Well, it was only about a 3.5 GB download, so of course you shouldn't have expected much change.
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How about we lose the attitude?
At some point, I am going to be buying a new laptop to replace the XP netbook I've been carting around (which is definitely getting a bit long in the tooth, just like XP itself is). Matter of deciding how much I want to spend and what type to get (which will partly be based on what kind of power I need to run a particular program which is putting out a major overhaul/upgrade soon; I'm waiting on that to see what I need).
BUT, if there is one thing I love about that netbook, it's the fact that it weighs only 3 pounds and consistently got 8+ hours of battery life (back when the battery was newer, anyway). I'm really not willing to go back to the "old ways" on either of those criteria at this point.
So, finding a laptop or ultrabook that I like overall and meets those criteria, but comes with 7 instead of 8, is way more difficult. So it's a near certainty that I will have a Win8.1 laptop sometime in the not too distant future.
That said, I tried 8 out for a couple months, via two ultrabooks that I tried (ended up returning both of em, too many annoying design issues I wasn't willing to live with, especially for a 1200+ computer). I do feel that many of Microsoft's decisions with regard to 8 have been bad ones (and that shoehorning the desktop and metro UIs into this single smorgasbord was chief among them, especially for a desktop PC), but, at least for me and the way I use a Windows PC, I was able to configure 8 to basically be a faster 7 after about two hours of research and tinkering (and without spending anything). The metro UI/start screen never appeared unless I specifically wanted it to, and none of the apps or programs I use have to be launched from it or take up the whole screen, etc. So that, combined with the improvements in 8.1, mean that I'm pretty much fine with 8.
BUT, if there is one thing I love about that netbook, it's the fact that it weighs only 3 pounds and consistently got 8+ hours of battery life (back when the battery was newer, anyway). I'm really not willing to go back to the "old ways" on either of those criteria at this point.
So, finding a laptop or ultrabook that I like overall and meets those criteria, but comes with 7 instead of 8, is way more difficult. So it's a near certainty that I will have a Win8.1 laptop sometime in the not too distant future.That said, I tried 8 out for a couple months, via two ultrabooks that I tried (ended up returning both of em, too many annoying design issues I wasn't willing to live with, especially for a 1200+ computer). I do feel that many of Microsoft's decisions with regard to 8 have been bad ones (and that shoehorning the desktop and metro UIs into this single smorgasbord was chief among them, especially for a desktop PC), but, at least for me and the way I use a Windows PC, I was able to configure 8 to basically be a faster 7 after about two hours of research and tinkering (and without spending anything). The metro UI/start screen never appeared unless I specifically wanted it to, and none of the apps or programs I use have to be launched from it or take up the whole screen, etc. So that, combined with the improvements in 8.1, mean that I'm pretty much fine with 8.
RevdKathy has this and loves it. http://www.trustedreviews.com/asus-transformer-book-t100_Tablet_review
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