Buggy has hell. Can't edited my post, start new paragraphs, and had to switch over to my iPod to delete the double post. WTF!!!!!!

TD3 said:

Disaster!!! DO NOT purchase this shit! Windows 8 is confusing, tedious, schizophrenic, and about all ifefficient.Sorry for the delay of my review the first HP Ultrabook has some internet issues had to return it for a new, which I recieved today. Even so I used it for 7 days and this is my overview on a OS that makes no sense what-so-ever.As you know there is no starter button, no ability to have multiple tabs open in "Metro" nor can you open, close, or minimize windows. I hated the touchscreen after 48 hours and hurried to purchase a Microsoft Touch Mouse, it made things a lot easier and quicker (since you have to go through mindless step to us this OS) because I found it was hard to swtich back and forth between the , traditional desktop and "Metro", to close out apps/ windows/tabs, or to get the "Charms Bar" to appear. It's all kinda in the wrist and I be damn not having a touchscreen for a couple of days I found I had to swipe the screen a couple of time to switch between all of these "bars". I still haven't gotten use to right clicking to bring up the taskbar which allows you to add to favorites, backtrack, close, open, or foward to another page, in Metro. Another thing I found it's best to close apps/tabs out because I swear I've touch the screen or used the mouse and apps/tabs that I've used previously have popped up out of know where. I read some where those apps or open tabs ( I haven't figured out which does what because sometimes the can do the same operations and sometimes they can't) after 5/8 seconds but I haven't found that to be true. The treatment of the desktop as an app is a joke; I found most of the apps to be useless. Say for example you downloaded Audacity, yes you can pin a button to the "Metro" but for Audacity to open its kick back to the traditional desktop. Adobe Flash is embedded in a way that apps (such as Google App) not apart of Metro eco-system desktop are switch back to the traditional Windows desktop to watch a video. When you try to look at a video in Metro via the Google App, Adobe tells you you must update their software. When you switch over to their website they give you a list of convoluted steps you must go through to get video to work within Windows OS 8 Metro. Have I confused the hell out of you, welcome to the fucking club. I'm still figuring out what the "Charm Bar" does, I found it confusing. I'm still messing with this piece of shit but I can tell you my law firm has decided to skip this OS and stay with Windows 7. I feel like I did when I first learned how to use Windows 95, talk about a fish out of water. I'll have to learn this like I did that OS, by click around and seeing what works and what doesn't and/or find steps that make using it must easier and quicker. I haven't tried the Windows tablet (RT) but this OS is pretty much useless on a desktop. Windows store doesn't have a lot of apps yet but Im surprised that most of them are more than a buck, I don't think that's a wise. LInux still has an opportunity to make inroads, I hope Unbuntu and Mint are taking note. And no I wasn't able to open a Linux Live using a flashdrive. Since this is a ultrabook I don't have a disc player.

Damn yo! I guess I'll wait for a while, until the kinks are worked out...... I was planning on getting a new laptop sometime early next year with 8 on it......kinda scared to now.....

TD3 said:

Disaster!!! DO NOT purchase this shit! Windows 8 is confusing, tedious, schizophrenic, and about all ifefficient.Sorry for the delay of my review the first HP Ultrabook has some internet issues had to return it for a new, which I recieved today. Even so I used it for 7 days and this is my overview on a OS that makes no sense what-so-ever.As you know there is no starter button, no ability to have multiple tabs open in "Metro" nor can you open, close, or minimize windows. I hated the touchscreen after 48 hours and hurried to purchase a Microsoft Touch Mouse, it made things a lot easier and quicker (since you have to go through mindless step to us this OS) because I found it was hard to swtich back and forth between the , traditional desktop and "Metro", to close out apps/ windows/tabs, or to get the "Charms Bar" to appear. It's all kinda in the wrist and I be damn not having a touchscreen for a couple of days I found I had to swipe the screen a couple of time to switch between all of these "bars". I still haven't gotten use to right clicking to bring up the taskbar which allows you to add to favorites, backtrack, close, open, or foward to another page, in Metro. Another thing I found it's best to close apps/tabs out because I swear I've touch the screen or used the mouse and apps/tabs that I've used previously have popped up out of know where. I read some where those apps or open tabs ( I haven't figured out which does what because sometimes the can do the same operations and sometimes they can't) after 5/8 seconds but I haven't found that to be true. The treatment of the desktop as an app is a joke; I found most of the apps to be useless. Say for example you downloaded Audacity, yes you can pin a button to the "Metro" but for Audacity to open its kick back to the traditional desktop. Adobe Flash is embedded in a way that apps (such as Google App) not apart of Metro eco-system desktop are switch back to the traditional Windows desktop to watch a video. When you try to look at a video in Metro via the Google App, Adobe tells you you must update their software. When you switch over to their website they give you a list of convoluted steps you must go through to get video to work within Windows OS 8 Metro. Have I confused the hell out of you, welcome to the fucking club. I'm still figuring out what the "Charm Bar" does, I found it confusing. I'm still messing with this piece of shit but I can tell you my law firm has decided to skip this OS and stay with Windows 7. I feel like I did when I first learned how to use Windows 95, talk about a fish out of water. I'll have to learn this like I did that OS, by click around and seeing what works and what doesn't and/or find steps that make using it must easier and quicker. I haven't tried the Windows tablet (RT) but this OS is pretty much useless on a desktop. Windows store doesn't have a lot of apps yet but Im surprised that most of them are more than a buck, I don't think that's a wise. LInux still has an opportunity to make inroads, I hope Unbuntu and Mint are taking note. And no I wasn't able to open a Linux Live using a flashdrive. Since this is a ultrabook I don't have a disc player.

