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Yep, it's not for most. I've been big on tablets since even before Apple invented them.

This is what I wrote about Win 8 a year ago.
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I loaded it on to my HP Slate 500 - it's looking pretty good. Seems that Redmond has found a way to transition a real OS onto the fast-becoming ubiquitous capacitive touch-screened tablets. --you know, where the only pointing device is a fat finger.

Really cool picture passcode; nice clean graphics; fast, less memory needs..

The on-screen keyboards are sharp, with nice feedback, but the split-keys and TIP take up too much real estate.

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That still holds. The bulk of changes are geared towards tablets/touch devices.

I also have no desire to 'upgrade' my computers to Win8. ...not even my tablets.

The Hardware, however... that Surface machine is very nice. --Good work Red-west.
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