





The Transformer AiO is one of the biggest tablets out there. 


II. TAICHI Dual-Wields


ASUSTek TAICHI dual-wields LCD touchscreens




III. Transformer Books Switch to Windows 8





IV.  Tablet 600 Pairs Windows 8 and Tegra


ASUSTek Tablet 600

Pricing has not been announced.



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By xthetenth on 6/4/2012 6:40:32 PM , Rating: 2
I've been using Windows 8 on my laptop pretty much since the preview came out because I didn't have another OS to put on the SSD I put in it otherwise. I would never ever consider taking the huge downgrade to Windows 7.

Being able to boot my laptop from shutdown to password screen in four seconds is huge, and 7 is significantly slower to boot in my experience on my desktop's SSD. The start screen is the best change to the start menu since the search became usable with SSDs, but that hardly matters because the search feels much better tuned so if I want to open something specific that can't be pinned (itself very hard, since with more than six or so pinned programs I can actually fit everything useful) it's just a matter of win key, three or so keys and enter and it's open.

Metro is a total red herring thrown around by people who haven't tried the preview, I haven't used it more than once in the month I've been using this laptop. The only metro stuff I see is the start menu, and that's phenomenally useful and bound to become even more so. I have thirty programs pinned and it's just about as fast to find the right one there as it is to find one of the six on the Win 7 start menu. It's also more efficient since when you tap windows, your cursor, which is likely to be in the center of the screen is likely right near what you want, rather than needing to move to the corner. I have no sympathy for people who can't figure out that tapping the Windows key with their left thumb makes the start screen far more usable than the start menu. The use of color is also quite welcome, it makes it much easier to find things, I just hope I can give pinned icons their own colors.

TL;DR: I've been using Windows 8 as my only OS and I'm sold on it, and think most of the complaints are from people who used it for only a few hours rather than actually working on it and realizing the efficiencies inherent to the changes to it on a desktop platform.

