Windows 8 and a touch AIO

Today, a friend of mine passed off a touchscreen AIO PC that once ran Windows 7, built by HP. Apparently a friend of my friend got a KILLER of a deal on it, it needs a new hard drive by I'm currently using my hard drive in it. As of right now, I am typing this on the physical wireless keyboard with it, using the touch 100 PERCENT, no rodent. I have to say, honestly, if you're the type of person that says touch on the desktop is a no go; quite frankly, you're touchscreening wrong. I have no gorilla arm, a two point touch screen works just a great as a mouse if not better. This is true.

But this is really allowing me to personally get into the real touch aspect of Windows 8, oh my my! Bloody brilliant to say the least! I'm getting Speech Recognition set up as I will have my desktop mic arriving soon to use on my other PC, but right now, it needs training and I am too tired to do so.

For the curious, the keyboard is right in front of the screen, my eyeballs are about two feet and a few inches away from the screen (as to easily touch the screen, you don't sit five feet away and say touch is bad on the desktop) and sitting in the most proper sitting position I've ever sat with a desktop PC. It works rather well.

AutoCAD is iffy on the two point input screen from what I've tested, but I believe that is a hardware issue with the touch input than anything being limited.

Sounds good with a few hardware hacks i mean customized improcements it'll be a' bombi'n

Coke Robot said:

I have to say, honestly, if you're the type of person that says touch on the desktop is a no go; quite frankly, you're touchscreening wrong. I have no gorilla arm, a two point touch screen works just a great as a mouse if not better. This is true.

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I've been using some Acer all in one touchscreens at work for the past 2 months. While they work absolutely fine, I rarely ever touch the screen. At this point, while I'm totally fine with Windows 8, I'm far more comfortable with the keyboard and mouse and still prefer it.

pparks1 said:

Coke Robot said:

I have to say, honestly, if you're the type of person that says touch on the desktop is a no go; quite frankly, you're touchscreening wrong. I have no gorilla arm, a two point touch screen works just a great as a mouse if not better. This is true.

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I've been using some Acer all in one touchscreens at work for the past 2 months. While they work absolutely fine, I rarely ever touch the screen. At this point, while I'm totally fine with Windows 8, I'm far more comfortable with the keyboard and mouse and still prefer it.

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I haven't used a mouse in more than 24 hours, I feel weird when I used one between that time.

I expected Windows 8 to be great with touch, and expected using a touchscreen on a desktop to be great, both expectations have been met and exceeded.

Well, it sure is good we still have support for both methods...as it seems some people really prefer one over the other.

pparks1 said:

Well, it sure is good we still have support for both methods...as it seems some people really prefer one over the other.

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As is why Windows 8 supports both!