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So today, I went with a friend to the not so best buy to get an external hard drive. As usual, I ended up playing with the AIO touchscreen PCs they have their. My friend was looking around at them while I was playing with the jumplists on Windows 7, and my friend found a touch AIO that had the Windows 8 Release Preview installed! I literally ran over and pushed her aside to play with it! After installing the blasted driver to get the touchscreen working as a friend of mine that works there said the geek squad derps couldn't even get it working, it was just YES.
OH MY LORD. I want a touchscreen now.
Using Windows 8 on a touchscreen, WOW!!! It was so fun!!!! It was so fast!! Oh my gosh!!!
Although I got the swiping to work on the right, left, and bottom parts of the screen, I couldn't close out of apps by dragging it down as the derps used a touchscreen AIO PC that had a raised bevel around the screen so swiping was a tad difficult to get it work, as one needs to be precise in doing it. But overall, speechless. It was such a fun experience, metro IE 10 was superb to use, the Desktop was fun to use. Windows 8 works great with a mouse, but stupidly awesome with touch! And yes, I did use the physical keyboard, although I did use the handwriting to text feature that worked real well.
After now using Windows 8 with different sized touchpads on laptops, several mice, and NOW a touchscreen, it's perfect! I do find it now blasphemous to hear that touch doesn't work on the Desktop or anywhere for that matter. Using the Ribbon in Paint and Explorer was real easy and didn't need a lot of precision. It just worked.
Touch is truly the future, and if you'll excuse me, I need to do some research on touchscreens.
OH MY LORD. I want a touchscreen now.
Using Windows 8 on a touchscreen, WOW!!! It was so fun!!!! It was so fast!! Oh my gosh!!!
Although I got the swiping to work on the right, left, and bottom parts of the screen, I couldn't close out of apps by dragging it down as the derps used a touchscreen AIO PC that had a raised bevel around the screen so swiping was a tad difficult to get it work, as one needs to be precise in doing it. But overall, speechless. It was such a fun experience, metro IE 10 was superb to use, the Desktop was fun to use. Windows 8 works great with a mouse, but stupidly awesome with touch! And yes, I did use the physical keyboard, although I did use the handwriting to text feature that worked real well.
After now using Windows 8 with different sized touchpads on laptops, several mice, and NOW a touchscreen, it's perfect! I do find it now blasphemous to hear that touch doesn't work on the Desktop or anywhere for that matter. Using the Ribbon in Paint and Explorer was real easy and didn't need a lot of precision. It just worked.
Touch is truly the future, and if you'll excuse me, I need to do some research on touchscreens.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 Pro
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- ASUS
- CPU
- AMD FX 8320
- Motherboard
- Crosshair V Formula-Z
- Memory
- 16 gig DDR3
- Graphics Card(s)
- ASUS R9 270
- Screen Resolution
- 1440x900
- Hard Drives
- 1 TB Seagate Barracuda (starting to hate Seagate)
x2 3 TB Toshibas
Windows 8.1 is installed on a SanDisk Ultra Plus 256 GB
- PSU
- OCZ 500 watt
- Case
- A current work in progres as I'll be building the physical case myself. It shall be fantastic.
- Cooling
- Arctic Cooler with 3 heatpipes
- Keyboard
- Logitech K750 wireless solar powered keyboard
- Mouse
- Microsoft Touch Mouse
- Browser
- Internet Explorer 11
- Antivirus
- Windows Defender, but I might go back on KIS 2014