User:USMAN.1

What is the difference between a DOS laptop and Windows 8 laptop? A DOS laptop means that it is practically unusable since the OS is is more than a decade old.You have to remove that OS and install a usable one like the recent version of Windows/Ubuntu.This is the reason laptops that come with DOS are cheaper comparatively. Both DOS(Disk Operating System) and Windows 8 are operating systems. DOS doesn't have any graphical user interface i.e. you have to type command for everything, even for something as simple as opening a file, which was a big headache for users.

Then graphical user interfaces started coming. The last GUI operating system that was built on DOS was Windows Me and it was a huge disaster. It was bad in just about every way.

Concurrently, Microsoft had the NT OS in production, mainly targeting business users. NT stood for "New Technologies". NT OS turned out to be a huge success since it wasn't limited like MS DOS .Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 2003, 7, 2013, 8, 10 are all built on Windows NT.