can I upgrade to windows home premium? And is it good for gaming, games like killing floor, team fortress 2, left4dead 2, garry's mod, and max payne 3
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Every time a new operating system comes out, it requires a more powerful CPU and a lot more ram. It might run windows 7. I hate windows 8, and windows Vista was terrible. It will be slow with games. I do not really know. dshollismd
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Yes, Windows 7 Home Premium (both 32 and 64 bits) will install and run, although with only 1GB of RAM it will be quite painful. The recommended specifications for those operating systems is 2GB and 4GB. If you define gaming by those Source engine titles, then it'll run those, but the Intel GMA 950 display adapter will struggle to make them playable unless you turn down the settings significantly. Max Payne 3 will not function at all as it doesn't meet the minimum specs.
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Sorry, I don't know, I got it to play doom, probably a more basic game than yours.
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Every time a new operating system comes out, it requires a more powerful CPU and a lot more ram. It might run windows 7. I hate windows 8,and windows Vista was terrible. It will be slow with games. I do not really know. dshollismd
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Honestly I probably wouldn't say so. It is a duriable computer for the price. I run it 24 7 as a webserver
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The others were windows 8, but that could change any time. Upgrading only requires a decent internet connection - the download is almost 4GB. It's free.If the upgrade doesn't show up right away in the windows store, install all of the windows updates you can install until there aren't any more. It should show up in the store as a part of the windows updates.
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Whatever you want essentially just depends on what setup you go with. I have Windows 7 on mine. Had Windows 8 but dislike it for gaming.
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Correct. You can install Adobe Photoshop, AutoCAD, World of Warcraft, or any other memory and performance intensive program, game, or software. Anything windows, although like Mr. Reed said, since it is running windows home premium, you might not be able to run programs made back in the day for windows xp or older, but you can always upgrade your operating system later, up to windows 7 professional for $70, and gain the ability to run all of those xp or older programs. But yeah, just look at this tablet as a VERY portable desktop.
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My concern was to get Windows 7, 64 bit. As far as the rest, I don't really know, but I have downloaded for free anything I have wanted to add.
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You should be able to. I can play counter strike global offensive and left 4 dead 2 easily. You won't be playing maxed out graphics. But it is a budget laptop.
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It is possible to run Win7 on it, but you have to adjust the BIOS settings to turn off UEFI. Truthfully, 8.1 is actually pretty good. The learning curve from 7 isn't bad (I just stay on the desktop all the time) and some of the newer features are actually quite useful.
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Well be honest with yourself. Just get the 128GB with Home Premium because you know you're going to put Windows 8 on it as soon as you get it out of the box.
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Before replying, may I suggest you get the newer version, CorelDraw X6. Another Amazon vendor is offering the X6 version for just a dollar or two more, which is the product I purchased just last week. You used the term "upgrade." However, nothing I noticed in the product I recently purchased identified it as an upgrade. On the "honor system," you're expected to be a home or student user, thus entitling you to purchase this full X6 version I purchased at a deeply discounted price. You'd also be entitled to making three installations and a license number was provided with the product, too. In other words, it's a full version, not an upgrade version. I installed it without a hitch. By the way, I'm also running Windows 7 Home Premium on an I5-3450 processor. So, as far as I can tell, you'd be perfectly "good to go" buying the X6 version I purchased for about the same price. Good luck with it.
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I have Windows 7 professional on mine. I may have paid extra to have professional vs. home.
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I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit but not Ultimate 64. The EX4 16TB works fine with Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit without a glitch.
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I have Windows 7 Home Premium and it plays great! I really like the graphics, too. The sound is good and it's responds quickly after a play.
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I have Vista Home Premium and it works fine. Was recognized as soon as I plugged it in.
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Yes. Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate support up to 192GB of ram. Home Premium onlys allow 16GB max. After that, it now all depends on how much memory your processor and motherboard can support.
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Assuming you have FULL versions of W7 and W8.1, each 64 bit, then your choice is which version do you want. Either, in your case, will require the same work on your part. The pro version of W7 is somewhat equivalent to the pro version of W8.1 so you could go either way. The home premium version has lesser functionality so I would go with W8.1. (Too bad your hard drive failed and you downgraded to 32 bit.)
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I'm Running Windows 7 Home Premium. It would not work for me for what ever reason.
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You can get it with Windows 7 Home Premium, it is model 2311 (as opposed to this model with Windows 8, 2310). If you need the features of Windows 7 Pro, you can buy the "anytime upgrade" from Microsoft, although it's prohibitively expensive. Occasionally they sell on eBay for ~$40. If you live near a MicroCenter, they have the 2311 model for $350.