Upgrade to Win8 the internet way ???–Part I

Recently just saw a few post about getting new Window 8 Upgrade if we have purchase .

Refering to this information from Microsoft .(as below was the min requirement)

We’ve got you covered.

Buy a Window 7 PC and get Windows 8 Pro for RM$49.92.

This price is an estimate only. The actual price of US$14.99 will be billed in US dollars. Offer valid June 2, 2012 through January 31, 2013.

Refer to the information below for the offer details.

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Eligibility Details

The offer is for customers (e.g. home users, students, and enthusiasts) who purchase a qualified PC. A qualified PC is a new PC purchased during the promotional period with a valid Windows 7 OEM Certificate of Authenticity and product key for, and preinstalled with:

• Windows 7 Home Basic;
• Windows 7 Home Premium;
• Windows 7 Professional; or
• Windows 7 Ultimate.

The promotional price is limited to one upgrade offer per qualified PC purchased, and a maximum limit of five upgrade offers per customer.

So let’s start the journey .

of cause first we need to download files from Microsoft to assist us on upgrading

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/upgrade-to-windows-8 , click and download the upgrade assistant and let the ball rolling ,

Please follow the instruction and get the journey started.

Below was the link to registered your new pc based on the condition above to entitle for promo price in (Malaysia) (different country different promo ) I believe this was globally offer to each user who meet the condition above.

https://www.windowsupgradeoffer.com/en-MY/ 

I still in the midst of download the binary , and I will opt for ISO and USB copy for backup purpose as we all know Internet in Malaysia wasn’t stable so far..except for Unifi and Maxis.

I will keep you all posted for my Win8 journey part II.

GeekBench–an alternative benchmark tools for laptop/desktop or even workstation

I believe a lot of D.I.Y fan know names such as Hyper PI ,CPUMARK,CrystalMark etc  and the one bundle with Window 7 Window Experience Index.

I saw on forum where people use this to benchmark server !!!! and size only at 5MB..

I use it to quick test my laptop

Below was the result on my I5 Core machine , I will going to test it out once my order deliver to my door step..a Sandy Bridge CPU..

Check out this link http://www.primatelabs.ca/geekbench/ where you can download the free version for x86 CPU but if you want to have X64 version you will need to pay for it..

Seagate GoFlex vs Toshiba Canvio

 

This was the first time I’m doing a benchmark to compare both of my external 2.5 portal hard drive.

Both GoFlex and Canvio did support USB 2 & USB 3.0 as well ,although GoFlex have a flexible on convert to e-Sata but Canvio also have it feature of shock resistant which both selling at lowyatt at Rm 199 .

I attach now print screen by running CrystalDiskMark 64bit(I’m running a 64bit Wind0w 7) and also download and setup USB 3.0 driver for my new workstation.

Seagate is on left and Toshiba is on right , with USB 2.0 itself  Toshiba is able to outrun Seagate with few MB/s.and per other category also outrun seagate

Now it is time for USB3.0 , it clearly show that with USB 3.0 the speed is up to 200% increase of the speek from Seq to 5.12k transfer category but as of 4k and 4kQD32 it only show a little improve over USB3.0 .

 

Let me check out further on how to improve it over USB 3.0 but overall I’m impress with Toshiba and oversea forum review was correct it was worth the money to gain a distance.

See ya