FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - Windows 8
Thread: Windows 8
View Single Post
Old Feb 12, 2013 | 3:37 pm
  #187  
Starwood Lurker
Company Representative - Starwood
 
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Austin, Texas
Programs: Marriott Employee Level
Posts: 31,593
Originally Posted by Jimmie76
This sort of dovetails with my experiences of getting 8 to work on an old (or should that be ancient) machine. However I decided that rather than me doing the donkey work with trying to get the ancient Sony Vaio VGC-V3M XP machine belonging to a family member to work with 8, I would have the folks at our local PCWorld shop do it. Okay so it was costing me £60 for them to do it but I didn't care as it meant I wasn't looking for drivers etc. So I am then told a few days later that they can't do it - machine too old and will have to refund me all the charges. So I asked about adding memory and the bloke says Fuhgeddaboudit just buy a new one.
Apparently, in my case, it was the processor. At no time during the trial run process that you can go through before actually purchasing was the processor identified as a problem. There were things that were listed as not being compatible, but I was prepared to forego those and use alternatives.

Hopefully, Microsoft continues to support XP for a while longer. I don't have any intention of buying a new computer anytime soon.

Best regards,

William R. Sanders
Social Media Specialist
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide

[email protected]
Starwood Lurker is offline