of them cause im sure i wont be using some of these
tabs

If you played around with windows 8 for more than 2 seconds you'd know you can right-click apps to unpin or uninstall.

[DRiOD]

Does it have to be Nvidia?

http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Laptops/HP-ENVY/C9W57AV

This one is pretty good. You can customize it too.

You're probably not going to find retail windows 7 laptops anymore. Microsoft is trying hard to push windows 8. If you got a used laptop off craigslist or ebay, maybe.

Either getting this or customizing my desktop

[Blockzillahead]

http://www.startisback.com

Puts the start button back, and it's an actual start button. Idk how it works but I think it edits some registries to make itself an actual part of the OS, who cares, it works.

yes it's not free but there's a trial. it's only $3 dollars for 2 licenses though.
-it disables the corner gestures. especially that annoying one in the top right corner when you try to exit an application by the X button.
-always boots to this real desktop and not the squares desktop
-the start button actually functions like the real windows 7 start button.
-you can change the start button icon
-you can disable those metro apps like the music player and other stuff which are the idiot proofed versions of the real ones.
-you can also customize the whole menu in other ways too.


Looks normal to me.

[Racerboy]

Although I feel like windows 8 is only useful on stuff like the windows surface tablet and other touch-screen laptops, if it's the only decent option then you should really accept it and check out these workarounds as posted above.

I haven't had many great experiences with HP in my life, but that laptop doesn't look too bad.