The installation was FAST! The only driver I had to add was the video card driver from NVidia. The basic M$ driver allows full res but is not usable because of the lack of hardware acceleration.
It is a bit weird getting used to using Windows without a start button. And when you press the Windows Flag button on your keyboard a bunch of tiles show up, like the navigation menu to a phone (especially Windows 7 Phone).This is definitely an interface designed for touch, making me wish my laptop supported it.
I have yet to be disappointed, but it is a bit of a learning curve. I like to customize things so I found myself with a few navigational questions:
- How do I easily get to the control panel?
- How do I navigate all my installed programs? Do I really need to press the windows button and use that tile interface?
Then I ran into hover corners. Hover your mouse into each corner and you get some neat icons. The Right corner pops up multiple icons including a Cog wheel - this is still NOT control panel. It looks very similar to the metro-style settings on Windows Phone 7. Right now, the only way I know how to get into control panel is to press the Windows button and start typing - after pressing the C button it begins to search all my apps and Control Panel immediately pops up.When it comes to using Windows 8 in a business environment, I see the large tile thing getting turned off. Touch, at least in the near future is not a feature that will be featured at the desk of a typical office.
Windows-R still works (Thank God) - so starting snippingtool wasn't be a problem.
