I have a new Asus UltraBook S56CM. I am normally an Apple Mac guy, but require the Windows laptop for IE8 or 9 access into my clients web applications. Because the laptop is pre-installed with windows 8, I cannot install retro versions of IE. I tried the VM route to install Windows 7 (Technet Professional N version). Trouble with that was I ran into so any driver issues it became a total nightmare and abandoned that route. My next thought is dual boot, but have concerns I might still have driver issues. I like the ultrabook and don’t want to return it if I can avoid it. The laptop has 1TB HD (C: 375gb D: 625gb approx), with 6GB RAM so no issues there. I did try Firefox as an alternate browser and it works not too badly. I get one or two minor issues with how things get rendered, but nothing that upsets me. However my client is seriously unhappy with me using Firefox, and the client is god! Two questions:
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Is the dual boot the way to go, and???
???if so how do I go about setting up dual boot on an Asus UltraBook with win8 pre-install?
OK three questions!
I thought when I bought the laptop I could simply re-format the HD and install Win 7. Got that wrong, didn’t I. It is challenging to resist making comments about Micrrosoft’s ?????????.!
Thanks in advance.
