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Is Windows 8.1 Embedded Good For Weak PCs?

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firstly I would get a new laptop, as that one, how to put this nicely, uuuum is old, yea old and past its day buy several years. as for will it run yes, will it run fast no, windows 8.1 I believes likes a dual core or bigger CPU with a clockspeed of about 2GHz upwards, might be 1.7GHz (if I remember correctly), so you will be under recommended by a long shot and it will be slow as anything, so if you need to run windows 8.1, get a new laptop and then install it onto it, or use win 1 which might come with the laptop, as 8.1 is terrible, win 10 has many a fault but not as many as 8.1 or 8

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Through my college I was able to get a copy of windows 8.1 embedded industry pro and I was wondering if that would run better than the full professional version on an old laptop.

 

The laptop's specs are 

 

CPU: AMD C-50 dual core  1ghz with integrated graphics

RAM: 4GB

 

It shipped with windows 7 home and currently runs windows 10 home albeit slowly. would this version of windows be better for it?

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firstly I would get a new laptop, as that one, how to put this nicely, uuuum is old, yea old and past its day buy several years. as for will it run yes, will it run fast no, windows 8.1 I believes likes a dual core or bigger CPU with a clockspeed of about 2GHz upwards, might be 1.7GHz (if I remember correctly), so you will be under recommended by a long shot and it will be slow as anything, so if you need to run windows 8.1, get a new laptop and then install it onto it, or use win 1 which might come with the laptop, as 8.1 is terrible, win 10 has many a fault but not as many as 8.1 or 8

The owner of "too many" computers, called

The Lord of all Toasters (1920X 1080ti 32GB)

The Toasted Controller (i5 4670, R9 380, 24GB)

The Semi Portable Toastie machine (i7 3612QM (was an i3) intel HD 4000 16GB)'

Bread and Butter Pudding (i7 7700HQ, 1050ti, 16GB)

Pinoutbutter Sandwhich (raspberry pi 3 B)

The Portable Slice of Bread (N270, HAHAHA, 2GB)

Muffinator (C2D E6600, Geforce 8400, 6GB, 8X2TB HDD)

Toastbuster (WIP, should be cool)

loaf and let dough (A printer that doesn't print black ink)

The Cheese Toastie (C2D (of some sort), GTX 760, 3GB, win XP gaming machine)

The Toaster (C2D, intel HD, 4GB, 2X1TB NAS)

Matter of Loaf and death (some old shitty AMD laptop)

windybread (4X E5470, intel HD, 32GB ECC) (use coming soon, maybe)

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1 minute ago, grimreeper132 said:

firstly I would get a new laptop, as that one, how to put this nicely, uuuum is old, yea old and past its day buy several years. as for will it run yes, will it run fast no, windows 8.1 I believes likes a dual core or bigger CPU with a clockspeed of about 2GHz upwards, might be 1.7GHz (if I remember correctly), so you will be under recommended by a long shot and it will be slow as anything, so if you need to run windows 8.1, get a new laptop and then install it onto it, or use win 1 which might come with the laptop, as 8.1 is terrible, win 10 has many a fault but not as many as 8.1 or 8

Believe me I have long since upgraded. I was just curious if there was any way to breathe new life into it outside of installing linux. I wasn't expecting much but I thought I would ask.

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Just now, Chadmasta5 said:

Believe me I have long since upgraded. I was just curious if there was any way to breathe new life into it outside of installing linux. I wasn't expecting much but I thought I would ask.

ok good, uuuum yea no there anit no saving a system like that, unless you use it for basic tasks, a lite version of linux might be usable for browsing he web etc. but there is no hope of getting any new version of windows running on it 

The owner of "too many" computers, called

The Lord of all Toasters (1920X 1080ti 32GB)

The Toasted Controller (i5 4670, R9 380, 24GB)

The Semi Portable Toastie machine (i7 3612QM (was an i3) intel HD 4000 16GB)'

Bread and Butter Pudding (i7 7700HQ, 1050ti, 16GB)

Pinoutbutter Sandwhich (raspberry pi 3 B)

The Portable Slice of Bread (N270, HAHAHA, 2GB)

Muffinator (C2D E6600, Geforce 8400, 6GB, 8X2TB HDD)

Toastbuster (WIP, should be cool)

loaf and let dough (A printer that doesn't print black ink)

The Cheese Toastie (C2D (of some sort), GTX 760, 3GB, win XP gaming machine)

The Toaster (C2D, intel HD, 4GB, 2X1TB NAS)

Matter of Loaf and death (some old shitty AMD laptop)

windybread (4X E5470, intel HD, 32GB ECC) (use coming soon, maybe)

And more, several more

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Windows 8.1 isn't known for being well optimized, so stay with 7.

 

Seriously this laptop is so old you might be able to sell it as an antique. AMD has low IPC, and combine with 1GHz and 2 cores. Ha.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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