Posted on 01/22/2014 9:52:38 PM PST by This Just In
So our child finally received that Asus notebook as a gift from a loved one-as some of you already know from a previous post (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3110216/posts).
After reading all of the comments, and visiting various sites concerning Windows 8, we finally got to experience the OS for ourselves.
The box was delivered just in time for school. Spring college courses, as many of your know, have started. We were edger to get started with the notebook. Encouraging the kid to start familiarizing himself with the tool. I was especially curious to see for myself whether or not all the talk/bemoaning about Windows 8 was all it was cracked up to be.
Frankly, I was hoping the naysayers were all prone to exaggeration, and that this notebook would be a breeze to work with (namely, Windows 8). We own a MacBook Pro as well as a Dell with Windows XP. A cinch to use right out of the box. Why would I want my child to have to deal with an OS that is so counter-intuitive, so moronically bass ackwardly unsimple (is that a word? If not, it should be for this very reason)? So there I was, secretly hoping that the bemoaners were just chronic, nitpicky complainers.
Well, I've just joined the Chronic-Nitpicky-Exaggerating-Naysayers-Anti-Windows 8-Club.
For goodness sakes. You mean to tell me that some genius designed! that OS?! Honestly...
For the last several days these are the sounds/reactions I've been hearing from the college kid while "working" on the notebook:
"Sigh. Why is it so slow?" "This is taking forever" "What does this mean?"
Just yesterday, after hearing about our new notebook-without any prompting, a coworker calmly and flatly stated, "If you can't figure out how to turn it off, it's a Windows 8".
That brief statement was on the money. Why should it take a magnifying glass, blood hound, a world atlas, and Stephen Hawking to figure out how to turn off the friggin machine?!
So, in closing, I would like to say hello to my new friends in this not-so-exclusvie-club of Window 8ters. I can now officially commiserate with you.
If any of you have any advice, recommendations, or Windows 8 experiences that you wish to share with the rest of us, please do.
Needed to install the Miley Cyrus app for that... ;-)
Well he’s fortunate to be using it in such a limited capacity. If your brother-in-law should ever try to use another OS, I’m sure he’d be surprised (and liberated) to discover how much more intuitive a superior OS can be.
Oh, you mean Cupertino!
:^D Be sure to wear gloves. You don’t know where that apps been.
LOL.
Frankly, I wouldn’t say that iTunes is “evil”. Just considered it akin to a bi-polar relative.
Check out the Start8 component.
Thanks, Gene Eric. I’ll do that.
I was just joking around with you. The YouTube video started with a Prius commercial.sorry about that. I thought it was funny.
The most important piece of software to add to Windows 8 is "ClassicShell" It is free from Sourceforge. It will give you back your start button when in desktop mode.
just because no one wants anything to do with the PC doesn’t mean they are correct. It just means they love that wonderful beachball of death and losing all their work when it shows up.maybe in the music business you don’t have to worry about dropped fonts in an ad a customer doing a chargeback because of a stupid Macintosh computer they can’t handle fonts.
:^)
It was pretty bizarre. The piano/table tennis segment was especially peculiar.
“...who emailed me the next day that he didn’t like me.”
LOL. At least your cyber friend still likes you.
Drag your screen from the top down to the bottom turns off a program.
wild game-animal magnetism. I think you’re onto something. :^)
Ok thanks, will try it for our staff
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