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Brakien — Windows 8 DP Start Menu
Published: 2011-09-29 02:52:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 2001; Favourites: 2; Downloads: 67
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This is the windows 8 dp start menu. They are using the same metro style tiles from windows phone 7. all apps can be found in here and some of them are live updating tiles like twitter and facebook.Related content
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no matter what microsoft thinks no one will convert to touch. on handheld devices maybe but we all know that even handheld touch screens are harder to type on accurately than real keys. mice and keyboards were designed for speed. moving your hands around a 20+ inch screen is not the exactly speedy.
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actually they designed this new keyboard don't know how to describe it but here is a link to a video on it. skip to about 3:50 to see the new keyboard.
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oops...I'm soooo sorry!!! I can't believe I forgot to put it in!! here it is [link] skip to 3:45
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obviously the tablet used in the video is using a ssd or the apps opened during the presentation have been preloaded during bootup. tablets have not been known to be fast like this unless everything is in ram/on ssd. anyway that keyboard is no different than any other touch screen keyboards. i honestly dont see myself switching to windows 8. its the same situation when vista came out. i kept running xp until 7 was out and actually im only running 7 as of last fall on my main pc but laptop still has xp as its older.
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well, would you use a regular hdd in a tablet? sdd's are much more efficient and withstand up to 1500g's of force compared to 300g of an hdd. Yeah, I did the same with xp. I went from xp to 7 and didn't even bother with vista. The only reason I went to 7 is because of dx11 and a bunch of other stuff that isn't available on xp.
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well ya about ssd but if they wanted to keep costs down they can still use laptop drives. if i decided to get tablet and it only had like 64 gigs which appears as the max that i have seen i would change it for a 500 or higher capacity drive so i can take all my movies with me. 7 is basically what vista should have been when it was released but microsoft was pressured to release a already delayed OS so they released a half-ass one. there is little difference between 7 and vista as far as i could remember cuz i used vista for a few days on a spare drive before i put back my xp drive in. when 7 came out it was basically a mostly fixed vista LOL. Anyway are you gonna get 8 when final is released? im not planning until at least a year or so after they work out all the crap.
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even though you have that space with an hdd what would happen if you were to drop it? it would destroy the hdd and its data. Plus ocz has some pretty large ssds [link] [link] don't think the other computer users in my house who aren't very tech savvy would really like switching to windows 8 kuz even to me it's kinda confusing.
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well ya i know ssd is safer in impact tests but like all ram ssd will eventually go bad cell by cell so the lifespan of an ssd is less than hd. i read somewhere that a cell in a ssd drive is only rated for 3000 r/w cycles so repetitive updates to a particular file like a swap or temp will wear out the ssd fast unless the controller will pick a new address space each time there is a new write. There is an article on toms hardware guide about ssd life. they did a test where a webhosting company replaced part of their drives over a year ago with ssds and so far no errors despite the limited r/w cycles. maybe cuz at a webhost most of the cycles are reads. but a data backup company in same situation would in theory suffer more. if i had a tabled with a harddrive in it i would not get into a situation where i would have a chance of dropping it (none of my idiot friends would touch it) so for me a big drive would work better would be much cheaper and of course i would have a backup of the media in case it dies beyond my control. i was seriously thinking of getting one of those chinese ipad clone tablets that run android but since im still unemployed any money i spend now is for necessary things.
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very long comments FTW!!! I get what your talking about it's just personal preference kuz I tend to drop things... Also My ssd right now is rated for 140 million hours of life and before that even comes close to being there I would replace it with a bigger drive as the need comes.
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140 million hours? i dont believe it. which one you have?
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oops I read that wrong, this is what it actually says..."With a MTBF of 1 million hours plus a life expectancy of up to 140 years*" *Over 140 years with daily writes of 50GB to a 32GB Imation SSD. If you have trim support (only windows 7) then the degradation of performance will be done away with. info on trim here [link]
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ssd is nice but i think i will wait a bit longer till they improve them.
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give em a year or 2 and they will be just as cheap as a hard drive
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