Windows 8?

[pomc]

I'm building a jukebox for my uncle and need to buy him a PC. Normally I buy from the Dell Outlet site because of the great deals, but many of the desktops are loaded with Windows 8.

Anyone here use Windows 8 on their jukebox? This would be strictly used for music and not for karaoke or videos.

Thanks,

Rick

[Barcrest]

I'm building a jukebox for my uncle and need to buy him a PC. Normally I buy from the Dell Outlet site because of the great deals, but many of the desktops are loaded with Windows 8.

Anyone here use Windows 8 on their jukebox? This would be strictly used for music and not for karaoke or videos.

Thanks,

Rick

Just downgrade it to windows 7 or even better XP if you can get the drivers for XP. I down graded a laptop last friday, it wasn't as straight forward as you would think, I had to really mess around in the BIOS to get it booting from the CD then delete all the partitions on the disk before i could install windows 7.

[pomc]

That's a consideration if I can't find a good deal on a PC loaded with Windows 7.

Actually was thinking that maybe I'll give him the XP PC in my MAME arcade machine and use the $$ he gave me to tech refresh the arcade machine.   

[Norman Marshall]

Im using win 8 on my pc and e-touch runs fine, win 7 on me juke and that runs fine aswel, If your gonna use xp might i suggest you buy a 6 year old second hand hand pc that comes with recovery disks as finding drivers for new motherboards for an unsupperted xp might prove diffacult

[pomc]

Thanks for that info!

[Barcrest]

Once you have the PC set up for the jukebox i recommend taking a ghost image, it's a lot quicker to restore that than re-installing everything if it goes belly up.

[pomc]

This PC would be more the adequate for running the juke, right? Running XP and Plus it has a serial port so I don't have to use the serial to USB adapter for my old Elo touchscreen monitor I'm giving my uncle.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7210400&CatId=5139

Will def make an image....do that for all my systems - ESPECIALLY ones I build for someone else.