Yep, really this is day 2. Before it gets brought up no I am not going to doing one of those day to day updates throughout windows 8. But I am actually starting a blog for that. Less annoying. You guys can put your helmets away now.
But basically in two days with the DP in my hands the first thing I liked was the idea of having all the touch this and that all over the place. While I'm just keyboard and mouse of my poor lil'netbook it'll be sweet to actually put a touch based monitor to work when I buy two of them.
While this is just the DP more native drivers for printers would of been nice. Now all my HP 3050 Deskjet does is become a glorified copier and collect dust. Thankfully, I'm not alone and others have Windows 7 so I can print!
I do love the extreme boot improvements to boot time, but I'd really like to see how time will play as factor of how stable Windows 8 will be unlike it's younger sibling 7 and the much older brother Windows XP.
One thing I'm not too overly impressed with and maybe that's only because I have a very limited playing field is the lack of "I don't get distr.... Ooooo Shiny!!" But I'm willing to stick around and see if developers dare to dress to impress.
Lastly since I don't have an open environment such as a full-out desktop to make my test-bed, netbook integration is horrible on the developers' part by making a required resolution of 1024 x 768. Thankfully I do have an old CRT that supports up to 1280 x 1024 but I run it at 1154 x 864 since any higher pushes being able to read the screen and deal with the high pitched squeal!
Other than that, day 2 with WDP has been ok and I'm willing to see what gets cooked up!
ok I'm ready for the on-set of rants and how my opinions are wrong. -- or maybe this place has decent folks who accept opinions!:thumb:
But basically in two days with the DP in my hands the first thing I liked was the idea of having all the touch this and that all over the place. While I'm just keyboard and mouse of my poor lil'netbook it'll be sweet to actually put a touch based monitor to work when I buy two of them.
While this is just the DP more native drivers for printers would of been nice. Now all my HP 3050 Deskjet does is become a glorified copier and collect dust. Thankfully, I'm not alone and others have Windows 7 so I can print!
I do love the extreme boot improvements to boot time, but I'd really like to see how time will play as factor of how stable Windows 8 will be unlike it's younger sibling 7 and the much older brother Windows XP.
One thing I'm not too overly impressed with and maybe that's only because I have a very limited playing field is the lack of "I don't get distr.... Ooooo Shiny!!" But I'm willing to stick around and see if developers dare to dress to impress.
Lastly since I don't have an open environment such as a full-out desktop to make my test-bed, netbook integration is horrible on the developers' part by making a required resolution of 1024 x 768. Thankfully I do have an old CRT that supports up to 1280 x 1024 but I run it at 1154 x 864 since any higher pushes being able to read the screen and deal with the high pitched squeal!
Other than that, day 2 with WDP has been ok and I'm willing to see what gets cooked up!
ok I'm ready for the on-set of rants and how my opinions are wrong. -- or maybe this place has decent folks who accept opinions!:thumb:
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 7
- System Manufacturer/Model
- eMachines / EL1358G
- CPU
- AMD Athlon II X2 220 - 2.8 GHz
- Motherboard
- eMachines EL1358G
- Memory
- Kingston - 3 GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430
- Sound Card
- Realtek High Definition Audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Acer S231HL 23"
- Screen Resolution
- Acer @ 1920 x 1080
- Hard Drives
- HDS721010CLA - Hitachi 1TB
WDC WD10EARS - Western Digital 1TB [External]
- PSU
- LITEON 220W
- Case
- eMachines
- Cooling
- Open case
- Keyboard
- Logitech Illuminated Keyboard
- Mouse
- Logitech M215
- Internet Speed
- 15 Mbps Down / 3 Mbps Up
- Other Info
- HP Deskjet 1000 Printer, HP Deskjet 3050 Printer, HP Officejet 4500 Wireless Printer, HP DVD Writer 1270e