well, I want a new desk PC (for mid-2013, with any luck), and it HAS to be Win8 (not truly ready to switch to Apple )

so I'll take my chances, I know that getting used to Win8 will be a hell of an experience, but I'm ready for the challenge

but yeah, the loss of the starter button is painful, do you image a SW film without lightsabers? can you imagine Windows without the starter button? damn

Tittypants said:

TD3 said:

Disaster!!! DO NOT purchase this shit! Windows 8 is confusing, tedious, schizophrenic, and about all inefficient.Sorry for the delay of my review the first HP Ultra-book has some internet issues had to return it for a new, which I received today. Even so I used it for 7 days and this is my overview on an OS that makes no sense what-so-ever.As you know there is no starter button, no ability to have multiple tabs open in "Metro" nor can you open, close, or minimize windows. I hated the touchscreen after 48 hours and hurried to purchase a Microsoft Touch Mouse, it made things a lot easier and quicker (since you have to go through mindless step to us this OS) because I found it was hard to switch back and forth between the , traditional desktop and "Metro", to close out apps/windows/tabs, or to get the "Charms Bar" to appear. It's all kinda in the wrist and I be damn not having a touchscreen for a couple of days I found I had to swipe the screen a couple of time to switch between all of these "bars". I still haven't gotten use to right clicking to bring up the task-bar which allows you to add to favorites, backtrack, close, open, or forward to another page, in Metro. Another thing I found its best to close apps/tabs out because I swear I've touch the screen or used the mouse and apps/tabs that I've used previously have popped up out of know where. I read some where those apps or open tabs ( I haven't figured out which does what because sometimes the can do the same operations and sometimes they can't) after 5/8 seconds but I haven't found that to be true. The treatment of the desktop as an app is a joke; I found most of the apps to be useless. Say for example you downloaded Audacity, yes you can pin a button to the "Metro" but for Audacity to open its kick back to the traditional desktop. Adobe Flash is embedded in a way that apps (such as Google App) not apart of Metro eco-system desktop are switch back to the traditional Windows desktop to watch a video. When you try to look at a video in Metro via the Google App, Adobe tells you must update their software. When you switch over to their website they give you a list of convoluted steps you must go through to get video to work within Windows OS 8 Metro. Have I confused the hell out of you, welcome to the fucking club? I'm still figuring out what the "Charm Bar" does, I found it confusing. I'm still messing with this piece of shit but I can tell you my law firm has decided to skip this OS and stay with Windows 7. I feel like I did when I first learned how to use Windows 95, talk about a fish out of water. I'll have to learn this like I did that OS, by click around and seeing what works and what doesn't and/or find steps that make using it must easier and quicker. I haven't tried the Windows tablet (RT) but this OS is pretty much useless on a desktop. Windows store doesn't have a lot of apps yet but Im surprised that most of them are more than a buck, I don't think that's a wise. LInux still has an opportunity to make inroads, I hope Ubuntu and Mint are taking note. And no I wasn't able to open a Linux Live using a flash drive. Since this is an ultra-book I don't have a disc player.

Damn yo! I guess I'll wait for a while, until the kinks are worked out...... I was planning on getting a new laptop sometime early next year with 8 on it......kinda scared to now.....

