Also have they added the ability to move the tiles around so you can arrange them how YOU want them rather than it dictating to you how it has to be (alphabetical order)? As that was really annoying, having to scroll through various screen of tiles to get where i wanted to be was just fail.
Yes you can move the icons around, and add/pin shortcuts for any .exe/app installed. Now if they would allow you to resize icons on the fly and add in custom animations for games that would be really really cool. I want all my games to be two boxes long and they are all one box long atm, and live tiles are restricted to Microsoft apps atm.
I played about with the beta and my opinion of it was that it was horrible, the metro UI is terrible, the fact that it wouldn't actually let me close any open application was just stupid. I spent about 2 days looking at it for work and that was it, since i last looked at it ive not even bothered to keep up to date with changes to it.
Unless they get rid of the forced Metro UI and let you have a standard Windows Desktop I will personally be staying away from it.
MS are trying to streamline their OS's, which I can see the point but a tablet OS on a PC doesn't work. Metro on a tablet/phone is fine, it works with the layout and usability, but on a windws PC be it laptop or desktop just doesn't work in my eyes.
Regarding people saying that the beta is working 5-10% better than Windows 7. Well Windows Vista in Beta was actually amazing but then when they set it for release they broke alot of stuff by removing certain things, like mass driver support and backwards comparability.
Personally i'd say unless forced to move to Windows Metro stay on Windows 7 for as long as you can
You close applications from hovering your mouse in the upper left hand corner of the screen, also the task manager has been greatly overhauled for OCD people.
if you can get over the 'OMG its different', it is an improvement over Windows 7.
It isn't perfect, and they have fixed lots of things, and the OS hasn't even launched yet.
The learning curve of this OS, is similar to Windows 3.1 to Windows 95. So if you are not interested in learning how to do functions in a new OS it may not be for you.
An SSD is great, but it only improves performance that is disk IO bound, i.e., loding textures and whatnot from the file system. Once you are playing it is highly unlikely that the client is going to disk to get data. That would be silly as reading from disk (even with an SSD) is orders of magnitude slower than reading from system memory (RAM). It speeds up load times, but that's it.
What you'll be more concerned with is the performance of the Windows 8 driver for your graphics card.
Well you do need to load the whole game into ram to start playing games, and that is increased by the speed of your SSD/HDD.
Loading times are much faster, and I doubt unless you have significant amounts of RAM that it is loading the entire game into memory.
Ok this sounds good, but I actually do not have an SSD so do you think I would the same speeds as you with an HDD?
I would need your complete computer specs but I would say it would similar speeds without an SSD, with a smoother experience.
You can download the Windows 8 Release Preview straight from Microsoft for free.
If you test out the Release Preview you will have the option to buy the full release for $40 dollars once Windows 8 ships in October.
Also, the price of SSDs have come down look for deals on passwird.com they have them everyday. You can get a small boot drive 100gb for around $100 or less.
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HC is the only fun thing about this game for me now, but I can't invest time into something that has blatant DC issues.
Blizzard has had weeks to fix this and supposedly it was fixed, but apparently not.
If you play HC I would stop right now.
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HC is the only fun thing about this game for me now, but I can't invest time into something that has blatant DC issues.
Blizzard has had weeks to fix this and supposedly it was fixed, but apparently not.
If you play HC I would stop right now.
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Hardware Accelerating Everything: Windows 8 Graphics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtpnVdnkUL0&feature=player_embedded#!
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Yes you can move the icons around, and add/pin shortcuts for any .exe/app installed. Now if they would allow you to resize icons on the fly and add in custom animations for games that would be really really cool. I want all my games to be two boxes long and they are all one box long atm, and live tiles are restricted to Microsoft apps atm.
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You close applications from hovering your mouse in the upper left hand corner of the screen, also the task manager has been greatly overhauled for OCD people.
if you can get over the 'OMG its different', it is an improvement over Windows 7.
It isn't perfect, and they have fixed lots of things, and the OS hasn't even launched yet.
The learning curve of this OS, is similar to Windows 3.1 to Windows 95. So if you are not interested in learning how to do functions in a new OS it may not be for you.
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Well you do need to load the whole game into ram to start playing games, and that is increased by the speed of your SSD/HDD.
Loading times are much faster, and I doubt unless you have significant amounts of RAM that it is loading the entire game into memory.
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I would need your complete computer specs but I would say it would similar speeds without an SSD, with a smoother experience.
You can download the Windows 8 Release Preview straight from Microsoft for free.
If you test out the Release Preview you will have the option to buy the full release for $40 dollars once Windows 8 ships in October.
Also, the price of SSDs have come down look for deals on passwird.com they have them everyday. You can get a small boot drive 100gb for around $100 or less.
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I would say it runs about 5-10% faster with current gen SSDs than the comparable Windows 7 machine.
The key for the performance is a SSD with at least SATA 3 6.0gps specification.
The reason is the new caching and algorithms built into Windows 8 for coping/transferring/reading files.
I have a pretty modern gaming desktop, and a brand new Dell XPS 15 playing WoW, D3, SC2, and GW2.
None of these games are all that intensive, but Windows 8 is definitely a smoother OS.
They have worked out lots of bugs over the alpha/beta process, and the new start menu/metro ui is basically a normal Windows 7 start menu on steroids.