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<p>The 15.33.x release from Intel was listed as first week July - latest (15.40.x) is first week August, if I'm reading my backwards American dates correctly</p>
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<p>Neither was available.</p>
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It's the Lenovo [s]Surface Pro[/s] Ideapad Miix 700.</p> -
<p>Jeez that's pretty skinny. Still has actual ports on it though.</p>
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<p>I saw someone's Macbook Pro 12 the other day - its tiny, but then you have to carry around a dongle to do anything with it besides drink ethical mocha frappachino shots in the wankiest cafe you can find while looking at neckbeard websites on it through your glassless glasses.</p> -
<p>I took the plunge, seems to be good aside from the fact it seems to restart the laptop randomly (assume it is W10 given it didnt do it before) plus the fan sounds like it is working overtime now and again too (again, didnt do it before) </p>
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<p>I'm just using Windows Defender </p>
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<p>I'vve always used it, yet the odd thing always gets through, as I do a full scan and it finds it (assume looking where the quick scan didnt?)</p>
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I discovered I had to change from avast antivirus because it doesn't play nice with Windows 10. Have gone back to AVG</p></blockquote>
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how so NTA? We use Avast business free and I have it running on our Group manager's Surface 3 which is running Windows 10. He isn't one to mention anything though. -
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I'vve always used it, yet the odd thing always gets through, as I do a full scan and it finds it (assume looking where the quick scan didnt?)</p></blockquote>
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Yeah still a necessity. Best to use in conjunction with a good malware scanner like Malwarebytes. <br><br>
Yep quickscan only checks the most common areas. Personally I've found avast the best AV going around. The business free edition is particularly impressive, a great option for small to medium sized businesses with bugger al IT budget. -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Rembrandt" data-cid="545249" data-time="1448780947"><p>how so NTA? We use Avast business free and I have it running on our Group manager's Surface 3 which is running Windows 10. He isn't one to mention anything though.</p></blockquote>
Wife's PC was a Win7 upgrade to 10. One day after logging in, she just got a black screen and while Taskmgr was still available, nothing else was. <br><br>
Multiple restarts, safe mode etc but to no avail. Change to AVG, problem solved. Have read a few little things about it having issues, and while I've been a big fan of avast I can't go on like that.<br><br>
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Cheers good to know. Manager's one hasn't had anything that bad. I wonder how they might go removing avg then installing avast again. I've found that removing an AV before the windows 10 upgrade has increased chances of success so all my upgrades are AV free to begin with.
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<p>True. I've just updated my personal hobby laptop from 7 to 10, will keep an eye on that to see how it goes as well. I've got a lofty goal of bringing all the Win7+ PCs in the companies I work for up to W10 before the free upgrade runs out (June I think). Would be nice to have a standard OS for a while though I'm still awaiting a significant number of XP machines to die of natural causes.</p>
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<p> Can't be arsed changing it because its still got the MS SQL setup I need for the elements of my work</p>
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<p>Just to bump this - Windows 10 is good. I have been using it for a number of months. It is mainly intuitive. It doesn't do things that fuck me off all the time.</p>
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<p>Windows 8.1 was a steaming pile of shit - so bad that Bill Gates' successors and minions gave me a whole new operating system for free, which is a lot better than the usual do-nothing letter of apology - though both replacement and letter were really warranted.</p>
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<p>In the spirit of this thread - and without digging out the earlier one - those who taunted me and tried to tell me that Windows 8 was any good can go fuck themselves. :)</p>
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<p>I upgraded to Windows 10 a couple of weeks ago. A rocky start to the relationship, download/install took 4 hours, it chewed up 160MB of metered data in an hour with the fucking auto updates, and the five min plus wake up from sleep mode/10-15 minute restarts nearly saw the laptop in pieces on the floor.</p>
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<p>Blessings on the people who wrote articles on how to backdoor stop auto updates (because unlike earlier versions, the option isn't in the main menu) and tell the system you're on metered data. I also clicked the option of no sleep mode.</p>
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<p>I fucking hated Windows 8 so bad, Windows 10 is a giant improvement for me in ease of use and layout. But we'll see.</p> -
I think it is being offered free until June. I have to make the call at work whether to bring all out W7 and W8 PCs forward. Its a no-brainer for W8. Unfortunately just with my test PCs I have a failure rate of about 50% doing the auto upgrade and that takes hours uf successful and then double that if unsuccessful with a generic error and it has to revert. On the plus side I haven't seen it brick a pc...yet