Technology Windows 8

[masta247]

All of them are AMD dual core, that's a rather slow CPU but in that price you won't get anything better I think.

You can run almost all programs that worked on Windows 7. New apps designed to run in Metro will run there. Everything else will most probably run in desktop. The annoyance is that in most cases you have to go from desktop to metro to launch the program and go back to desktop to work with it.

The worst things about Windows 8 are inconvenience and decreased productivity (everything takes more time and more clicks). You might try to install a hack that will bring back the start menu and disable metro and effectively have Windows 7 with some tweaks.
It might screw with some features or future updates though.

 

[ARon]

You can launch any program you want from metro or desktop mode. For instance I have a chrome button on the metro part and its pinned to my taskbar on desktop mode, or I can just as easily have a shortcut on the desktop as well. If I launch it with metro it opens it in desktop mode which is instantaneous. It doesn't take more time or anything.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

I may just stick with the Samsung Series 3 Chromebook that has Chrome OS. I'll keep looking.

It's for basic use so Chrome OS will suffice. But, these Windwos 7/Windows 8 laptops have more local storage and functionality offline compared to Chrome OS.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

I've just seen the Asus Eee PC X101CH 10.1 inch Netbook for £200.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=317828027&pf_rd_i=468294

Jusdging by reviews, it seems good for the price but the keyboard and trackpad are annoying to use sometimes. It has a smaller screen to the other laptops and has Windows 7 Srarter. I think this is a single core machine.

 

[ARon]

I may just stick with the Samsung Series 3 Chromebook that has Chrome OS. I'll keep looking.

It's for basic use so Chrome OS will suffice. But, these Windwos 7/Windows 8 laptops have more local storage and functionality offline compared to Chrome OS.

Don't be afraid of Window 8. There really is nothing wrong with it.

 

[masta247]

Don't be afraid of Window 8. There really is nothing wrong with it.

Metro is. You can avoid it all you want but after all there are things you have to do in metro.
That is unless you hack it to bring back the start menu. That's when there's really nothing wrong with it, because then it's basically a tweaked Windows 7 (clearly engineers did pretty decent job at reducing the amount of resources the desktop layer requires to make it a smooth OS and someone made the unfortunate design choice of slapping metro over it after the core had been optimized).

The thing is that my (and many users') experience with Windows 8 has been constant fear of metro appearing out of nowhere, or having to do something (like finding advanced settings or the icon for uninstalling that one app) in Metro. While you can technically clutter your desktop with program icons pretending that everything's fine you can do it to some extent, place only the most used programs and only their "launch program" icon. For everything else, you have to search in metro and it's such a freaking pain in the ass if you use anything more than like 10 basic programs.
And Metro is nothing more and nothing less than a terribly designed UI replacing productivity with 'tiles', pretending to be another mini OS parallel to the proper Windows OS.

 

[masta247]

http://blog.gsmarena.com/samsung-exec-disparages-windows-8-says-its-no-better-than-windows-vista/

I find it peculiar that even companies that profit from selling Windows 8 devices give that OS lots of shit. No wonder, they are losing profits.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

I think it needs to 'grow' on people and they need to get used to the idea. Who knows, with the Windows Blue update, that could help improve things.

If they can give us real customisability back (like we had in previous versions of Windows), and keep it stable, fast, efficient (power, battery, RAM usage etc), and reliable - then I wouldn't mind upgrading to Windows 8.

 

[Casey]

8.1 needs to fix the fucking bugginess. I was lazy and upgraded my Windows 7 install rather than doing a clean install. So many fucking bugs. I've created a secondary user profile and moved everything over. Now it works better.

Still, there's lots of people that are going to simply upgrade their Win7 install and then have shit that doesn't work. That is not a good look.

 

[masta247]

Looks like Windows 8 won't really gain much traction, even though it's over 7 months since its launch and it comes preinstalled on almost everything:

 

[Pittsey]

Because it is fucking shit. Worse than Vista by far....!

I used it for 10 minutes and felt like a 90 year old man. I couldn't make it do anything I wanted it to. And.... My background is Electronics... So I am not a noob. Although not a Jedi like Masta, either.

 

[masta247]

I had it installed to try it out, I also think it's shit. I could figure it out, but working with it is really annoying.

I'm glad that people aren't using it - mainly because for Microsoft only sales matter. If something doesn't sell, they might start rethinking their strategies. Even if the idea of connecting PCs with tablets wasn't bad, the implementation is terrible.

 

[Pittsey]

I only fiddled for 2 minutes. Being 2013 and technology being so easy. 2 minutes is my concentration limit.