{"id":1112,"date":"2014-06-11T18:16:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T08:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2014-06-11T18:20:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T08:20:02","slug":"w8ting-for-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/2014\/06\/w8ting-for-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"W8ting for perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

So a relative recently purchased a Windows 8 laptop, and as their resident “computer person” it was my pleasure to “just set it up” for them.<\/p>\n

I figured it would be informative to compare the setup steps for a new Win 8 laptop to a new MacBook Air…<\/p>\n

Windows 8.1 preparatory process on\u00a0???-branded\u00a0laptop<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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  1. Attach battery<\/li>\n
  2. Plug in power cord<\/li>\n
  3. Open lid<\/li>\n
  4. Press power button<\/li>\n
  5. Wait a few minutes while Win8 boots for the first time<\/li>\n
  6. A setup wizard automatically launches – allowing you to name & customise the laptop.<\/li>\n
  7. Wait another few minutes while Win8 finishes the setup, and then boots & logs in<\/li>\n
  8. Discover a start pane filled with manufacturer’s bloatware<\/li>\n
  9. Right-click & remove all bloatware links<\/li>\n
  10. Launch Desktop<\/li>\n
  11. Try to open the ‘remove applications’ Control Panel, but keep getting bumped into the start panel.<\/li>\n
  12. Launch IE, go to ninite.com, and install ClassicShell (and 7zip and Firefox and …)<\/li>\n
  13. Once installed, use classic start menu to open Control Panel and remove all manufacturer’s bloatware, including Norton Security<\/li>\n
  14. Reboot to finish removal of bloatware<\/li>\n
  15. Attempt to open Microsoft Security Essentials, but it fails with cryptic error<\/li>\n
  16. Google for reasons, learn that Norton disables it, and follow steps required to re-enable it<\/li>\n
  17. Discover that Windows 8.1 exists and should be a free upgrade in the Store<\/li>\n
  18. Go to Store, observe it is not there<\/li>\n
  19. Google for reasons, learn that perhaps Windows Update needs to install some items<\/li>\n
  20. Run Windows Update<\/li>\n
  21. Wait about 20min while it installs all “Important” items<\/li>\n
  22. After reboot, observe upgrade is still not in Store.<\/li>\n
  23. On a hunch, check Windows Update and observe that there are still 52 “Important” updates still outstanding.<\/li>\n
  24. Wait about 15min while it installs all these “Important” items<\/li>\n
  25. After second reboot, resignedly launch Windows Update again and observe another 33 “Important” updates outstanding<\/li>\n
  26. Wait about 25min while it installs all these “Important” items<\/li>\n
  27. Reboot a third time.<\/li>\n
  28. Launch Store, and observe Windows 8.1 available!<\/li>\n
  29. Click ‘Download Windows 8.1’<\/li>\n
  30. Wait about 60min while upgrade files are downloaded<\/li>\n
  31. Wait another 120min while upgrade occuring<\/li>\n
  32. Go through another setup wizard (which asks the same questions as the previous setup wizard)<\/li>\n
  33. Launch Windows Update again and install six more updates<\/li>\n
  34. Reboot again, then enjoy your operating system<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Mavericks setup process (on Macbook Air)<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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    1. Attach power cord<\/li>\n
    2. Open lid<\/li>\n
    3. Auto-powers on<\/li>\n
    4. Wait about 10 seconds while Mac boots<\/li>\n
    5. A setup wizard automatically launches – allowing you to name & customise the MacBook<\/li>\n
    6. Wait another 15 seconds while Mac logs in and launches “welcome” window<\/li>\n
    7. Open App Store<\/li>\n
    8. Observe “OS X Mavericks” visible in main pane on front page of App Store<\/li>\n
    9. Click Upgrade<\/li>\n
    10. Enter AppleID credentials<\/li>\n
    11. Wait about 60min while upgrade files are downloaded<\/li>\n
    12. Click Continue, then follow wizard steps to initiate upgrade<\/li>\n
    13. Wait about 60min while MacBook upgraded<\/li>\n
    14. After reboot, enjoy new operating system<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      So a relative recently purchased a Windows 8 laptop, and as their resident “computer person” it was my pleasure to “just set it up” for them. I figured it would be informative to compare the setup steps for a new Win 8 laptop to a new MacBook Air… Windows 8.1 preparatory process on\u00a0???-branded\u00a0laptop: Attach battery… Continue reading W8ting for perspective<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,6,59,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-ios","category-microsoft","category-tech","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1RxuW-hW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}