Diving right in!

[jsiddle]

Ok, not sure any are aware of this...
But I am a professional computer technician with over 10 years under my belt...

I stay ontop of all the latest technology and love it...
I just ordered and am installing the latest windows, Windows 8 Pro
I have been beta testing this OS for a while now and am really excited about this change...
I wouldnt say everyone should upgrade to 8, because it is very different and it has a tad of a learning

curve, so those who dont like change wont like it... but the changes are amazing and the os is very

streamlined. performance and visual upgrades are through the roof.
In fact, I will be able to post and talk to you guys without ever having to open a browser

 

[sparroa]

I'd say I'm too conservative for Windows 8. The things I've read about it don't sound that appealing to me.

 

[sinister]

OSx FTW for graphics and design with windows on vmware for programming :nana:
Interested to see your feedback when youre up and running on W8 though.

 

[gnatjulio]

Is there an upgrade from windows 7 or would I need to buy the whole shebang? What version do you recommend, pro or other?

 

[photoman13]

Slowly moving away from the vista era. Thank god!

 

[jsiddle]

Is there an upgrade from windows 7 or would I need to buy the whole shebang? What version do you recommend, pro or other?

Right now you can buy an upgrade version like i did to windows 8 pro, which is what i recommend

for only $40.00, those who are interested, PM me and I will give u the link on where to find it

on microsofts site... Not sure if they allow the links on these posts...

Slowly moving away from the vista era. Thank god!

Vista is a spawn of satan which will never find its way into my systems

Interested to see your feedback when youre up and running on W8 though.

Release Preview has been good, and I should have the full version up and running about 6-7ish today central time.

 

[mountainman]

i also work in IT, and have been running Windows 8 for a couple of months. Full release. And i agree, it is banging fast and i really like it. The learning curve is there, but not much worse than going from XP to Vista or something similar.
I wonder if there are going to be enough apps to make the new UI fully engaging. Promising so far.
I don't know if you dig on the enterprise aspects of the OS, but the coolest feature i am looking at is called Direct Access. The OS can detect when on the corporate network or not, and automatically build an IPSEC tunnel back to the office and make a seamless "always on" VPN experience. It is awesome.
Nerd talk over.

 

[hawk60ce]

Mac man here

 

[jsiddle]

I wonder if there are going to be enough apps to make the new UI fully engaging. Promising so far.

The apps for windows 8 and windows phone 8 are going to skyrocket now that they are built in native programming languages like other OS apps

I don't know if you dig on the enterprise aspects of the OS, but the coolest feature i am looking at is called Direct Access. The OS can detect when on the corporate network or not, and automatically build an IPSEC tunnel back to the office and make a seamless "always on" VPN experience. It is awesome.

Thats pretty tight...

 

[cynyr]

I'm still holding on to XP :nana:
But I've got to build a new PC for home, so it'll probably be 8. That'll be the first OS I have actually paid for in years.

 

[sinister]

Mac man here

^ 5

 

[baronsamedi]

I learn that stuff pretty fast and right now my laptop runs Vista so I'm in for this one once the bugs are worked out.

 

[jsiddle]

so I'm in for this one once the bugs are worked out.

Even running the release preview it was pretty bug free....
I will let you know tonight

 

[baronsamedi]

That'll be a change for the good. How much memory does it need compared to Vista? Vista is a pig.

 

[photoman13]

Baron are you talking about how much hard drive space for the OS or ram to run it smoothly? I would be curious about the ram. I remember when I used to have vista and I had to have 4 gb of ddr2 for it to run smoothly. Oh and down with apple!!! JK. :lol:

 

[jsiddle]

This OS is the same running on tablets and laptops, so its been optimized for better performance
1 GHz processor or faster with support for PAE, NX, and SSE2

2 GB RAM / 20 GB available hard disk space

1366 × 768 screen resolution

DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM driver

To use touch, you need a PC that supports multitouch

Microsoft account required for some features

 

[jsiddle]

Indeed down with apple...
My specs are as follows:
AMD FX-6100 6 Core Proc Overclocked to 4.8GHz a Core (6 x 4.8GHz),

16GB of 1600MHz OC Memory,

Intel Series 520 120GB Solid State Drive,

ATI Radeon HD 6950 2GB Graphics Chip (My graphics card alone could probably run windows 8 lol),

two 1TB storage hard drives, blu ray drive, antec case...
I think I surpassed the requirements a bit

 

[photoman13]

You must be a video game junkie! Dang those are some great specs.

 

[jsiddle]

Yes sir, I professionally competed in a few MLG tournaments this past year in Battlefield 3...
The system is also my design system...

 

[jsiddle]

Well if you want i would say a 20-40% increase in performance from win7, 60% increase from vista, or outstanding increase from xp, you might wanna give it a looksy