I bought a new laptop (cool thingy, it’s a Toshiba Z930 with mem upgraded to 10 Gb, ghi ghi). The specs are really cool: it’s the lightest ultrabook out there (at the time of writing), and while it doesn’t have 1080p resolution, it does do 1366 x 768. Moreover, it’s the only ultrabook which also offers VGA and Ethernet ports. Yeah, these might become obsolete, but I’m an academic, and given the expected upgrade cycle in most universities (“if it ain’t broke, don’t replace it” sums it up nicely), I need that stuff.
I haven’t had time to play with it, I hardly had time to start it up myself. I read that Win 8.1 came out, so I figured to start it up and try to get that on my system – yes, I’ll go for dual boot with Ubuntu (or something else like Mint). Now I have a really cool SSD drive in there – which is not that big. More specifically, it’s 128 GB. Currently, the unusued windows partition is leaving me with 50 GB usable space of that. I started doing windows update, which kept repeating and repeating, every time ending with a reboot and more updates to install. The first update required me to download over 1 Gb of updates. And that was nowhere near the end of it. I was down to 50 GB out of 128 GB (unformatted) before I started this, and your updates are eating away gigabytes of that???
Seriously, Microsoft, go jogging. You’re becoming too fat to sit on my disk.