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This is no longer true in the final release. You can have the start button, but you're completely reverting to 7, you lose all Win8 enhancements.
I'm running Win 8 Enterprise x64 Build 9200 RTM, in other words, the one you'll see in Oct (I'm a Technet member) and there's NO start button. There are a couple 3rd party hacks available that will add a start button-like hack. See MaximumPC.com and you'll find an article indicating that Microsoft has no intention to bring the start button back.
Very wrong there. The kernel has changed... a lot. The hacking convention in July actually took a look at Win8 and how much it changed. They noticed many differences. This isn't like the iPad three that got a new screen, there are many changes under the hood.
There are a few superficial changes, e.g. a somewhat enhanced Task Manager, and some changes they were forced into because of the poor implementation of the GUI. It is a true nightmare trying to toggle back and forth from the desktop and GUI.
As far as performance, as you can see in my original attachment, my system is by no means slow. My experience index was bottle necked at my SSD. As noted above, there is a huge performance difference when playing Diablo 3 on highest settings. I am assuming though that this is due to the Catalyst suite that doesn't yet support Win8, more to come on that.
Well I prefer more strenuous benchmarks. Based on my benchmarks there's NO performance improvements, see post #395, page 10: Winders 8
This is no longer true in the final release. You can have the start button, but you're completely reverting to 7, you lose all Win8 enhancements.
I'm running Win 8 Enterprise x64 Build 9200 RTM, in other words, the one you'll see in Oct (I'm a Technet member) and there's NO start button. There are a couple 3rd party hacks available that will add a start button-like hack. See MaximumPC.com and you'll find an article indicating that Microsoft has no intention to bring the start button back.
Very wrong there. The kernel has changed... a lot. The hacking convention in July actually took a look at Win8 and how much it changed. They noticed many differences. This isn't like the iPad three that got a new screen, there are many changes under the hood.
There are a few superficial changes, e.g. a somewhat enhanced Task Manager, and some changes they were forced into because of the poor implementation of the GUI. It is a true nightmare trying to toggle back and forth from the desktop and GUI.
As far as performance, as you can see in my original attachment, my system is by no means slow. My experience index was bottle necked at my SSD. As noted above, there is a huge performance difference when playing Diablo 3 on highest settings. I am assuming though that this is due to the Catalyst suite that doesn't yet support Win8, more to come on that.
Well I prefer more strenuous benchmarks. Based on my benchmarks there's NO performance improvements, see post #395, page 10: Winders 8
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