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tweakboy

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All they did over the years is create ugly banners and ask us to use it as a windows 8 smart phone,,, if it was droid then fine, all is good....

besides this metro , once you shut it off I wanna know whats under the hood.

what is different ?

I got the CP Im scared to install it and mess up my rig, but would anyone trust it as their main rig machine to use cp upgrade from vis or 7 ya know.. thx
 
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I installed it on my laptop. (old one with c2 1.4ghz and 4gb ram).

Yes the metro thing is useless without touch screen, but overall it seems responsive and stable. boots surprisingly fast as well. It does have a weird issue with flash players (sometimes they just don't play. both on IE and chrome).

so far so good.

no games so far, just browsing, music, videos, PPT and some photoshop for work.

How long is this preview good for?
 
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I've been running it as my main OS since it came out. It's got bugs here and there. Metro froze up a few times on me and had to cold reboot, not sure what the reason for that was. IE10 is the most problematic for me though, a lot of pages are not compatible even with compatibility mode on.

Other than that nothing major on my self-made computer.
 
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tweakboy said:
Is there a way to DISABLE ,, METRO ,,,,,,,,,, I dont need banners in my way of production.
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For the love of god. IF YOU DON'T WANT METRO DON'T USE WINDOWS 8!!!!. All this bitching and moaning is getting very, very old.
 
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I don't like Metro apps, but I'm ok with the start screen. It isn't much different from every other Windows in that regard; just a different look. Metro apps OTOH can go to hell. I don't like mobile interfaces, even on mobile devices. I definitely don't want them on my desktop.
 
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The Redmond folks need to wake up and smell the coffee.
Windows 8 should offer at installation time, whether to show only the "Standard Desktop" (with a normal Start button on the lower left) or their current CP Metro interface.
Problem solved?
 
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I'd say so..and hope so! but in any case i will find a way to not start up in metro by default!

vailr said:
The Redmond folks need to wake up and smell the coffee.
Windows 8 should offer at installation time, whether to show only the "Standard Desktop" (with a normal Start button on the lower left) or their current CP Metro interface.
Problem solved?
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I have a question, should I install this as my main rig. I do DAW and have bunch of apps and plugins. I mean will apps work,, or are the bugs just little things..

Is it more faster and stable then Win7 cuz 7 hasnt crashed on me ONCE!!!!!!!!! I think Win8 is Win7 without a start menu and ugly banners.... gl
 
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Don't install 8 on a production PC lol. Not because it's Windows 8, but because it's not even a full release yet! Heck even a full windows release, it's best to wait until the first service pack.

Install it in a VM or on a spare machine.
 
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lxskllr said:
I don't like Metro apps, but I'm ok with the start screen. It isn't much different from every other Windows in that regard; just a different look. Metro apps OTOH can go to hell. I don't like mobile interfaces, even on mobile devices. I definitely don't want them on my desktop.
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i like the start screen...i can get behind the metro look but im a multitasker, so i dont see there being a real place for full-screen stuff to take over my desktop on a regular basis

now, if windows 8 convertible laptop/tablets are worth a damn i could see me wanting one. I hate paper, and want a tablet to replace paper completely. Im mostly there, but not exactly in the way id like it to be. I could see windows 8 *maybe* having a chance to finish that off.
 
tweakboy

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vailr said:
The Redmond folks need to wake up and smell the coffee.
Windows 8 should offer at installation time, whether to show only the "Standard Desktop" (with a normal Start button on the lower left) or their current CP Metro interface.
Problem solved?
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AMEN

But after that, what is the difference between 7 and Winblow8 ,,, its the same sh*T ,, they couldnt make a new skin the last 3 years...

They couldnt make a new animation, like the cool MAC one. Same desktop with metro..... ok they may add a stupid thing here and there but its the same! So if you not gonna use the METRO, dont bother upgrading to 8 ,,,,,,,,,If your going to use gay Metro, then God bless you and use it and enjoy it....

They did a test like a year ago. Tested ALL OSes,,, from Linux to XP to MAC OSX Vista and 7 ..

The tests showed Windows 7 is the most stable most secure OS there is. Its already great,,, what is 8 gonna do to make it greater ?
 
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Red Squirrel said:
Don't install 8 on a production PC lol. Not because it's Windows 8, but because it's not even a full release yet! Heck even a full windows release, it's best to wait until the first service pack.

Install it in a VM or on a spare machine.
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This.

I don't get why if you're happy with Windows 7 and things are working for you, you'd want to 'upgrade' to a pre-release build of any OS. You're just asking for trouble.

Try the consumer preview on a spare hard drive (If you know how to multi-boot on the same machine) or on a spare PC or VM. But I personally wouldn't replace Windows 7 that's currently working for you.

All the issues with Metro aside- I haven't found anything in the more sane part of the OS that are significantly better than Windows 7 as far as making any significant difference with a DAW or video editing setup. In fact, I'd be more concerned about possible driver issues depending on third party hardware. Overall, W8's explorer does feel a bit faster to me.

Classic case of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
 
lxskllr

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tweakboy said:
They did a test like a year ago. Tested ALL OSes,,, from Linux to XP to MAC OSX Vista and 7 ..

The tests showed Windows 7 is the most stable most secure OS there is. Its already great,,, what is 8 gonna do to make it greater ?
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Citation needed
 
vailr

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tweakboy said:
But after that, what is the difference between 7 and Winblow8
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Windows 8 is supposed to need less resources, since it's supposed to be able to run more "comfortably" on an Intel Atom CPU [netbooks], and similar low-voltage CPU's. Whereas netbooks of a couple years ago [pre Windows 7's release] couldn't run Vista very well, and needed to get "special dispensation" from Microsoft for manufacturers to install XP, which ran better on such devices compared with Vista.
Also: there'll be special Windows 8 builds equipped for running on ARM CPU's [touch screen tablet devices], which are even less capable (& power-hungry) than Intel Atom CPU's.
Normal desktop users will only notice some faster boot-up times, compared with earlier Windows versions. Probably.
 
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