On the fence

[cutterjohn]

(05-07-2014 06:04 PM)Brad Barton Wrote:  The title might be little misleading. I'm definitely going to buy a Prime, but I'm on the fence as whether to pull the trigger right away, or wait until they become available with the "just-on-the-horizon" firmware update.

The only thread I could find about updating the firmware suggested that the users were having a hard time getting through that step, but that could've been a Linux issue. If that's a problem on all platforms, I don't want to buy one and be stuck with the older firmware.

I'm running Win8 and would like to know if anyone has been successful using the Prime connectivity kit on Win8 to make firmware updates. If it's a no-brainer, that'll help me decide when to buy. If it's a problem, I'll wait. Does anyone have experience with that?

It's easily(stupendously so) upgradeable(and it's REALLY REALLY REALLY FAST for a calc 50g -> Prime is WAY more impressive than 28S -> 48SX or 48SX -> 49G). i.e. I'd only wait if you think that the price might fall further...

win8: hmmm... so far only tried it on my win7 x64 pro desktop, but I'll try to remember to try it on my 8.1 pro notebook unless someone is already doing it or beats me to getting around to trying it out. I'd imagine that it should work just fine though, although I customized the crap out of win 8.1, i.e. startisback, turning off all the useless secur annoyances(same as in win7), not installing stuff to "Programs XYZ", etc. (I really don't use windows to do anything useful, as that's what linux is for...)