Windows 8 Loaded Dell UltraBook Released

Dell UltraBooks with Windows 8

Dell’s newly released UltraBook series XPS 14 and XPS 15 claim to have Windows 8 operating system in them. Though there is, only a few differences when compared with the older versions of Dell UltraBooks, the new XPS 14 and 15 are thought to be the best laptops in Dell’s manufacturing history. Critics say that the new XPS 14 and XPS 15 are quite similar to Apple’s Pro line notebooks. Nevertheless, the new Dell is better in shape and thinner in size than the standard MacBook Pro.

Unique features of Dell XPC 14 and XPC 15

Both of the Dell’s new Ultrabooks, XPC 14 and XPC 15 are cased in a stylish aluminum case. They have the display feature of sport Corningas Gorilla glass. Both of these products come under the latest series of Intel Core third generation chips and Ivy Bridge machines. The major difference between XPC 14 and XPC 15 is their portability.

While XPC 14 is quite portable but not very powerful, XPC 15 is comparatively heavy and has high performance features. It weighs about 6 pounds and is more like a desktop replacement. All the more, both XPC 14 and XPC 15 are rich in performance, user friendliness, enterprise friendliness and design. During the launch of the products, one of the senior Dell official stated that the new Dell series give the optimal value for gaming and work.

Business Features of XPS 14 and XPS 15

The most attractive business feature of the Dell XPS new release include Dell ProSupport through which users can avail on-site technical support and remote technical support. Users have the facility to avail service from the support team’s enterprise specialist. The new Dell XPS is compatible with the security standards of the Trusted Platform Module.

Upgrade Dell Windows 7 UltraBooks to Windows 7

Windows 7 Vs Windows 8

Both Dell XPS 14 and XPS 18 are preinstalled with Windows 7. However, users have an unquestionable assurance and convenience to upgrade them to Windows 8 and thereby avoiding a conflict between Windows 7 Vs Windows 8 on the choice.

Price

The price of a Dell XPS 14 with a 500 GB SSD storage and 11 hours battery life starts at $1099. When it comes to XPS 15, the price ranges from $1299.

With the new releases of XPS 14 and XPS 15, Dell has once again proved that it can make perfect laptops with affordable price without compromising on performance and unique design.

Upgrade Your Operating System To Windows 8

           Windows 8 installation

So you are still using Windows 7 and has taken a ‘wait and see’ approach to the new OS from Microsoft, the Windows 8. You are comfortable with the old style desktop and prefer to use a keyboard instead of the touch-screen. But you should know that Windows 8 also supports the traditional desktop interface.

Windows 7 vs Windows 8

Windows 8 is the operating system for the next generation computers, gadgets and other mobile devices. It sports a new graphical user interface that takes full advantage of the touch-screen technology.

Upgraded hardware support

The Windows 8 comes with the support for USB 3.0 technology and the Near Field Communication system, which makes the whole process of connecting devices and sharing files more easy and fast. The 4KN Advanced Format enables faster transmission of data within the hard disc.

The Windows 8 is designed to be run on UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) tablets and ARM 32-bit architecture mobile devices. This means Microsoft can now compete with the Apple and the Android Operating Systems for the mobile and tablet OS market share.

Security and Cloud support

Windows 8 comes with an in-built Microsoft Antivirus, the Windows Defender. This is the successor to the old Microsoft Security Essentials. You can also install and use other third party anti-virus programs. Windows 8 also provides support for cloud computing to store and share your data online.

Speed-up Windows 8

You can speed-up the already fast Windows 8 by disabling certain features that take up much of the resources and are not essential. Services like the Windows search can be temporarily disabled. Instead of the Metro User Interface, use the Desktop Interface feature. Disable the Ribbon UI function.

Windows 8 optimization 

        using Registry Cleaner in Windows 8

You can use many Windows 8 optimization tools and applications to boost the Windows 8 performance. Use a registry cleaner freeware to clean the registry of all the errors and the corrupt entries. Download a good Windows 8 start-up optimization tool to speed-up Windows 8 start-up and shut-down. There are many optimization software like the Tune-up Utilities which perform various functions like registry cleaning, disc defragmentation, disc clean-up etc. Once installed these programs will regularly check and fix the errors to maintain the system performance.

Hope you are convinced by the Windows 7 vs Windows 8 argument. If you are one of those Windows 7 users who purchased the OS within the last six months, you can upgrade your OS to Windows 8 for a special discount price. All the new Windows laptops and hand-held devices will come pre-installed with the new operating system.

Tips To Dual-Boot Windows 8 And Windows 7

     Dual boot Windows 7 and Windows 8

Although everybody likes to upgrade to Windows 8, it is not unusual that some of us may be sort of unwilling to leave Windows 7 behind. Despite the fact that Windows 8 has more advanced user interface features, the loss of many conventional features, including the desktop ‘Start’ button might literally confuse the old users and give rise to a conflict between Windows 7 Vs Windows 8 regarding the choice. However, Microsoft has also facilitated dual booting, a feature that lets the users switch between Windows 7 and Windows 8. Read on to understand the instructions to enable dual booting.

Create a new partition

• In your Windows 7 computer, start the ‘Disk management menu’. Navigate to the ‘Start’ button and enter ‘diskmgmt.msc’ in the search box. The Disk Management tool displays all the connected storage devices.
• Highlight the hard drive where you want to install Windows 8. Usually it is primary hard drive Disk ‘O’ which contains the ‘C’ drive and other discovery partitions.
• Check the free space available on the highlighted disk. The entry drive is full in most of the computes where no dual boot setups are installed. In such a case, you are supposed to free an existing drive, preferably ‘C’. A black bar with a title ‘unallocated’ title denotes the free space available.
• Shrink your C drive: point your mouse on the ‘C’ drive and right click on it, choose ‘Shrink Volume’. This will assess free space available on the disk and give you the report. In order to install 32-bit Windows 8, you need to have minimum 16GB free space and for 64-bit Windows 8, the required free space is 20GB. In the box titled ‘Enter the amount of space to shrink in MB’, enter 160000 or 200000. If you want to allocate extra space for programs and files associated with Windows 8, add more space by increasing the number. Hit on ‘Shrink’ to proceed.
  

