More Than 3 Out of 4 Enthusiasts Reject Windows 8

I am not recommending the laptop but making a different point germane to this thread. I tried and returned the laptop which had a cheap plastic feel, buggy touchpad and misaligned keyboard. Frankly I'm shocked it calls itself Asus.

whs said:

gregrocker said:

The Asus Core i5 budget ($399) laptop offered at BestBuy over Easter weekend with Win8 is now on sale for the same price at Staples with Win7.

Nice, except it os out of stock at Staples. Shows how desperate people are for a Windows 7 laptop.

Or the fact that it's a cheap laptop. In which case it has nothing to do with what OS it has

gregrocker said:

I am not recommending the laptop but making a different point germane to this thread. I tried and returned the laptop which had a cheap plastic feel, buggy touchpad and misaligned keyboard. Frankly I'm shocked it calls itself Asus.

It's a better deal with 7 already on it - saves having to shell out to buy a copy of 7.

I actually shrank Win8 to install Win7 in a Dual Boot and wasn't that impressed with performance for a Core i5 either, possibly due to only 4gb RAM which can be doubled.

I especially wanted to compare the claim that Asus optimized Win8 to run better so installed a third Multi Boot of a Win8 clean install which as per usual performed better than the factory preinstall.

If the touchpad was enabled the cursor jumped around uncontrollably which was only remedied by a notebook mouse. The keyboard felt chintzy and space bar didn't work right. Some commenting on the Staples version report similar: http://www.staples.com/Asus-K55A-BI5...product_982655

I probably should have kept it longer since Best Buy has a generous 15 day full refund return policy but realized quickly I wouldn't be keeping this or even passing it on to anyone I care about, then become concerned it would get scratched or banged and void my refund.

I don't think it is the ram. This desktop has only 2gb.

Everything works great.

Yeah the lappy I'm using only has 1gb and an old Celeron and runs plenty fast, but on 32 bit.