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asian_XL
08-11-2012, 01:25 AM
Who's using it?
Have been running it on my N470 atom nettop in the past 2 days, it's so much smoother and somehow the battery life is better than with WinXP installed. Loading photoshop and newer apps are still slow, but very satisfied with the system speed.

The metro UI is definitely growing on me, but a device with touch screen and multi touch will benefit much more. I can't wait until to test it on a desktop with faster speed

twitchyzero
08-11-2012, 01:32 AM
Have been running it on my N470 atom nettop...Loading photoshop and newer apps are still slow

i'm sure that's limited by the amount of ram in your nettop...not so much the OS

I'll likely skip Win8 altogether since they wont let you disable metro...deal breaker for desktop users. A shame because there's a nice overhaul under the hood..

I think there's lots of potential on tablets/phone/next xbox and I hope they integrate all that seamlessly

FerrariEnzo
08-11-2012, 06:37 AM
MS will release a good OS, then a bad OS, then a good one again... look at the past MS OS's.. :lawl:

asian_XL
08-11-2012, 07:56 AM
i'm sure that's limited by the amount of ram in your nettop...not so much the OS

I'll likely skip Win8 altogether since they wont let you disable metro...deal breaker for desktop users.

not sure about RTM, I disabled metro in the developer preview copy and this is what it looks like
http://cdn-static.zdnet.com/i/story/60/52/018767/03-03-2012-15-24-16.jpg

lilaznviper
08-11-2012, 08:13 AM
I thought they disabled that function on the new releases so your stuck with the metro UI

!MiKrofT
08-11-2012, 11:04 AM
Seems detrimental to force everyone to use the metroui.