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Old 07-31-2012 at 12:09 PM   #16
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No. I'm implying that cool = touch screen laptop
touch screen laptop = large screen tablet

How useless would using Win7 with a touch screen be?
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Is there even any real reason to upgrade from Windows 7? I tried the developer preview of Windows 8 a while back, and it seemed like mostly eye-candy (with that dumbass windows wall thing instead of a desktop) with a few very minor fixes to functionality (pause-able file transfer. etc)

Unless there are major changes to the core OS, what's the point?
I believe Windows 8 is faster than Windows 7, but that advantage will be offset by the time wasted switching between metro and desktop.
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No. I'm implying that cool = touch screen laptop
Sure. We can go with that.
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