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Rainbird on 29 February 2012
superchunk said:

ok, that must of been what I saw. I thought it was permanent option like how all Windows have a way to go to "classic" views. Point is still the same though as you can just as easily use kb/ms. However, I know I'd rather have a larger tablet style screen at an angle in front of me than kb/ms.

Definitely, for most things at least. I feel like giving my home the Windows 8 treatment. Like an all-in-one on the wall when you walk through the frontdoor, and you just touch it to turn on the heat, your music, whatever really. ^_^



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superchunk on 29 February 2012
pezus said:
I think I'll prefer M/KB over touch any day of the week. What if your hands are not very clean? Kind of annoying to have to wash your hands multiple times a day. What about gaming? What about the ease of use of a mouse (with different levels of sensitivity to small movements)?

You shouldn't be using a kb/ms with dirty hands either... gross.

As for gaming, ummm plug in a usb/bluetooth controller.

As for mouse... sorry, but my fingers are far easier to use than a mouse and if I need precision for drawing or something, then I can still use a mouse or simply have a stylus pen like what's being shown with the new Samsung Galaxy Note products. In fact, a stylus would be preferred.



superchunk on 29 February 2012
Rainbird said:
superchunk said:

ok, that must of been what I saw. I thought it was permanent option like how all Windows have a way to go to "classic" views. Point is still the same though as you can just as easily use kb/ms. However, I know I'd rather have a larger tablet style screen at an angle in front of me than kb/ms.

Definitely, for most things at least. I feel like giving my home the Windows 8 treatment. Like an all-in-one on the wall when you walk through the frontdoor, and you just touch it to turn on the heat, your music, whatever really. ^_^

Yuuup, or voice controls for that stuff ideally.



thx1139 on 29 February 2012

Wow so much jumping to conclusions.

Try it 1st.

Works perfectly fine with keyboard and mouse. Games dont follow Metro style applications they have complete control of UI. You still have the desktop for desktop apps.



Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.

Soleron on 29 February 2012

You'll still be able to exit out of Metro and pretend it's Win7. They're just not going to add cool stuff to that interface any more, except more ribbon (lol).

That said, touch OSs are not the future for normal computing, I don't care how cool it is it's just not practical.



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Rainbird on 29 February 2012
superchunk said:
Rainbird said:
superchunk said:

ok, that must of been what I saw. I thought it was permanent option like how all Windows have a way to go to "classic" views. Point is still the same though as you can just as easily use kb/ms. However, I know I'd rather have a larger tablet style screen at an angle in front of me than kb/ms.

Definitely, for most things at least. I feel like giving my home the Windows 8 treatment. Like an all-in-one on the wall when you walk through the frontdoor, and you just touch it to turn on the heat, your music, whatever really. ^_^

Yuuup, or voice controls for that stuff ideally.

That too. Or stepping into your living room, Kinect recognizes you and logs you into your home devices.



superchunk on 29 February 2012
pezus said:

Not dirty per se, just not completely clean. I'm the only one who uses my mouse anyway so I don't find it gross

As for gaming: No, thank you. m/kb works better in many types of games. I prefer to have the option to do both

As for mouse: Have to disagree there. You'd have to keep moving your whole hand and would get tired after a while. Mouse is far easier when using bigger screens because small movements can translate into big movements on the screen


True, touch screens will show oils from hands and that will need more wiping.

by controller, I meant it could be any controller option, including kb/ms. It would obviously have USB connections and probably bluetooth.

I guess we'd agree to disagree here. But, from what I've seen with drawing tablets and graphic design stuff... touch and pen would be far better. Also, you still move your hand(s) a lot know between full kb and on/off mouse etc. I know when I go to retailers with touch options for stuff, I am far happier using that than if it had a kb/ms.



Mistershine on 29 February 2012

Will be trying this on the W500 tomorrow. If anyone wants to try but isn't keen on installing it on their PC, try this:

http://reboot.pro/6851/

It will install it to a USB HDD or a 32GB pendrive for you and make it bootable.



Stefl1504 on 29 February 2012

Hummm first impression... I don't get it...
Opening Apps (Damn that term) does nothing other than a fancy effect and then showing me its icon in fullscreen? Great, just what I need :/ BTW... I am posting from my Windows 8 Test Version right now...

Edit: UUH! The new Task-Manager is cool! The most important Windows-Programm was made even better!

EDIT2: I LOVE IT WHILE I STILL DON'T GET ANY APP TO WORK IT ACCEPTS MY PS3 CONTROLLER WITHOUT PROBLEMS!!!

Edit3: Okay... I hate it again... not without Problems...

Edit4: Well after looking into it a little more is... it is still Windows, after removing all the XBox adds I was fine with it, wish it wasn't such a bitch and I don't really know why they 'removed' the start button when all you have to do now is to wait several seconds with your mouse on the right edge of the screen and tadaaaa~ there it is once again... also I don't get why they had to add a additional appbar on the left when they simply could add the apps to the taskbar, finally I hate all sorts of vanishing bars... I want them to be permanent or not to appear at all... ribbon still sucks but is made survivable because of not being so obsesive with showing itself. The other PC settings are a bit useless since it appears to be only stupid crap for tablets and nothing really you want to have... the mouse and firefox are a bit bitchy, but that is okay considering that windows 8 is still in beta... the startmenu is cool tough it lacks overview with all the unnecesary apps displayed (finance, weather, internet explorer...) and where fast to be replaced with the things I had previously mounted on my desktop... search is unnecessarily hidden on the right systembar-startbar-mix when it just could appear on the standard startmenu... so my final verdict is that I will probably update my crappy PC to it but Windows 8 will never touch one of my notebooks... hopefully...



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thx1139 on 29 February 2012
Stefl1504 said:

Hummm first impression... I don't get it...
Opening Apps (Damn that term) does nothing other than a fancy effect and then showing me its icon in fullscreen? Great, just what I need :/ BTW... I am posting from my Windows 8 Test Version right now...

Edit: UUH! The new Task-Manager is cool! The most important Windows-Programm was made even better!

EDIT2: I LOVE IT WHILE I STILL DON'T GET ANY APP TO WORK IT ACCEPTS MY PS3 CONTROLLER WITHOUT PROBLEMS!!!

Edit3: Okay... I hate it again... not without Problems...

Edit4: Well after looking into it a little more is... it is still Windows, after removing all the XBox adds I was fine with it, wish it wasn't such a bitch and I don't really know why they 'removed' the start button when all you have to do now is to wait several seconds with your mouse on the right edge of the screen and tadaaaa~ there it is once again... also I don't get why they had to add a additional appbar on the left when they simply could add the apps to the taskbar, finally I hate all sorts of vanishing bars... I want them to be permanent or not to appear at all... ribbon still sucks but is made survivable because of not being so obsesive with showing itself. The other PC settings are a bit useless since it appears to be only stupid crap for tablets and nothing really you want to have... the mouse and firefox are a bit bitchy, but that is okay considering that windows 8 is still in beta... the startmenu is cool tough it lacks overview with all the unnecesary apps displayed (finance, weather, internet explorer...) and where fast to be replaced with the things I had previously mounted on my desktop... search is unnecessarily hidden on the right systembar-startbar-mix when it just could appear on the standard startmenu... so my final verdict is that I will probably update my crappy PC to it but Windows 8 will never touch one of my notebooks... hopefully...

You want search simply type from the start screen search just happens.   You looking for Control Panel for instance simply start typing "Control" and search pops up.  You want to remove pinned programs right click them and they become checked (you can check many) then use the bottom menu to unpin all the checked tiles.



Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.