I fear this is another paper weight OS system like Vista is and was. Steven Sinofsky was fired today and he should've been, this is some bullshit. I'd really be pissed if I had purchased an expensive notebook. I' post some YouTube videos on Win OS 8 basics very soon, but at some point I'm going to put Windows 7 or their next OS on this machine. Junk. That's why the bastards at Microsoft disable the ability to use Linux distros, they knew this mess was junk and/or there would be a backlash. I've been told people in Redmond have gotten so desperate they've taken to writing fake stories touting Win's 8. around the computer/geek/tech sites. Amazing.

It's ugly as hell, but thank god they didn't go with that silly ass skuemorphism nonsense Apple employed in OS-X moutain lion (and previous OSs).

I've played with it only briefly, and did not care for it, but I like the "Windows interface" more than Windows 7. It looks cleaner, and that's good.

My students hate it.

But, I'll say this. All of the problems I'm seeing so far with it are easily fixed. The next version is probably going to border on shit hot if they can make it less ugly.

TD3 said:

imago said:It's ugly as hell, but thank god they didn't go with that silly ass skuemorphism nonsense Apple employed in OS-X moutain lion (and previous OSs). I've played with it only briefly, and did not care for it, but I like the "Windows interface" more than Windows 7. It looks cleaner, and that's good. My students hate it. But, I'll say this. All of the problems I'm seeing so far with it are easily fixed. The next version is probably going to border on shit hot if they can make it less ugly. As in getting rid of "Metro" and the Charm Bar for starters? Hey give me my starter button back. I don't like Metro desktop or whatever the hell they are calling their desktop these days, its hectic.

http://youtu.be/CfODwWeP9MI

I think it's promising, and it's great they didn't just go out and copy Apple, so we get true product differentiation.

However, it's has too many odd things about it.

I'll need to get a pc and put it on a pc.

I want to look at the registry.

I *hate* the Microsoft windows registry. It's really time to just get rid of that nonsense.

I always try to wait for patches & glitches to be fixed before I go for stuff like that. Plus, it's not like I have the $ for it right now anyway

[Edited 11/13/12 19:23pm]

TD3 said:

[img:$uid]http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j220/gowes/image.jpg[/img:$uid] Here's the crap. Oh, those guys aka, razethew0rld are my go to guys.

can you even play a videogame with that shit? (I mean with that shitty OS)

[Edited 11/13/12 19:47pm]

TD3 said:

[img:$uid]http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j220/gowes/image.jpg[/img:$uid] Here's the crap. Oh, those guys aka, razethew0rld are my go to guys.

Is that a silhouette of Bill Maher in the screen?

[Edited 11/14/12 9:30am]

TD3 said:

:nod:Yep, my man was watching his show. This room is suppose to be my woman cave yet folks come in here missing with me. Damn, sista can't have nothing to herself, he has the whole damn lowerlevel but yet his in my little room. WTF!!!

Okay.

[Edited 11/14/12 9:31am]

TD3 said:

JoeTyler... I'm not a gamer at all so I could say. Microsoft has named everything in the music tile X-Box Music so I'm going to assume the game tile X-Box Games. I'm not turning on that "tile" function, it just asked me if Microsoft could use my microphnone and camera, for what! OH, hell naw.

for real? that sounds buggy or something?

I hate when an OS says "can I use this or that" -> NO

Was helping my niece set up her new laptop this weekend and didn't find it very user friendly.

I had no freaking clue how to do anything at first.

Funny I'm hearing good things about the Windows 8 phone, but yet to hear anything great about Windows 8, I'm scared I'm going to be throwing a computer out the window.

Can Windows 8 be used to make beats? Can proud users of FL Studio and/or Reason be able to install their favorite music production software at least?

DAW's can be used.(at this time):

- Ableton Live 8

- Adobe Audition

- Audacity

- Avid Media Composer

- Avid Pro Tools

- Native Instruments Komplete

- Propellerhead Reason

- Cakewalk Sonar 8 Producer

- Cakewalk Sonar X1 and X2

- Sony Sound Force Pro 10

- Sony Vegas pro 11 and 12

- Steinberg Cubase 6.5

TD3 said:

DAW's can be used.(at this time):

- Ableton Live 8

- Adobe Audition

- Audacity

- Avid Media Composer

- Avid Pro Tools

- Native Instruments Komplete

- Propellerhead Reason

- Cakewalk Sonar 8 Producer

- Cakewalk Sonar X1 and X2

- Sony Sound Force Pro 10

- Sony Vegas pro 11 and 12

- Steinberg Cubase 6.5

I can see now that all of the FL Studio users are going to stay their asses with Windows 7 under further notice.