I'm thinking about upgrade but to be honest, I'm waiting for a "sold" moment where I'll be like - okay I'm in.
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I was using Consumer Preview (I believe the build was 8250, but can't recall for sure). |
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On a tablet or touchscreen, it would be great. On a regular desktop, Metro is completely superfluous. It doesn't really make anything more convenient at all. And if you're using an app that isn't written for Windows 8, you have to drop out of Metro to desktop anyway. |
I'm going to get a tablet, I just need to wait on the Windows 8 Pro systems to ship next month. I still have a thing for the ASUS TaiChi.
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Lenovo W520, i7, 16GB RAM, SSD :D |
Here's something interesting.
All of you guys that are saying it's faster than Win 7 are running Intel-based platforms, mostly I7, with quite a bit of RAM. Are you running 64 or 32-bit? I only had a copy of 32-bit Windows 7 Enterprise to test with so I was running 32-bit Windows 8 consumer preview on an AMD Athlon dualcore platform with only 4GB of RAM. Windows 7 was definitely faster by a small margin. |
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32-bit Office 2010 & 2013 Pro |
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I LOVE the desktop search functionality. Much better than a start menu (or any menu, for that matter). It is so nice to be able to start typing and it lists your apps. The Desktop drives me nuts. I do not like having a Start screen and a Desktop. I don't get why it was done that way; especially since you cannot "skin" your OS to one or the other, exclusively. At least is is easy to switch: hit Windows key or click/swipe in left corner. |
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Win8 also uses EUFI instead of BIOS on EUFI capable mobos. If you have a EUFI supported mobo, that alone will reduce boot time by quite a bit. EUFI: http://gcn.com/articles/2012/10/31/s...ello-uefi.aspx |
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That's the opposite of my experience actually. Even after going into the user controls and removing the mandatory login, etc., the off-to-usable time on Windows 7 is about 10% less. |
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