Solved computer speed and windows 8 (archived by Mimus)

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Best thing to do first is to have a look at your device manager and see if there is any hardware not installed/installed with wrong drivers, if so, install correct drivers/update drivers and check everything again.
Windows 7/8/8.1, personal preference really, but indeed, windows 8 has been built more with mobile/touchscreen devices in mind, whereas 7 is like the "classic" feel we all know of, but 8.1 will be somewhat of a mixture where the regular startmenu/button will reappear and settings will be more configurable towards the "classic" feel, so it's really up to you what you fancy.

Also, latops WEREN'T made for gaming in the past, but nowadays most of them (with dedicated gfx card and vram) can live up to the task, and not limited to the ones Surma said, Asus, Acer, MSI,..... etc. all have their lines of high-end laptops which all do fine for gaming.

Grtz.........................