[Ninja101]

What's with the fish?

[barttool]

This live webcast from The Verge is awesome. The Verge = Best tech site right now!

[kaukassus]

Ninja101 posted:

What's with the fish?

its the beta fish

[Aurorion]

26 Minutes remaining for me.

[Panda X]

Ninja101 posted:

What's with the fish?

Flat simplistic (Metro-like) Betta fish

[EliteGuy]

Any performance improvements on W8?

[Ninja101]

kaukassus posted:

its the beta fish

They should keep it for the release. It's way better than the Windows...window.


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And it's done, pretty sweet.

[Panda X]

EliteGuy posted:

Any performance improvements on W8?

Yes it's much quicker and uses less memory.

[barttool]

EliteGuy posted:

Any performance improvements on W8?

I think that's like, the biggest selling point for me. Apparently uses half the RAM Win7 uses. Boots up in few seconds

[P320]

Microsoft used a betta fish in the Windows 8 Beta?

"LIKE IT HASN'T ALREADY BEEN FUCKING DONE BEFORE!"

[Panda X]

Wow that was a quicker install than I thought it'd be. It installed those shitty AMD drivers so now going anywhere near the screen it lags for a while. Did the same in the dev preview.

[ali3n92]

P320 posted:

Microsoft used a betta fish in the Windows 8 Beta?

"LIKE IT HASN'T ALREADY BEEN FUCKING DONE BEFORE!"

And? So what if it has been done before, it's fitting. And the fish looks different from the one used in Windows 7 Beta.

[starbug]

P320 posted:

Microsoft used a betta fish in the Windows 8 Beta?

"LIKE IT HASN'T ALREADY BEEN FUCKING DONE BEFORE!"

And yet, if they'd have done something else, they'd have people bitching that they wasted developer time on that.

[Milky]

I can't really be bothered with doing a Dual boot, would I get away with just using Win8?

[barttool]

Milky posted:

I can't really be bothered with doing a Dual boot, would I get away with just using Win8?

not all devices and drivers work, if you do work or important stuff other than browsing and playing games (not even all games work) you could use win8 with no problems, otherwise, I wouldn't recommend it.

[GoDong-DK]

They changed the way the "move the mouse to one side" switching works, sweet. Having to use the scroll wheel to change between small thumbnails didn't work very well.

[P320]

barttool posted:

not all devices and drivers work, if you do work or important stuff other than browsing and playing games (not even all games work) you could use win8 with no problems, otherwise, I wouldn't recommend it.

If the beta gives me any major troubles with playing TF2, Photoshop CS5, or video encoding, I'll just resort back to 7's stable epicness.

[Aurorion]

Guys, I got an idea, I want to install Win8 on my laptop ( offered by my highschool ), isn't too risky ?

[Ninja101]

Not sure I like how they've made the Start button on taskbar. You have to drag mouse to very bottom left of screen and then it'll popup for you to click.

[Panda X]

The new weather app blows the previous one away.

[TheGuru]

Got it installed now as my only OS on my desktop. Only way I'll really see if I like it.

Already, many things I dislike (at least by default, hopefully I can customise a ton)

[Dominik93]

Installing it right now, wanted to do it on a VHD but somehow it didn't like it. (Told me it couldn't boot from it and thus not install it there but I found an empty 40GB partition which I used now, I hope I didn't fuck anything up)

[Sam Za Nemesis]

Installing Customer Preview on my tablet right now, I'll finally make a video of it once I install

[Milky]

barttool posted:

not all devices and drivers work, if you do work or important stuff other than browsing and playing games (not even all games work) you could use win8 with no problems, otherwise, I wouldn't recommend it.

I think I'll risk it, I only have a 256GB SSD so don't have lots of space to play with, I can easily reinstall 7 if I come across an issue.

[Panda X]

A new 3D pinball game!

[Sam Za Nemesis]

Panda X posted:

A new 3D pinball game!

Space Cadet 2?

[Panda X]

Ninja101 posted:

Not sure I like how they've made the Start button on taskbar. You have to drag mouse to very bottom left of screen and then it'll popup for you to click.

You don't have to wait for it to show up. It works like it always has, just click it. Only thing different is its appearance.

[Dominik93]

Okay, installed! Multiscreen support seems to be "weird". I got Metro on the left, but the normal desktop on the right.

[Panda X]

Sam Za Nemesis posted:

Space Cadet 2?

Pinball FX

Level 1

[horsedrowner]

I'm really impressed so far. It's got everything from my phone, too. I didn't have to set up Gmail, for example.

I'm missing Live Mesh, though. I can see SkyDrive, but not stuff synced with Mesh.

[Dominik93]

Windows 8 supports widescreen wallpapers (ala one long wallpaper for both displays)

[uitham]

That system requirements checker thing

"Your CPU is not sufficient for the consumer preview, you need at least 1GHz"

My CPU might be crappy, but it is 2GHz

Intel Celeron E1400 @ 2.00GHz
Conroe 65nm Technology

[barttool]

horsedrowner posted:

I'm really impressed so far. It's got everything from my phone, too. I didn't have to set up Gmail, for example.

I'm missing Live Mesh, though. I can see SkyDrive, but not stuff synced with Mesh.

wait, what? It syncs the info from Windows phone?? holy phuckk

[horsedrowner]

barttool posted:

wait, what? It syncs the info from Windows phone?? holy phuckk

Yeah, Calender and shit too.

[Panda X]

About 30 seconds into logging in someone on WLM sent me a message and it went through the messages app. Now I love that. You can even dock the messages off to the side and always have that there. This is just brilliant.

[JimJam707]

barttool posted:

Still 4 hours to go :(

I have half the speed of you.

[horsedrowner]

All my Metro apps just turned German.

[uitham]

uitham posted:

That system requirements checker thing

"Your CPU is not sufficient for the consumer preview, you need at least 1GHz"

My CPU might be crappy, but it is 2GHz

Intel Celeron E1400 @ 2.00GHz
Conroe 65nm Technology

So uh... what do?

[Panda X]

I was curious as to how I could use the app switcher with two monitors, Win+Tab now shows that sidebar of running apps. Neat.

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WEI gives quite different results.

[mblunk]

well that took a whole 67 seconds