04-11-2013, 07:10 PM | #31 | |
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04-11-2013, 08:45 PM | #32 |
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What Can I say.... Windows 8 is good ...have it on two computers but I use Stardock's Start 8 to make my computer more like Win 7. However, the start up and shutdown is much faster on my machines than windows 7. http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/
Tablets: Now making my Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 my main work tablets. I bike 15 to 30km a day between workplaces and the tablet beats the small notebook I had for formfactor and weight. Yes I have a bluetooth keyboard that works fine with both Nexus computers and my droid phone. 85 percent of my work can be done by tablet and I only need my notebooks when I print something out in the morning before my workdays. Me thinks the tablet is not quite there but the DAY is approaching every week. |
04-11-2013, 09:49 PM | #33 |
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Agreed.
In my observation, it's not just the fast boot. I just timed launch of notoriously slow Libre Writer on my decidedly low-end* home-built PC. Eight seconds from launch, andl I can type in the work processor window. And "Load Libre Office at system startup" is unchecked. And, if reloading after having closed Libre many minutes ago, without having rebooted, it loads in less than a second. Maybe someone will say this has little to do with Windows 8. But I never had nearly so fast and stable a PC as this before. And after daily use for 5+ months, it hasn't slowed. As for the user interface changes, to me, they are trivial. I put in a Start Menu by right-clicking on the desktop toolbar, as explained in many web articles, but don't use it much. Learning curve? A little, but it's outweighed by the ease of secure-by-default. Avast? Ad-Aware? No more of that stuff unless you like a complicated life. Microsoft took a risk in making booting first into tile world the default and, as explained in the OP, they are paying a price. I'm not saying the tiles and touch-friendly features do me any good -- rather, they don't majorly annoy. YMMV. Nobody knows if touch-friendliness, and their software store, will pay off for Microsoft in the long run. Not my problem. _________________________ * Intel G2120 processor, 8 GB DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666), no video card, conventional hard drive Last edited by SteveEisenberg; 04-11-2013 at 09:55 PM. |
04-11-2013, 11:54 PM | #34 | |
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04-12-2013, 12:22 AM | #35 |
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Windows 8 does have issues, but it isn't the lemon that people make it out to be. As far as I can tell: it's fast, it's stable, and it has a bunch of nice features. People who hate the Start Screen can either obtain a third-party Start Menu or they can learn to treat the Start Screen as a Start Menu that arranges things spatially rather than hierarchically. Similarly, very few people are going to care about the restrictions placed on 3rd party "Metro" applications. None of this should hurt PC sales, especially when you factor in the continued availability of Windows 7. (That being said, it probably isn't providing people with a compelling reason to upgrade their PC.)
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04-12-2013, 01:32 AM | #36 |
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Hmm... What counts as a PC for these surveys?
I haven't bought a whole PC, all at one time, for many years (over a decade). I have bought the parts for a great many PCs in that time, on a piece by piece bases. The components end up migrating through three or four PCs that remain active all the time. Right now my two main computers have 8 core CPUs and this one has 32GB of RAM. But, I haven't purchased a PC in over a decade. Luck; Ken |
04-12-2013, 02:05 AM | #37 | |
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04-12-2013, 02:11 AM | #38 | |
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04-12-2013, 04:40 AM | #39 |
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04-12-2013, 08:08 AM | #40 | |
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Existing Windows applications run the same way it always has, without the loss of features or a new UI paradigm being forced upon you. Developers are also free to develop conventional desktop software for Windows 8, so you can expect to see new software that runs in your desired UI. |
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04-12-2013, 08:19 AM | #41 | |
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Granted, that may have something to do with tablet applications being virtually useless. I can't even find a decent text editor, never mind a decent word processor. Even the supposed strong points of tablets, like software used for Internet connectivity (web browsers, email clients, and the like), are unbelievably weak. Anything with a specialist bent is virtually non-existent. Thankfully I bought my tablet as an ereader for PDFs. It is usually adequate for displaying static pages of text. |
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04-12-2013, 08:59 AM | #42 |
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Windows 8 doesn't let you have multiple windows open? that's a non-starter for me. I currently have 4 windows open on 2 monitors: Windows Eplorer, a Word document, a Notepad ++ document, and my Firefox browser. I sometimes have more, sometimes less, but rarely only one.
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04-12-2013, 09:00 AM | #43 |
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For the past number of upgrades with Windows software, the OS that follows a successful OS always has trouble with the masses. I am sure that this has been brought up before, so it is nothing new. I'll give you examples of what I am talking about. Windows 98 Millennium, Windows Vista, and now Windows 8. These three OS followed very successful iterations of the Windows OS and had a hard time with the public. The next version of the software has tended to be more successful whether, in reality, it was any better remains to be seen.
Like a previous poster said, a lot of PC users today just upgrade the parts of their present PCs and go from there. If one needs a new video card, just get one. Especially since the CPUs have not had a real great amount of changes as they once did. |
04-12-2013, 09:05 AM | #44 | |
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04-12-2013, 09:30 AM | #45 |
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