Joe Canadian Posted October 31, 2012 Member ID: 822 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 87 Topic Count: 317 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5477 Content Per Day: 0.97 Reputation: 5025 Achievement Points: 42632 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 20 Joined: 12/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 25, 2023 Birthday: 03/01/1967 Posted October 31, 2012 Just wondering how many of you have switched to windows 8 and whether its worth the investment or not.... Cheers Joe Awards
Twinkie 13 Posted October 31, 2012 Member ID: 3003 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 26 Topic Count: 36 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 437 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 370 Achievement Points: 3716 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/21/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: 18 hours ago Birthday: 03/17/1979 Device: Windows Posted October 31, 2012 I have not switched. I played around with it on display computers at Best Buy. If you have a touch screen device it works great but for a mouse the gestures seem strange to use. hxtr and coolmd 2 Awards
Yop Posted October 31, 2012 Member ID: 1719 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 18 Topic Count: 71 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1982 Content Per Day: 0.37 Reputation: 518 Achievement Points: 12060 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/21/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 29 Birthday: 04/03/1981 Device: Windows Posted October 31, 2012 I have not switched. I played around with it on display computers at Best Buy. If you have a touch screen device it works great but for a mouse the gestures seem strange to use. +1 coolmd and hxtr 2 Awards
Sitting-Duc Posted October 31, 2012 Member ID: 561 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 85 Topic Count: 502 Topics Per Day: 0.09 Content Count: 5336 Content Per Day: 0.94 Reputation: 4612 Achievement Points: 41356 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 29 Joined: 10/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 23 hours ago Birthday: 04/06/1992 Device: Windows Posted October 31, 2012 I am currently using Windows 8 Pro and am loving it! The display takes a bit to get used to but there are some amazing features, the desktop feels weird without the classic start menu but you soon get used to the new one. Overall I find it easy to use and much much quicker. I got it for free however.. . JohnnyQuest, ANGUS, coolmd and 2 others 5 Awards
BUDMAN Posted October 31, 2012 Member ID: 800 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 152 Topic Count: 139 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 7103 Content Per Day: 1.26 Reputation: 4640 Achievement Points: 60416 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 11/27/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 42 minutes ago Birthday: 05/29/1957 Device: Windows Posted October 31, 2012 Hows the game play with windows 8 ??? hxtr 1 Awards
Marauder-CDN Posted October 31, 2012 Member ID: 1777 Group: ++ COD5 Admin Followers: 30 Topic Count: 50 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 414 Content Per Day: 0.08 Reputation: 213 Achievement Points: 2989 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/09/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 28 Device: Windows Posted October 31, 2012 I played with the pre release and wasn't overly impressed..but I am wondering about after being able to get it cheap http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msca/en_CA/pdp/productID.255156900?siteID=SRi0yYDlqd0-RoT79VRTAd0Uk8KjAO111Q Awards
Evil-Monkey Posted October 31, 2012 Member ID: 221 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 11 Topic Count: 85 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1865 Content Per Day: 0.33 Reputation: 751 Achievement Points: 12313 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17 Birthday: 06/10/1967 Device: iPhone Posted October 31, 2012 from the reveiws i have read it would be great for a touch screen applications but for gamers stick with win 7 im waiting to see if any the reviews change i have a copy but havent tried it yet Awards
Astronomer Posted November 1, 2012 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Posted November 1, 2012 (edited) Get a free program called "Classic Shell" http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/ for Windows 8. Boot into the desktop, have a Start menu, and you get a much improved, faster Windows 7 experience, and you don't have to deal with the tablet interface if you don't want to. I have it on my laptop and with Windows 8 under the hood, it's excellent. I plan on installing COD-WAW on it over the weekend, seeing as it has an nVidia graphics chip. If all goes well, I may migrate my Windows 7 gaming rig over to it in a few months. I've had it on the laptop since the end of August (MSDN member), and I really like it with Classic Shell. More details on Classic Shell here: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/45430/Classic-Shell Edited November 1, 2012 by Astronomer hxtr and ANGUS 2 Awards
X-RayXI Posted December 12, 2012 Member ID: 133 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 77 Topic Count: 602 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 6896 Content Per Day: 1.20 Reputation: 1376 Achievement Points: 44161 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Tuesday at 10:59 AM Birthday: 12/12/1971 Device: Windows Posted December 12, 2012 http://www.techspot.com/review/561-windows8-vs-windows7/page5.html "Microsoft seemed to hit full stride with Windows 7, developing a fast and efficient operating system. Thankfully it seems Windows 8 continues to build on that pattern as we found it to be on par with and ocassionally faster than 7. The improvements that have been made to startup and shutdown times are self-evident, and no doubt a major focus on the new OS' development as this will particularly benefit laptop and tablet users. Another notable improvement was seen in multimedia performance. This was first observed when running PCMark 7 and later confirmed when we ran x264 HD Benchmark 5.0 and our HandBrake encoding test. Most of the other tests saw little to no difference between the two operating systems. This was especially true for the gaming benchmarks, but most surprising on the IE tests which we figured would have shown a big advantage for IE10, but not so." Awards
