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Windows 8 worth it?

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It's as if they see apples encroaching market share as a sign to jump ship from a mouse and keyboard centered model to touchscreen, it doth baffles mee !!
And yeah i know the desktop is still there and i imagine you could easily turn off the tiles feature but when most people who aren't tech literate cant even find the run command when you tell them where it is or how to search for it using the windows search feature, it really puts doubt into my mind as to the effectiveness of 8.
I personally might upgrade to it if i ever find a powerful tablet, but otherwise no.
 
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I finally found a use for my old 1024x768 monitor.....Metro UI :) Added that to the side of my standard 1080p and I have been loving windows 8 release preview. Smooth and fast with my setup. Only 1 issue so far with games and that's Back to the future not launching but I'm sure I can sort it.

Edit - Company Of Heroes never played smoothly on Windows 7 for me on various installs? I'm now playing it fully maxed DX10 with full AA and smooth as a peach. I'm really enjoying this OS so far :)
 
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i always wait about 6-9 months before switching to a new OS it give time to get some bug & security fix or a SP1

But not sure ill switch for Windows 8 that quick this time i may wait a full year or wait for the next windows after that , idk ill have to wait & see how it goes (win8) over time
 
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Minimum res for 8 is 1366x768.

minimum rez is 1024x768

"Microsoft is planning for tablets that use both the 1024x768 and 1366x768 resolutions common in earlier and lower-end tablets as well as the high-DPI screens that are being (and will be) ushered in by the new iPad"

1366x768 is only if you want the snap thingy, thats what ive read so take with a truck of salt.
 

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Edit - Company Of Heroes never played smoothly on Windows 7 for me on various installs? I'm now playing it fully maxed DX10 with full AA and smooth as a peach. I'm really enjoying this OS so far :)

DX10 always ran like ass for me in that game, so i always maxed DX9 instead.
 
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Anyone managed to get this damn thing (Win8 64bit) working in VMWare Player? Whatever i do, i can't make it work. It just spits out some unexepcted error and that's it. Sucks.

what version of vmware player do you have?
 

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Anyone managed to get this damn thing (Win8 64bit) working in VMWare Player? Whatever i do, i can't make it work. It just spits out some unexepcted error and that's it. Sucks.

Why would you use VMWare player? Why not just make a partition on a drive and install it properly? Its not like mac or something where theres a lot of complications.... unless you have a specific reason
 

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well when u disable their "Metro UI" or what u will call it, it looks the same as Windows 7.

but some of the first screens i saw of Windows 8 before the "Metro UI" was where the taskbar was split into like 3 and i was like cool if Windows 8 would look like that i will buy it for sure but that changed fast so basic windows 7 and i was like oki a updated Windows 7 only how much new will that bring? maybe more stability for explorer and memory tweaking and so on would be nice but i kinda doubt bcs it's ms.

You can't disable Metro and bring back the start menu starting with the Consumer Preview and newer.

The start screen is a productivity nightmare. Even shutting down is a PITA. I'm all for Metro being the default option, but power users need to be able to disable it entirely.

So far, we can't. We are forced to use at least the new Start screen.
 
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Personally wont change for quite sometime maybe 1 year or so, the thing that might make me move to Windows 8 is games.
If Microsoft could just listen to people rumbling about wanting to disable the Metro UI, and go ahead and give an option that comes with classic start button it would be nice, even tho the desktop on Windows 8 does not look as good as Windows 7/Vista, but with an option for classic start button on it would make very many people to consider moving to it despite it falling shot on looks.

Microsoft should make the setup detect the peripherals attached to the machine/device detect and determine whether the machine/device is a tablet or Laptop/Desktop so it can recommend the type of interface, eg Options are

When installing

I would like this option 1

1: When the Windows 8 installation is at the final stage of installation right before setting up a computer name and user name, there should be one menu before that asking a Laptop/Desktop user a question like this:

Q: Which type of user interface would you prefer?
A: Metro UI Without Start Button
B: Classic Style Windows With Start Button but Without Metro UI
After installation there is still an option in the control panel for the user to switch to whichever interface any time they'd want to change.

2: When the Windows 8 is installed it determines the type of machine/device/hardware and chooses the interface appropriately without asking,
A: If tablet, automatically it chooses Metro UI
B: If desktop/laptop automatically it chooses Classic Style Windows With Start Button but Without Metro UI
After installation there is still an option in the control panel for the user to switch to whichever interface any time they'd want to change.

Just my thoughts, too bad Microsoft doesn't listen to free advice they have to pay you to listen to you, so i guess this will never happen
 
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Personally wont change for quite sometime maybe 1 year or so, the thing that might make me move to Windows 8 is games.
If Microsoft could just listen to people rumbling about wanting to disable the Metro UI, and go ahead and give an option that comes with classic start button it would be nice, even tho the desktop on Windows 8 does not look as good as Windows 7/Vista, but with an option for classic start button on it would make very many people to consider moving to it despite it falling shot on looks.

Microsoft should make the setup detect the peripherals attached to the machine/device detect and determine whether the machine/device is a tablet or Laptop/Desktop so it can recommend the type of interface, eg Options are

When installing

I would like this option 1

1: When the Windows 8 installation is at the final stage of installation right before setting up a computer name and user name, there should be one menu before that asking a Laptop/Desktop user a question like this:

Q: Which type of user interface would you prefer?
A: Metro UI Without Start Button
B: Classic Style Windows With Start Button but Without Metro UI
After installation there is still an option in the control panel for the user to switch to whichever interface any time they'd want to change.

2: When the Windows 8 is installed it determines the type of machine/device/hardware and chooses the interface appropriately without asking,
A: If tablet, automatically it chooses Metro UI
B: If desktop/laptop automatically it chooses Classic Style Windows With Start Button but Without Metro UI
After installation there is still an option in the control panel for the user to switch to whichever interface any time they'd want to change.

Just my thoughts, too bad Microsoft doesn't listen to free advice they have to pay you to listen to you, so i guess this will never happen

and so many people on other forums have issues with having options like that.... I think your solution is excellent.
 
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Why would you use VMWare player? Why not just make a partition on a drive and install it properly? Its not like mac or something where theres a lot of complications.... unless you have a specific reason

VM is easier to trash if you're tired of it and you don't have a small partition just hangin there that you can barely use. Also you run into other boot issues as well... it's more of a PITA....

get sick of 8, trash the vm and not worry about boot options/recovery (if something fucks up) and you can port it to another machine.... can't do it with a regular partition....
 

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If VMWare isn't working right (VMWare Workstation 8 worked fine for Win8,) I would give VirtualBox a try.
 
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