I will continue using Win 7 Pro for a while before I have time to upgrade to Win 8. Need to finish processing lots of wedding photos and album designs first.
I have Windows 7 system I built a while back, it's rock solid for editing. I have a 17" MBP for the front-end visuals and client based interactions, slideshows etc. The perfect pair of systems for what I do. Not interested in Windows 8 anytime soon.
Why I upgraded:
It's fast, realy realy fast!
Boots up in 9 seconds and you don't have to wait a second for the desktop to load (wich I didn't like in win7). It's extremly stable, runs 15 programs at a time without any delay.
Wakening from sleep is just in a blink of an eye.
Every program I have runs at least 10% faster (some like Internet Explorer, mail, excel,... are more like 50% faster). And this is just on a 2010 laptop with first gen i7 1.60 GHz and 6GB of ram! I will install it on my desktop with SSD's, Xeon processors and 24 GB of ram this week, I will have a blast!
ricardovaste wrote:
will Windows 8 be more demanding on my hardware = lower performance ? It seems to look a little different, perhaps nicer, but beyond that I don't really understand it...
Win8 is a BFD. It is the first time an OS upgrade has fewer system requirements than the OS it is replacing. From my understanding, your computer will run faster with win8 than win7.
Another reason to upgrade early: there are fewer known exploits when an OS is young, so your computer will be safer. The older an OS, the more security holes are discovered. XP is riddled with security problems now, much more so than when it was Microsoft's current OS.
playerofwar wrote:
Why I upgraded:
It's fast, realy realy fast!
Boots up in 9 seconds and you don't have to wait a second for the desktop to load (wich I didn't like in win7). It's extremly stable, runs 15 programs at a time without any delay.
Wakening from sleep is just in a blink of an eye.
Every program I have runs at least 10% faster (some like Internet Explorer, mail, excel,... are more like 50% faster). And this is just on a 2010 laptop with first gen i7 1.60 GHz and 6GB of ram! I will install it on my desktop with SSD's, Xeon processors and 24 GB of ram this week, I will have a blast!...Show more →
This sounds promising. Instead of ever increasing bloat and resource requirements for an OS, more speed which is what we actually care about - nice.
Hopefully it also won't need rebuilding every 6 months to maintain performance but that may be wishful thinking.
There is an option to give your pc a fresh start while keeping your programs and documents. I used it and it did the job ,didn't need it, but I was testing it for fun) It only deleted my internet history, Skype for some weird reason (probably already fixed) and some minor programs I did not even know.
Windows 8 takes a few hours to get used to ; searching, sharing, settings are shown when going to the upper right corner, the start screen also feels a bit useless and time consuming in the beginning. But after you get used to it, you realise it's faster and better than Windows 7. With the advantage that you can still do everything "the old way". Some reviewers only played with it for an hour and say it's useless and that are the reviews we all see. Do you need win8? NO Would you want it? YES! When going back to my win7 pc, I have the same feeling as going back to Vista from win7. (no, win7 is not shit like Vista, but win8 is just a huge improvement in the small things that makes everything that much better, inuitivity, ease of use, stability,...)
It feels like it's build for the Profesional and Consumer in 1 OS.
Yes, sometimes there are some very minor bugs (but I only found some in the Preview of Office 2013), but when you report them they are fixed in the next update, probably a coincidence (weekly updates). The more I work with it, the more I like it!
From what I understand, Win8 is geared to realize maximum benefits to tablet/touch screen users. For the rest of us, it is not a huge upgrade. Win7 is working great for me, so I will not upgrade until the initial bugs are worked out and we can see some real world reviews. No use fixing something that isn't broke.
Steve Tinetti wrote:
From what I understand, Win8 is geared to realize maximum benefits to tablet/touch screen users. For the rest of us, it is not a huge upgrade. Win7 is working great for me, so I will not upgrade until the initial bugs are worked out and we can see some real world reviews. No use fixing something that isn't broke.
You are referring to the user interface and not what's under the hood, so to speak. With the OS using less system resources, one would imagine seeing a boost in performance of Lightroom, for example.
I can either report back in this thread or start a new one with my thoughts/comments/analysis on Win8 after I have upgraded my system to it, which I plan on doing.
(weekly updates). The more I work with it, the more I like it!