HarryWeezer Posted December 12, 2012 Member ID: 20166 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 611 Topics Per Day: 0.14 Content Count: 7655 Content Per Day: 1.81 Reputation: 7232 Achievement Points: 53682 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 36 Joined: 10/04/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 26 Birthday: 10/16/1946 Device: Windows Posted December 12, 2012 Just wondering how many of you have switched to windows 8 and whether its worth the investment or not.... Cheers Joe Joe: FYI, Windows8, per se, is for Americans only; you folks in the frigid north need to get the Canadian version, Canuck8. There are a number of differences. For example, instead of a question mark when using Wordpad, you get an "Eh" - stuff like that. hxtr, coolmd, Guybrush and 2 others 5 Awards
Tball Posted December 12, 2012 Member ID: 112 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 2 Topic Count: 104 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1132 Content Per Day: 0.20 Reputation: 228 Achievement Points: 6975 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 3, 2015 Birthday: 10/09/1960 Posted December 12, 2012 Win 8 sucks wtf is Microsoft thinking Jesus can you say Vista all over again
PingLo Posted December 21, 2012 Member ID: 1103 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 64 Topic Count: 119 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1977 Content Per Day: 0.35 Reputation: 1122 Achievement Points: 15642 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 02/08/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 16, 2013 Birthday: 01/01/2012 Posted December 21, 2012 Windows 8 sucks enough that they fired the guy responsible for it (same guy saved Win7). This pretty much sums it up: coolmd, KaptCrunch, Astronomer and 1 other 4
CobraBites Posted December 21, 2012 Member ID: 2313 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 330 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4924 Content Per Day: 0.95 Reputation: 3034 Achievement Points: 33897 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 03/19/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 2, 2017 Birthday: 05/26/1974 Posted December 21, 2012 he uses animation demos...not real demos...if its that bad why not show the real thing acting up as he claims just saying..only a mac user would post something like that lmao...sorry couldnt help myself pinglo lol
snaFU73 Posted December 21, 2012 Member ID: 85 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 14 Topic Count: 34 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 516 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 147 Achievement Points: 3131 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Friday at 08:01 PM Birthday: 01/30/1973 Device: Windows Posted December 21, 2012 (edited) Thanks PingLo!! Very informative. The review consolidated everything I have heard. Using my computer for mostly work (Production), I do not see the benefits of this new OS. I get the idea of what the Metro interface is going for. But, unless you are a media/information junky, it is too much. The metro interface reminds me of the television interface from the movie Idiocracy. Also.... Does anyone find it stupid to have to download a separate program to force the Windows 8 UI to function in a manner that we have all grow accustom to using over the past 15+ years? Why is that not a setting within Windows 8. Edited December 21, 2012 by snaFU73 PingLo 1 Awards
PingLo Posted December 21, 2012 Member ID: 1103 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 64 Topic Count: 119 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1977 Content Per Day: 0.35 Reputation: 1122 Achievement Points: 15642 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 02/08/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 16, 2013 Birthday: 01/01/2012 Posted December 21, 2012 he uses animation demos...not real demos...if its that bad why not show the real thing acting up as he claims just saying..only a mac user would post something like that lmao...sorry couldnt help myself pinglo lol I think you can just download the real thing and look for yourself, I do believe his commentary was germane to this discussion, the graphics were obviously just to illustrate the point. I really wish Win8 was better, there is no point in making another Vista. Complex items designed by committee are likely to be as bad as one designed by a single person in a bubble. KaptCrunch 1
PingLo Posted December 21, 2012 Member ID: 1103 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 64 Topic Count: 119 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1977 Content Per Day: 0.35 Reputation: 1122 Achievement Points: 15642 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 02/08/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 16, 2013 Birthday: 01/01/2012 Posted December 21, 2012 Thanks PingLo!! Very informative. The review consolidated everything I have heard. Using my computer for mostly work (Production), I do not see the benefits of this new OS. I get the idea of what the Metro interface is going for. But, unless you are a media/information junky, it is too much. The metro interface reminds me of the television interface from the movie Idiocracy. Also.... Does anyone find it stupid to have to download a separate program to force the Windows 8 UI to function in a manner that we have all grow accustom to using over the past 15+ years? Why is that not a setting within Windows 8. Video REDACTED see video above.... I'm all for resetting how people use stuff if it makes sense. This is the MS cycle which brought us: BOB, Millennium, Vista and now Win8. I of course get the fact that I love the following: 1) Using Apple devices and 2) Making money from MS' fuck ups; I've always said I'd be perfectly happy to make money some other way if folks started using a platform that didn't require my assistance.
simplemod Posted December 21, 2012 Member ID: 623 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 21 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1072 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 417 Achievement Points: 7809 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 27, 2018 Birthday: 10/26/1982 Posted December 21, 2012 Was talking to a guy at work yesterday about old computers and such. He recalled his first computer with an actual GUI. Once he began describing it, I said you been on computers longer than Windows 8 ain't you? (he's been on computers since back in the eighties) One of the first windows was apparently very similar in looks to win8. we've come so far, and they revert back to day one. lol. Oh well, I'll stick with my windows 7.
