Thread: [MERGED] Windows 8 discussion
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Old 08-04-2014, 11:15   #1003
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Re: [MERGED] Windows 8 discussion
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Originally Posted by Hom3r View Post
What do I do with my XP netbook (Samsung NC-10) which doesn't meet the minimum requirements.

Its not used a main machine, so I don't see any really problems, I have avast running and don't plan on accessing any potentially dodgy sites so should be ok.
The Win 8 compatibility checker wouldn't even run on my Dell XP machine, but I've now got Win 8.1 Media Center running fine on it.

You could try a full system backup with a boot disk (I used AOMEI backup), then install a free evaluation version (32 bit is supposed to be lighter on resources). If it fails, you've got a recovery path and you haven't spent anything. If it works, revert to XP and buy an upgrade.

Of course, the experience is likely to be different on a netbook.

EDIT: In the light of Ben B's post below, you could also try a Win 7 evaluation.
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