Windows 8

[cHodAX]

Used a Surface touchscreen PC today in Comet, it was a fecking great experience. Win8 works so bloody well with touchscreen. An intel i3 cpu doesn't hurt matters either, it was blisteringly fast with media stuff and playing with photos. Was a Toshiba 23-inch (LX835) All-in-One, very nice bit of kit for £700, at £500 it would be fucking awesome. Yum, they do an i5 and i7 version too with 16gb of memory!

 

[soze]

One of my first jobs on Monday is setting up one a Lenovo IdeaCentre A720 they are phenomenal and it will be the first one I put Windows 8 on. You can slide them up and have the monitor like a standard monitor. Or slide it forward and it touches the desk at a 45 degree angle. The UI on that should be great then when i want to do emails ect just slide it up and go back to keyboard and mouse

 

[cHodAX]

One of my first jobs on Monday is setting up one a Lenovo IdeaCentre A720 they are phenomenal and it will be the first one I put Windows 8 on. You can slide them up and have the monitor like a standard monitor. Or slide it forward and it touches the desk at a 45 degree angle. The UI on that should be great then when i want to do emails ect just slide it up and go back to keyboard and mouse

Lovely, let me know how you get on matey, I have a couple of friends interested in the Lenovo.

 

[SheepCow]

Right, initial opinions:

• There's no obvious way to close Metro Applications other than a good old Alt-F4 which I find bloody strange. However if they FOAD in the background like most smartphone apps then this is a non-issue.

Yar, Windows closes them automagically after a while of not using them / when the memory is needed etc

 

[soze]

Lovely, let me know how you get on matey, I have a couple of friends interested in the Lenovo.

The Lenovo is bullet proof it was just a shame they are having major issues with the support site so getting drivers was awkward. The machine is smooth as fuck and I will be sorry when it gets claimed. The machine is going to a convention later in the week and i think its the perfect machine it is very fast quiet and it looks great. The Lenovo rep even sent it out with a SSD I struggled with Windows 8 a bit like in the desktop how to you get the start button up? With a mouse you go bottom left and it pops up. But how do you do it with a touch screen. Same with top left for open Apps?

But with the Lenovo build quality being so high I would have no hesitation recommending one.

 

[cHodAX]

Swipe in from the right of the screen for the Start button iirc.

 

[DaGaffer]

Are there any multi-user licences available for Win8? When I upgraded to 7 I bought a 3 PC licence that upgraded my two XP machines and my main Vista PC. Doesn't seem to be a similar option this time around unless I'm missing something.

I'm still in two minds about upgrading at all (without touchscreens I'm just paying for faster boot times and a new UI learning curve by the looks of things), but if I do I'd rather upgrade everything.

 

[MYstIC G]

Are there any multi-user licences available for Win8? When I upgraded to 7 I bought a 3 PC licence that upgraded my two XP machines and my main Vista PC. Doesn't seem to be a similar option this time around unless I'm missing something.

I'm still in two minds about upgrading at all (without touchscreens I'm just paying for faster boot times and a new UI learning curve by the looks of things), but if I do I'd rather upgrade everything.

Not that I've seen (not to say they won't launch one in the future). You are right about the desktops, it is a new UI and faster booting. The UI hasn't bothered me enough to make me want to revert to Windows 7 though.

 

[Scouse]

Saw it running on a mate's laptop yesterday.

Looks great for the average user. Looks a nightmare for the systems administrator tho tbfh.

 

[Cyradix]

Explaining it to parents and other older relatives... that's a nightmare!!

 

[KevinUK]

Yar, Windows closes them automagically after a while of not using them / when the memory is needed etc

Swiping from the top closes a Metro app.

 

[SheepCow]

Swiping from the top closes a Metro app.

Is that the same as click and drag the top to the bottom of the screen?