PingLo Posted December 21, 2012 Member ID: 1103 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 64 Topic Count: 119 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1977 Content Per Day: 0.35 Reputation: 1122 Achievement Points: 15642 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 02/08/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 16, 2013 Birthday: 01/01/2012 Posted December 21, 2012 Was talking to a guy at work yesterday about old computers and such. He recalled his first computer with an actual GUI. Once he began describing it, I said you been on computers longer than Windows 8 ain't you? (he's been on computers since back in the eighties) One of the first windows was apparently very similar in looks to win8. we've come so far, and they revert back to day one. lol. Oh well, I'll stick with my windows 7. Yep Windoze 1 was terrible here: Windows1.0.png and 2.0 not much better, 3.11 WFWG got it to be usable simplemod 1
simplemod Posted December 21, 2012 Member ID: 623 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 21 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1072 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 417 Achievement Points: 7809 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 27, 2018 Birthday: 10/26/1982 Posted December 21, 2012 I've never seen any of them that old, I didn't get to start messing with computers till Win95 and later. That pic looks like it would really suck to get around the system in. PingLo 1
Syckle Posted December 21, 2012 Member ID: 2694 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 25 Topic Count: 115 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 432 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 326 Achievement Points: 5572 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 07/26/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 27 Birthday: 08/11/1965 Device: Windows Posted December 21, 2012 i have win 8 on the laptop (just got it) and so far it SUX!!!!!!! so bad that it tried to uninstall it and put win 7 in its place BIG MISTAKE, it doesnt want to go... it took me 2 more days to get the factory reinstall to take, and am still having trouble turning on the wireless, i am going to try the link above to get it back to something i recognize, thanks astronomer and others for the tips PingLo and Astronomer 2 Awards
TheHijacker Posted December 21, 2012 Member ID: 4430 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 12 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 43 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 19 Achievement Points: 369 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/21/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 10, 2013 Birthday: 10/27/1979 Posted December 21, 2012 Windows 8 is not yet setup to support high end graffix cards. I play in eye infinity across three monitors so the uglyness is amplified. In fact steam is now moving to a linux platform because they are so disssatisfied with Windows 8. I also got a free copy of 8, and I installed it and had 14 difffferent driver issues. In there behalf I did install it 3 months beforre the release, hopefully they have those bugs worked out by now. The only real benifit of windows 8 is for touch screen computers or tablets. If you want to check it out before you buy it contact me at [email protected].
Rescue 911 Posted January 8, 2013 Member ID: 1055 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 37 Topic Count: 47 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 356 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 9 Achievement Points: 2344 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 27, 2023 Birthday: 04/09/1977 Posted January 8, 2013 I still use windows XP Pro and was thinking of going on windows 7 or 8. What are you suggesting me to do guys? Stick with Xp, go to 7 or 8??? Can you help me for my choices please? Awards
PingLo Posted January 8, 2013 Member ID: 1103 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 64 Topic Count: 119 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1977 Content Per Day: 0.35 Reputation: 1122 Achievement Points: 15642 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 02/08/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 16, 2013 Birthday: 01/01/2012 Posted January 8, 2013 Windoze 8 is biggest hurt box since Vista for you WiNtel folks!
BUDMAN Posted January 9, 2013 Member ID: 800 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 152 Topic Count: 139 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 7103 Content Per Day: 1.26 Reputation: 4640 Achievement Points: 60416 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 11/27/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 42 minutes ago Birthday: 05/29/1957 Device: Windows Posted January 9, 2013 Windows 7 64 bit.....................................only way to fly Tiger!, hxtr and simplemod 3 Awards
Nobodygood>XI< Posted January 22, 2013 Member ID: 219 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 15 Topic Count: 24 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 492 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 108 Achievement Points: 2906 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 2, 2018 Birthday: 04/28/1957 Posted January 22, 2013 I picked it up for 39.00 and d/l it from Microsoft, still av until the end of the month for that price, after that you will have to pay full price. It takes getting used to, but I build and maintain computers, including a pretty good size network. So I need to have hands on with as many OS I can. Awards
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