Who has tried the Windows 8 consumer preview?

[Gentleman Pirate]

Thoughts?

[Rockntractor]

Thoughts?

I read a thread about it on the notebook forum but haven't got the guts to try it. Drivers are always a big issue.

[Janice]

Looks like it may be fun to have a play with.

[fettpett]

i've been thinking of it, but don't really have the HDD space to do it right now or the time

[Gentleman Pirate]

I've been debating if I was going to load the consumer preview or not. Like Rock stated, drivers are my sticking point. It looks pretty slick.

[Rockntractor]

I've been debating if I was going to load the consumer preview or not. Like Rock stated, drivers are my sticking point. It looks pretty slick.

You did get me thinking about it though, I have plenty of hard drive space and I got bored with linux and kicked it out.

[Zeus]

Isn't windows 8 touch screen based ?

[Janice]

Isn't windows 8 touch screen based ?

Its a combination from my understanding.

[Janice]

You did get me thinking about it though, I have plenty of hard drive space and I got bored with linux and kicked it out.

I mutibooted with linux, xp and vista for quite a while. That grub boot can be a real pain when trying to kick linux and retain windows. And vista by itself is enough to muck up anything. Windows 7 saved the day from that disaster. I currently have one system with 8 primary partitions with several flavors on it of course. No more of that stinkin vista though.

[Janice]

Isn't windows 8 touch screen based ?

The system requirements have stayed the same since the last release, allowing even the most minimal of hardware platforms to run the OS. Official requirements from Microsoft:

Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster

RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit)

Hard disk space: 16 GB (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)

Graphics card: Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device or higher

To use touch, you need a tablet or monitor that supports multitouch

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