Windows 8

[eugene]

i've been reading a lot of reviews and comments on surface rt and most of them makes me want to apply for american citizenship and vote romney.

 

the ipadization and consolizations of modern computing is seriously depressing. in this blog (http://ozar.me/2012/...oft-surface-rt/) one of the reasons for the return of surface was that the word 2013 was lagging (an issue that's been fixed in the update on day one), when the dude was explained that it needs to be updated via desktop mode (or wait till the auto-update kicks in after midnight) he moaned about having a windows desktop mode in a tablet. actually there have been a lot of criticism towards surface having a desktop mode where you have a more advanced interface and control panel, access to registry, command prompt and such. it's just fucking insane that such thing is considered a disadvantage especially when the switch from metro to desktop is effortless.

 

people can't even differentiate between a hardware and software issue and deem the surface as "poor performer". for example, in some youtube review for surface some popular mobile game appeared to be running choppy and then reviewer proceeded bash surface's weak gfx failing to notice that windows' rt overlay graphical interface ran with a high fps atop the choppy game, indicating that the gfx wasn't overloaded.

 

while it seems that there's noting wrong with expecting a perfect product that'll self update and do other things without you even noticing, the other side of that is the intense dumbification of a user and the removal of his control over his hardware. i think this would make an interesting topic for a thesis..

[oscillik]

Also, please do elaborate on the system you are building. PC specs are like porn to me.

 

 

Case: Corsair Obsidian 800D

Case fans: combination of Corsair AF120, AF140 and SP120 fans, 12 in total.

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-3960X 6-core

Heatsink: Corsair Hydro H100 closed-loop water cooled radiator

Motherboard: Asus Rampage IV Extreme

RAM: Corsair Dominator GT Quad Channel 1866MHz 32GB (4x 8GB modules, board can take 8 modules total so the plan is eventually 64GB RAM)

Storage: Corsair Neutron GTX 240GB SSD

Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 690

Power Supply: Corsair AX1200i digital PSU

Monitor: Dell UltraSharp U3011 30" IPS Display

 

edit: tried to fix URL tags about 5 times now, I give up. all devices should have direct links but they won't work for some reason. google for them if you're curious. here's what I have built so far

 

[Guest Frankie5fingers]

oh God, i think i need to change my pants. thats so beautiful man. id love to see it finished.

[Rubin Farr]

Saw a bunch of tablets running this at Best Buy. Geniuses had them all locked with an admin password, so useless. Typical Geek Squad stupidity.

[oscillik]

back on topic - my laptop is running a cracked Windows 7

 

I just started the Windows 8 upgrade (legit) on my laptop...it's installing, 6% complete...

 

I'll keep people posted

[eugene]

back on topic - my laptop is running a cracked Windows 7

 

I just started the Windows 8 upgrade (legit) on my laptop...it's installing, 6% complete...

 

I'll keep people posted

 

i've read some more about it, chances are it'll work and activate just fine, but then no one gives you guarantees that it'll completely overwrite all of the info about the previous activation. so it's not like you're "stepping out of the shadow" in microsoft's eyes with this upgrade.

[oscillik]

back on topic - my laptop is running a cracked Windows 7

 

I just started the Windows 8 upgrade (legit) on my laptop...it's installing, 6% complete...

 

I'll keep people posted

 

i've read some more about it, chances are it'll work and activate just fine, but then no one gives you guarantees that it'll completely overwrite all of the info about the previous activation. so it's not like you're "stepping out of the shadow" in microsoft's eyes with this upgrade.

 

Well if this successfully finishes installing, I'm gonna try wiping the hard disk completely, and then trying to install a 'fresh' Windows 8 from the upgrade disc (because it does give this option). Should be interesting to see if it works, and if it does I'm cancelling my Amazon orders!

[kaini]

back on topic - my laptop is running a cracked Windows 7

 

I just started the Windows 8 upgrade (legit) on my laptop...it's installing, 6% complete...

 

I'll keep people posted

 

if you're using the same keygen as me, i don't foresee problems. what it does is to grab OEM license keys based on your hardware, and they give out OEM license keys like they're candy.

[oscillik]

back on topic - my laptop is running a cracked Windows 7

 

I just started the Windows 8 upgrade (legit) on my laptop...it's installing, 6% complete...

 

I'll keep people posted

 

if you're using the same keygen as me, i don't foresee problems. what it does is to grab OEM license keys based on your hardware, and they give out OEM license keys like they're candy.

 

yeah, I'm sure it's probably the same one. So that's good news!

[oscillik]

further update - have installed the £24.99 upgrade edtion onto a blank drive (without a prior version of Windows installed) and it works

[eugene]

did it activate without issues ?

[david]

more tower pix, that case is sexy

[splesh]

Most annoying thing for me about Windows 8 is the lack of BIOS. I still don't know how to work around UEFI to install live CDs.

[Guest Al Hounos]

The good news is that beta testing for steam on Linux is about to begin.

Hopefully 2013 will be the year when I no longer have to dual boot with windows for the rare occasions I want to relax with a video game.

[oscillik]

lol steam on linux

[Blir]

Most annoying thing for me about Windows 8 is the lack of BIOS. I still don't know how to work around UEFI to install live CDs.

 

Um... what?

 

The motherboard has the BIOS.

[GORDO]

because of the 'fast booting' thing i'm guessing you don't normally see the bios booting up. i bet you have to do an actual restart to access the conf menu.

[eugene]

this thingie would be really cool for win8:

 

hah, not surprising: "Absolutely. We created the hardware with Windows 8 in mind :)"

[goffer]

Updated my gaming rig on Friday to 8... everything went smooth, no driver issues or anything. Installed Start8 to get my start menu back. Very pleased with it.

[splesh]

because of the 'fast booting' thing i'm guessing you don't normally see the bios booting up. i bet you have to do an actual restart to access the conf menu.

This, from what I understand.

[GORDO]

So if I update from vista will all the stuff in the personal folders transfer automatically? should I install on a different partition just to be safe?

[oscillik]

because of the 'fast booting' thing i'm guessing you don't normally see the bios booting up. i bet you have to do an actual restart to access the conf menu.

This, from what I understand.

 

nope, Windows 8 does not stop any computer from doing a POST (Power On Self Test, also known as "the BIOS screen" to most people)

 

Windows 8 does, however, hibernate it's own kernel. this has no bearing on the POST at all.

[TRiP]

friend of mine got a new laptop the other day - pre-installed windows 8 - looks absolutely awful and completely unnecessary for laptops (although i can see it being OK with smartphones/touch tabs)

 

just doing something as simple as opening an image creates horrible unnecessary steps

 

defo dont get it if you can help it

[oscillik]

friend of mine got a new laptop the other day - pre-installed windows 8 - looks absolutely awful and completely unnecessary for laptops (although i can see it being OK with smartphones/touch tabs)

 

just doing something as simple as opening an image creates horrible unnecessary steps

 

defo dont get it if you can help it

 

I've been reading up on Windows 8 the past few days, and there are lots of improvements under the hood which are a massive benefit to every computer user that is wanting to squeeze more performance out of their machine and be more efficient about it.

 

But if you don't like the look of it, that's understandable - I don't like the Start screen either. Luckily there are 3rd party solutions cropping up to step in.

[Ego]

I've been reading up on Windows 8 the past few days, and there are lots of improvements under the hood which are a massive benefit to every computer user that is wanting to squeeze more performance out of their machine and be more efficient about it.

Such as?

 

Browsing through the feature lists the only thing I found that is of some remote interest to me is the revamped task manager. I doubt it'll match the features of Process Explorer though.