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Yes, of course I installed drivers.

I'll use XP until Chrome and Firefox drop support. At least until April 2015.

I tried it on a new computer (Haswell desktop with SSD). But Windows 8.1 is still slower than XP.

Even though I disabled all animations I can feel some lag between clicks and response. Probably it's because of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay-gqx18UTM ("Windows 7 GUI slowness")

I'm going back to XP, but I needed to buy a dedicated graphics card because Intel HD doesn't have drivers for XP. And there's also 3GB RAM limit.

Alternative: 10 inch Android tablet for 70$.