Windows 8

[Rubio1]

I used my DVD player on my laptop yesterday to watch the video that was produced to watch my stepfathers burial at sea.

I also use it for burning pictures to DVD so I have a back up of them.

What then?

Everything you have ever saved to a CD (700 M? each) would fit with lots of room to spare on one of those memory sticks you can hook to your key ring. Just plugs into a USB port.

 

[czygvtwkr]

I like an optical drive myself, I can burn someone a copy of something on a brand new virus free disk and dont have to ask for it back or risk sticking their virus laden USB drive into my computer. And all those old CD's and DVDs I have no use for make great targets.

 

[desertrat]

I like an optical drive myself, I can burn someone a copy of something on a brand new virus free disk and dont have to ask for it back or risk sticking their virus laden USB drive into my computer. And all those old CD's and DVDs I have no use for make great targets.

I have an external HD. Use that. BTW Win8 sux.

 

[desertrat]

I have an external HD. Use that. BTW Win8 sux.

Or maybe it is just the way Dell makes me do stuff that was so easy before. Add users, need a password, need printer driver? Must buy this crap. Thing has no drivers except the stuff in it. Video etc.

 

[GURPS]

The sales guy said they don't come standard so much anymore because everyone has their crap in the cloud, which I despise and think is one of the dumber ideas in computer history.

Not if you were selling online storage ....

 

[GURPS]

I don't mind it. It's pretty good so that all your crap is synchronized across all your gadgets, but I wouldn't trust it so much to back up proprietary info there,

I stopped watching a YouTube Video at work the other day, when I went back to it, to finish watching last night, it picked up where I had paused it

Chrome - sync's the Web Pages I read and my book marks

 

[GURPS]

... and make music CDs so I can listen to them in my car.

... get an updated Radio, use your iPad or a USB Thumb Drive

or in my case an old iPhone 4 with a defective back light

 

[GopherM]

I have an external HD. Use that. BTW Win8 sux.

I've been running Win 8 for almost a year now and the more I use it the more I hate it so it is not my opposition to change. It is the fact that more and more of my apps don't like running with it and I am starting to get more and more driver failures. If the update in October doesn't fix the majority of the problems then I will probably go through the PIA of scrubbing my drive and installing a copy of Win 7 I hung on to.