03-11-2013, 02:11 PM
I am currently in the process of buying a new PC graphics workstation. I usually see the time to upgrade when I see laptops starting to equal\surpass my desktop specs, at 500$. (I'm going with PC because Mac platforms are simply too rich for my blood at the moment.)
Most of the hardware list for the new rig is almost finalized, maybe a few parts needs tweaking but overall the big stuff is decided.
One game that actually helped me while putting together the spec list is Diablo 2. If there's one thing I learned and learned well from that game, is how to min\max like a good munchkin.
When I came to the OS part, it's funny that the store website that I am going to buy it from, has the default listing of Windows 7. Sure you can pick Win 8, but you have to click on an 'expand list' button.
For good reason, I think. I like tablets, though for my use it has to be with a stylus or preferably pen input natively supported. (Despite what the late Steve Jobs says, it is not a failure when something has\needs a stylus. Maybe on a Newton or an Iphone. But the Sumerians were not stupid when they started using stylus on their clay tablets.) I like laptops. Desktop platforms will not go away anytime soon.
The laptop did not replace the desktop, anymore than the tablet will replace the laptop and desktop. Different configurations for different usage and styles, and each can compliment the others.
I wanted to like Win 8. I really do. I think it's fine on a tablet style, or a touch screen all in one style PCs. I hope MS continues to pursue and improve native pen support, simply because of my bias as a Wacom pen tablet user. Even though I now use a pen tablet instead of a mouse 95% of the time, I still have my mouse around. And anytime an OS wants to be less of a hog and trim the bloat fat, I'm all for it. (Hell if MS experiments on the Surface PRO is improved, there might be a viable competition against a Wacom Cintiq. Monopoly is never a good thing, especially in a niche market. And I'm saying this as a user of Wacom products.)
But Win 8 on a regular, non touch screen desktop, is assbutt. Win 8 on a workstation desktop, is diarrhea assbutt. What pisses me off even more is that there is a good OS under Metro, which IMO is the large source of assbutt situation.
Win 8 on a desktop, I hope you will be happy when you meet your new friends at the Island of MS-fit Toys. Win ME, MS BoB, the Zune, will love to have a new addition to their gang. Oh you'll have lot's of fun there, there's a never ending fountain of New Coke, and Crystal Pepsi. You just choose which one you want, and the fountain will give you the one you didn't. MAGIC!
10 bucks says Win9 will remove or make Metro an 'optional' display style. Because if things continue the way they are, M$ will really cripple the desktop market. For themselves. Unfortunately any glee I have of watching arrogant dinosaurs flailing about is tempered by the fact that the dinosaur is still tied to a lot of the programs I use.
Modern Tech. Gotta love it when it's run by the 'Smartest Guys in The Room' who -tells- me what I want and need.
Most of the hardware list for the new rig is almost finalized, maybe a few parts needs tweaking but overall the big stuff is decided.
One game that actually helped me while putting together the spec list is Diablo 2. If there's one thing I learned and learned well from that game, is how to min\max like a good munchkin.
When I came to the OS part, it's funny that the store website that I am going to buy it from, has the default listing of Windows 7. Sure you can pick Win 8, but you have to click on an 'expand list' button.
For good reason, I think. I like tablets, though for my use it has to be with a stylus or preferably pen input natively supported. (Despite what the late Steve Jobs says, it is not a failure when something has\needs a stylus. Maybe on a Newton or an Iphone. But the Sumerians were not stupid when they started using stylus on their clay tablets.) I like laptops. Desktop platforms will not go away anytime soon.
The laptop did not replace the desktop, anymore than the tablet will replace the laptop and desktop. Different configurations for different usage and styles, and each can compliment the others.
I wanted to like Win 8. I really do. I think it's fine on a tablet style, or a touch screen all in one style PCs. I hope MS continues to pursue and improve native pen support, simply because of my bias as a Wacom pen tablet user. Even though I now use a pen tablet instead of a mouse 95% of the time, I still have my mouse around. And anytime an OS wants to be less of a hog and trim the bloat fat, I'm all for it. (Hell if MS experiments on the Surface PRO is improved, there might be a viable competition against a Wacom Cintiq. Monopoly is never a good thing, especially in a niche market. And I'm saying this as a user of Wacom products.)
But Win 8 on a regular, non touch screen desktop, is assbutt. Win 8 on a workstation desktop, is diarrhea assbutt. What pisses me off even more is that there is a good OS under Metro, which IMO is the large source of assbutt situation.
Win 8 on a desktop, I hope you will be happy when you meet your new friends at the Island of MS-fit Toys. Win ME, MS BoB, the Zune, will love to have a new addition to their gang. Oh you'll have lot's of fun there, there's a never ending fountain of New Coke, and Crystal Pepsi. You just choose which one you want, and the fountain will give you the one you didn't. MAGIC!
10 bucks says Win9 will remove or make Metro an 'optional' display style. Because if things continue the way they are, M$ will really cripple the desktop market. For themselves. Unfortunately any glee I have of watching arrogant dinosaurs flailing about is tempered by the fact that the dinosaur is still tied to a lot of the programs I use.
Modern Tech. Gotta love it when it's run by the 'Smartest Guys in The Room' who -tells- me what I want and need.