         Windows 7 help and support

• Choose ‘New Simple Volume’ by right clicking on the new unallocated space. Make sure that the file system type is selected as NTFS. Name the drive ‘Windows 8’.
• Take your Windows 8 installation disc or the USB drive and insert it into your computer. Wait until the new drive is formatted and restart. Ensure that you boot from your installation disc or drive when the system is restarted.

• When the Windows 8 Setup initialization process starts, choose the ‘Custom’ option.
• Choose the new drive to install Windows 8. Ensure that you choose the drive that you labeled to avoid overwriting your current Windows 7 operating system.
• Proceed as per the prompts.
• Once the installation is over, reboot your system. During the restart, a boot screen will appear to choose between Windows 7 and Windows 8.

Make sure you do not have a conflict between Windows 7 Vs Windows 8 when it comes to selection as you have both operating systems installed in your machine.

A Comparison Of Windows 7 And Windows 8

Windows 7 Benefits

Windows 7 was launched by Microsoft with an intention to overcome the drawbacks of Windows Vista. Windows 8 is the upgraded version of Windows 7 from the Microsoft series of operating systems, which also claims for much improved functionality. Both the OS versions can be used for personal and official purpose. Below given is a comparison of Windows 7 vs Windows 8, and certain important points have been discussed.

Processor

Windows 7 uses IA-32 architecture as well as the x86-64 architecture for all other editions except for starter editions. On the other hand, Windows 8 operates on an ARM based architecture, which consumes less power, and works on Intel x86 architecture and many others. Windows 8 comes with a number of sensors consisting of accelerometers, gyroscopes, NFC devices and magnetometers.

User Interface and Touch Apps

Windows 7 came with a touch platform, which was not reliable. However, Windows 8 comes with much improved touch support. You can quit Windows and choose menu contents without any trouble in Windows 8.

Windows 7 has the normal user Windows startup screen while the Windows 8 boasts of the new Start screen, which avoids the usual Start button in Windows 7. The new Start screen was designed to support the touch platform. The touch apps help the tablet users to explore the features of Windows 8. It works on computers with no touch platform also. You can switch between different applications on Windows 8 in a fast manner. The old Desktop interface is also available for those users who are not familiar with Windows 8.

Windows charms

Charms is the new feature introduced in Windows 8. You can launch it by dragging the mouse to the upper right corner or the lower right corner. You can navigate to any location in the computer by entering the respective location names in the search field from charms.

Processing time

Windows 8 processing time is much faster compared to Windows 7. Windows 8 takes less time for booting and shutdown. This improvement can also be seen on transition from sleep mode to normal. File transfers also take less time to complete in Windows 8.

Windows 8 features

Windows Store

Windows Store is an important feature associated with Windows 8. Similar to Mac store, you can download various applications like desktop as well as modern user interface applications for purchase and free.

Other components

Excellent 3D graphics and multimedia performance is an important trait of Windows 8. The Xbox music application also allows you to access music of all genres.

When we compare Windows 7 vs Windows 8, Windows 8 has much improved functionality. Purchasing a Windows 8 computer lets you access the latest technologies and features of new generation computers.

Reviewing Windows 8 With HP Tablets

Comparing Windows 8 with older platforms

The launch of Microsoft’s most awaited operating systems, which could run on any device, unintentionally proved that we are in a post-PC era. Windows 8 may have mixed reviews, but the operating system has yet to unveil many of its features. The introduced “Test” Windows 8 operating system (beta version) has gained much popularity from its release last year and a gradual but steady growth in the market shows that there are users who desire to move on with this innovating technology.

The comparison

Windows 8 is the latest platform developed by Microsoft and thus has features better than the previous versions. But the negative aspect of this platform, according to the traditional users is that all new features are best associated with touch screen devices, and are less friendly towards traditional computers.

If you consider the positive side, super-fast performance and faster boot is what you will find under the hood of Windows 8. Other features include developed Apps, live tiles, Cloud Apps, and a charming charms bar.

The main attraction of Windows 8 is the Metro Style user interface, which entirely separates the start screen and desktop from the earlier versions. When compared the graphics and gaming features between Windows 7 vs Windows 8, Windows 8 has achieved a benchmark, and is far ahead of the older versions. Also if we compare Windows 7 vs Windows 8 startup and shutdown time, Windows 7 takes about 27 seconds to start up and 12 seconds to shutdown, while Windows 8 startup completes in 18 seconds and takes 8 seconds to shut down.

Windows 8 with HP Tablets

Windows 7 vs Windows 8 boot feature

Agreeing with traditional users, that touch screen devices support Windows 8 quite well, and understanding the positive aspects of this, HP is on the path to develop and launch tablets with Windows 8 OS. As per Bloomberg, HP is holding back the release, for the launch of Windows RT tablets which are built with low-power ARM-based processors. The RT device may not support the apps that run on computers with x86 processors, but will offer longer battery life, connectivity solutions at a lower price range. HP though, is focused on x86 processors, which additionally supports every software available for the earlier versions of Windows.

The tie-up of HP tablets with Windows 8 will surely bring about a drastic change in the market. HP has tried many options to make a foothold in the tablet PC market for the last few years. Let us hope for the best for HP in its collabrication with Windows 8.