We have a $20 copy of Win8 Pro, a new 27 inch touch monitor and a 500 GB SSD to deploy. What is the best combination to enhance prepared 3-D?
1.If Win8 has better touch environment & upgradability to Win10(AND This is huge... directX-12..."At its Siggraph.... http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/187970-directx-12-reduces-power-consumption-by-50-boosts-fps-by-60-in-new-tech-demo ..." DirectX 12 consumed 50% less power than the DirectX 11 version. In a similar demo, the higher efficiency and lower overheads of DX12 allowed for a 60% increase in frame rate over DX11 while consuming the same amount of power. "), split SSD partitions 230 GB Win8 OS, 270GB to fully re-installed P3D, configs,scenery,weather,aircraft.
2. Install Win8 on 1/2 SSD as dual boot OS; Complete full P3D 2.4. Partition (image) copy On other half of SSD. By freeing the old drive letter and reassigning to the SSD clone of p3d, everything should work booting from old Win7 Pro.
Day to day, boot to Win8Pro. For P3d, boot to old Win7 Pro but launch PDV2.4 from cloned SSD, thus faster access and loading.
3. A.Clone current bootable Win7 Pro ~ 180GB To SSD.
B. Clone current I: (PDV2.4 ~260GB) to remainder of SSD.
C. Forget Win 8 for now.
4. ?
...5?? your suggestions...
Chas