Windows 8 or 7. Which would you choose?
Hi, all. My current Toshiba laptop is getting a little long in the tooth and runs WinXP3. I don't know much about the newer operating systems so I'd like to hear from any of you tech savvy folks about...
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GoPackGo wrote:
Because Win 8 is optimized for a touch screen environment but the PC manufacturers have used Win 8 on non-touch screen computers, such as my HP ! ...
I see this posted on this and other forums all the time but I disagree that the Win 8 interface is "optimized" for touch and challenge anyone making this statement to tell me what is easier or "optimized" while using Win 8 with touch. I have used Win 8/8.1 on systems with mouse/keyboard and systems that were touch only and while the Win 8 touch interface is usable on a touch only device (in my case a tablet) it is far from optimized and I find pretty much everything easier to do on my Win 8 systems using a mouse/keyboard then on my tablet that is touch only.
I'd say that the Win 8 was designed to be used either with mouse/keyboard or touch (or both combined) but there's no way it is optimized for touch.
