Windows 8-Ball Consumer Preview @ TechReport

I was going to do a little write-up on Windows 8 Preview (and still might) but after reading thru what TR's David Morgan has to say about it I would feel like I was copying them word for word.  I mean everything they say about Windows 8 is exactly how I feel and my exact same experience.

The only difference?  I ran my demo on a Core i7 3960X with 16GB of Ram and a single GTX 580, A considerably faster with the same end results.

In its current form, I feel Windows 8 is woefully inadequate for desktop power users. At best, the Metro tiles can be organized into groups and used like a restrictive version of Stardock's Fences. For touch-enabled devices, however, Windows 8 will truly be able to shine. Swiping from the edges of the screen to access menus is more natural and intuitive than having to drive your mouse pointer all over creation to call up and click on options that seemingly never pop up near the cursor's present position.

After playing with the OS, it's painfully obvious Windows 8 should be marketed purely for touch devices. The fact that it can run regular desktop applications may suggest otherwise, but even in desktop mode, everything tries to get you back to the Metro interface as soon as possible. In fact, desktop mode feels a lot like a virtual machine, existing for those rare moments when you need to dock your tablet to a keyboard and get some meaningful work done. Admittedly, I could happily put up with the annoyances of the desktop interface if I were only using it in such short bursts.

I sat down to play the included Pinball game and loved the graphics and hated how ill responsive the controls where.  You know how when you play online there can be a lag?  Well this is a desktop game and by the time you press to hit the flipper some time has passed and the ball is no longer on target.

Seriously, how do you fuk up Pinball?

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