I have yet to find a workflow in Win8 that takes me longer to execute than it did in win 7. Please take a look at the following. 10 minutes of reading will save you a lot more over the course of your computing. I hated it when I first started using it. I have had to eat some crow around the office... http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/...e/2012/03/08/getting-around-in-windows-8.aspx
It boots WAY faster (less than 2 seconds on the right machine) Its thread scheduler is faster and more flexible. It has connected standby capability (that's basically what happens when you "turn off" the display on your phone).
Have yet to see it on any machine... UEFI...SSD...yada...yada...yada.....nothing has booted in 2 seconds unless you are using Microsoft minutes to measure time.
My thoughts exactly. We have a browser that does all that shit, why would we want to download a ton of apps do do the same ?
frankly you can't get full featured apps nor performant apps in a browser. I dislike when people create stuff requiring the browser thinking its good enough (internal tools). no it's not.
Do you really think I haven't seen the boot demo....? I'm telling you have haven't built a machine or seen a notebook that can replicate the demo. Right up to the brand new XPS8500 I took out of a box this morning.
If I remember I'll get you machine config that will. I think my laptop will but I need to reinstall it with uefi mode enabled.
Drivers and most update files are downloaded while it installs or have been downloaded before. If you are talking just updates, it takes hours to get all the 7 updates, and windows 8 will be that way in time.
OK all you 8SmartGuys, I have a new computer with Win8 and it freekn just locks the fk up..no reason...if it is sitting or even in the middle of working...just locks up..restart and it is fine again for about 30/45 min..hell it will lock up with the screen saver running. When I say New, I mean like less than 10 hrs total on it.
Random lock ups or reboots can usually be traced to a shitty driver, bad memory or poorly manufactured motherboard. Mini-dump files and large memory dump files will usually give you some more clue as well. However you have to know how and which tools to use to read them. Check the event viewer and look under system to see what errors are being thrown if any.
UhHuh....yeah...well that would be great...suppose I would do all that if I knew what I was doing...about like you welding Ti... This thing has 2 HD's and the first one is measured in the Terrabites..and 64bit something or other...140watt preheated powersupply with some sort of supercooler..and 6gigs of ram...blah blah.blah...and locksthfkup. A quick google search turned up a ton of others with the same locksthfkup problem and MS saying "There is NO Issue with Our Wonderful New OS"
