I bought a dell vostro 3460 laptop running windows 8 pro to use for my seminars. Core i3 64 bit 250 gig HD 4 gigs ram. I did not want heavy duty stuff in this since it is basically being used to show windows 8 pro and office 2113 and a few Antispyware programs.
For some reason it was not holding a charge ( I have pro support with it). So dell sent me new battery. That did not seem to do it so today they replaced the motherboard only they put a windows 7 board in instead of 8. They are sending new board to be installed Wednesday, but I did not even know there is a difference. It seems now all activation windows 8 keys for new computers or laptops are built into the motherboards instead of being in the OS and if the incorrect board is put in, within 30 days windows 8 will ask for the activation key and if you do not know it, windows will de activate itself and basically self destruct
Microsoft requires this on new machines ( not upgrades) basically to stop hacking windows 8
For some reason it was not holding a charge ( I have pro support with it). So dell sent me new battery. That did not seem to do it so today they replaced the motherboard only they put a windows 7 board in instead of 8. They are sending new board to be installed Wednesday, but I did not even know there is a difference. It seems now all activation windows 8 keys for new computers or laptops are built into the motherboards instead of being in the OS and if the incorrect board is put in, within 30 days windows 8 will ask for the activation key and if you do not know it, windows will de activate itself and basically self destruct
Microsoft requires this on new machines ( not upgrades) basically to stop hacking windows 8
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- 4 Windows 7 Pro Sp1- 4 Win 8 Pro, 1- xp pro sp3
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Dell Optiplex 390, 380, 3 Vostro Laptops (7 computers in all)
- CPU
- desktop/laptop
- Memory
- 4gigs
- Graphics Card(s)
- atm randioum
- Hard Drives
- 350,250