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My two cents after using Win8 for a week on a laptop: - Hot corners: fail. MS needs to extend hot zones. Finding the exact point with the touchpad is sometimes
by apetrovic 15y ago
My two cents after using Win8 for a week on a laptop:
- Hot corners: fail. MS needs to extend hot zones. Finding the exact point with the touchpad is sometimes tricky. I can imagine the horror on multimonitor configuration.
- I actually like the start screen. It's clean, and it responds to typing even faster than Win7 start button. Two minor problems: 1) you need to clean up icons after every installation and 2) it doesn't shows everything when I'm typing - I need to explicitly select "settings" after I type "mouse", for example (it's tab - down - enter, not a big deal, but still). Windows 7 start screen displays all find results at once.
- Keyboard is your friend: Win + c for charms, Win + q for programs search, Win + w for settings search. Learn these three shortcuts and you'll have less angry fist shaking.
- Metro: I really hope that the next year will bring us laptops with touch screens. Until then, metro applications aren't very useful when you have only mouse and keyboard.
The rest is, more or less, the same as in Windows 7.
- listic 15y agoLaptops with touch screens FTW! I wonder what the whole computer industry is waiting for? Are they again waiting for Apple to come and do and make what everyone else should have done long time ago instead?
- moheeb 15y agoThey have laptops with touchscreens. You can stop waiting for Apple to do what's already been done. The Dell Inspiron Duo is one such machine. It came out in 2010.
- protomyth 15y agoGiven previous comments, I am pretty sure we won't see an Apple laptop with a touch screen.
- hammersend 15y agoThey might be waiting for the prices for quality touch-screen components to come down. Tacking a capacitive touch-screen to every laptop will probably add at least 100 dollars to the cost of the product. I saw the Dell laptop in CompUSA recently and it was 500 plus dollars with essentially netbook class hardware sans the touch screen.
- Maxious 15y agoStrangely enough, it was reported today that Microsoft is developing quality touch-screen components: http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/09/microsoft-demos-super-fast-touchscreen-but-will-they-ever-make-it-to-market/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/09/microsoft-demos-super-fast-...
- hammersend 15y agoThat isn't a touch screen. They are using a projector as is evidenced by the objects being displayed on the "screen" are from time to time superimposed on the persons fingers.
- Too 15y agoWhy would you want a touchscreen when you have a complete keyboard and touchpad? Touchscreen is just a workaround to make small devices actually usable. For any other scenario kb/touchpad is 100x faster and more comfortable. Unless you are lying down in a sofa just reading but then you don't have a laptop, then you have a tablet and we are back in the small-device-category. I'd rather click a few hard keys or move my thumb 2cm than wave my whole hand in front of the screen.