My Windows 8 experience
O/T
Last week I ordered my daughter a Dell Inspiron 17R laptop, which came preloaded with Windows 8. After removing McAfee software and adding others, I spent about 5 hours hands-on with this machine, and it was, in one word,SUPERB!
I cannot speak to the Surface users, but using Windows 8 on this machine (no Touch Screen) was absolutely wonderful. You can read about the experience all you want, but until you've actually used it, you won't see what makes this OS truly cutting-edge technology.
This laptop came with a core i3 3227U CPU, 500GB hard drive, 4GB RAM, DVD burner, Wireless, USB3 slots, as well as card readers; true, not the most powerful system, but plenty enough horsepower for her purposes.
It was a thing of beauty, and one of these is in my future, now sooner rather than later.
