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[+Mephistopheles]

20 days from now the Windows 8 Consumer Preview is upon us. Most of us are going to run it. The question is: How are you going to run it? In a VM? Or are you hardcore enough to run it as primary OS? Vote away.

Personally I'm going to run Windows 8 Consumer Preview as secondary OS on my secondary machine - a 4-year-old ThinkPad T61.

[Shaun]

Been putting of a reinstall of Windows for a while now. I'll give this preview a go and if I don't like it re install windows 7

[MarkusDarkus]

I'll be running it in a VM on a separate monitor.

[SHoTTa35]

I'll be running it on my laptop in my sig (Thinkpad T410s) with SSD to see how it'll run when it finally comes out (yes i know it's still beta!) I always do full installs though.

I'll probably run it on a test/demo machine at work first though as that's where i'll be when it comes out anyways

[Dot Matrix]

I'll be running it as my primary OS on both my notebook computers. Still debating if I wanna go through the hassle of installing it to my main desktop, but I doubt I will.

[Co-ords]

NOT!

[Daedroth]

Virtual machine.

[XMac]

I'm gonna take a spare 160GB hard drive I have lying around here and install it on that. If I like it, I'll wait till the RTM and istall it on my primary HD.

[Osiris]

Will give it an install on the trust Dell XT Tablet and see how all this Metro touch business really goes. Will likely give an install on desktop virtual machine. That will depend on impressions from the tablet though, might just wait till its out for a desktop install...not really seeing anything getting me excited atm, hopefully in 20 odd days though

Id say the real question is does anyone miss the old days where you use to have to try to get into the beta...or wait for the latest leak to hit the web etc..I guess it was a bit more limited back in the day when everyone didnt have highspeed net and now today MS just hands it out like candy memories

[marc2003]

i'm too apprehensive about metro to use it as my primary OS so i'm going for a dual boot.

[giantpotato]

Secondary OS on my secondary PC (Tablet PC). If it has most of the kinks worked out compared to the DP, I might switch it to the primary OS on that PC. In the DP my brightness controls, screen rotate button and fingerprint reader were not working. Also, Starcraft II was 'unplayable' because of the window-switch popup when the cursor is moved to the left of the screen. I hope they have an option to disable that for non-metro fullscreen apps.

[+Vykranth]

I have just Triple-R'ed my workstation at work and I am happy with the configuration. I am going to be prudent and use a VM.

[winlonghorn]

Mephistopheles, on 09 February 2012 - 14:19, said:

20 days from now the Windows 8 Consumer Preview is upon us. Most of us are going to run it. The question is: How are you going to run it? In a VM? Or are you hardcore enough to run it as primary OS? Vote away.

Personally I'm going to run Windows 8 Consumer Preview as secondary OS on my secondary machine - a 4-year-old ThinkPad T61.

As a primary OS on my primary machine if it is as stable as Windows 7 was at this point in development.

[freak180]

I'm going to install in on top of the 3 windows 7 machines I have in my computer lab as well as install it as primary on my laptop.

[Haggis]

On VM running the developer preview right now, not sure what i think of it yet