M$ have turned into Apple

**Marmite the Dog** · 07-03-2014, 01:56 PM

I bought the oldest lad a new laptop. It came 'pre-installed' with Linpus Linux, but it basically only to give boot options.

Now that manufacturers are embracing UEFI instead of good old fashioned BIOS it means M$ can lock users in to using Win 8. Wankers.

So, instead of simply putting a working version of Win 7 on it, I have to fuck about DLing the right version of Win 8 (RTM) and then crack it using a KMS Activator (which the lad being a dickhead will undoubtedly delete or allow the anti-virus software to kill it 5 mins after getting his hands on it).

I'm not paying over 5k for a kosher version.

**peterpan** · 07-03-2014, 02:00 PM

Happy days

**harrybarracuda** · 07-03-2014, 02:57 PM

Can you not disable it in the BIOS?

**Bettyboo** · 07-03-2014, 03:35 PM

Microsoft have always been that way...

**bsnub** · 07-03-2014, 03:40 PM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Can you not disable it in the BIOS?

I did on a friends laptop. He despised Windows 8 and so I rolled him back to 7. I would just stay away from UEFI products.

**Marmite the Dog** · 07-03-2014, 05:32 PM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Can you not disable it in the BIOS?

No - Acer have set it so it cannot be changed to legacy mode.

Originally Posted by bsnub

I did on a friends laptop. He despised Windows 8 and so I rolled him back to 7. I would just stay away from UEFI products.

I tried (a dozen different ways). the Win 7 install just hangs as soon as the start-up screen starts to load.

**bsnub** · 07-03-2014, 05:36 PM

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

I tried (a dozen different ways). the Win 7 install just hangs as soon as the start-up screen starts to load.

I defeated it on a toshiba laptop as I had the same problem. I cant be bothered to post a tutorial tonight as I am on the piss but I may tomorrow.

**aging one** · 07-03-2014, 06:16 PM

The university just gave me a Lenovo think pad, the value I think is about 20,000 baht. It came with windows 7, and after a month I took it to the uni computer shop and they entered the key information to make it real. Very happy indeed with it. Mostly 6+ hours battery life. Mine was made last year. Wonder why the one you bought is so different. Cheers.

**baldrick** · 07-03-2014, 07:44 PM

F2 on boot gives you what ?

can you create a UEFI bootable USB stick - http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials...e-windows.html

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Acer

serves you right

**aging one** · 07-03-2014, 07:50 PM

Originally Posted by baldrick

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog Acer serves you right

That is the brand they are replacing!!!

**Rural Surin** · 07-03-2014, 07:54 PM

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

Microsoft have always been that way...

Yes....not your friends.

**MeMock** · 07-03-2014, 08:16 PM

What a load of gobbledegook! Why didn't you just get yaself an apple and save yourself all this trouble?

**aging one** · 07-03-2014, 08:23 PM

stubborn fat aging old git is why, or marmers. Drives a Ford if ya dont know.

**harrybarracuda** · 07-03-2014, 08:26 PM

Acer are shite.

**Sailing into trouble** · 08-03-2014, 09:13 AM

Bios remember that from the dark ages!

Posted from my Mac.

**Marmite the Dog** · 08-03-2014, 06:21 PM

I bought a cheap laptop for my oldest lad. If it was for me, I would've spent more.

I wouldn't buy a Mac as there are too many compatibility issues with the main things I need it for.

**Thormaturge** · 08-03-2014, 06:47 PM

Originally Posted by Sailing into trouble

Bios remember that from the dark ages!

Posted from my Mac.

I remember FORTRAN 66 and punch cards, if we are really going to talk about the Dark Ages. I was born the same year as Steve Jobs but didn't want to spend my life programming computers, which I figured any fool could do, so I quit Computer Science after the first year and studied Economics instead. Slaps head.

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