How are you going to run the Windows 8 Consumer Preview?

[Shaun N.]

How is it? I was debating on picking one of these up for my wife for her classes. Does it support pen input?

I switched from a Fujitsu TH700 which had a Core i3 CPU, Intel graphics, 8GB's of RAM and while the Acer is slower I find it suits my needs very well. I am able to surf, do email, watch Netflix, Amazon Instant videos, stream from my home server all without any significant decrease in usability even with max CPU set at 30% to conserve battery. For a test I opened the backup for my old laptop on my home server over wifi and it worked fine. Only thing you will need to watch is the battery life, gets around 5 hours of constant use with tweaked power saving options.

I dont use a pen with it but it will support a capacitive stylus but has no digitizer so wont disable the touchscreen when using it. For casual use it will work well, I think. With Windows 8 I think it will be even better and numerous videos on youtube seem to confirm that.

You could probably take this to PM. Or even create its own thread.

[firey]

Install on Virtual Machine. Not a fan of Metro in any way, but the only way people will actually listen to my opinions is if I install it, and use it and base my opinion on the Public Beta instead of the dev preview.

[subcld]

As primary OS on my secondary machine

[tagerd0g]

primary OS on a spare PC

[Pink Floyd Veteran]

I am willing to install it on an old Dell laptop that I only use to work on my taxes once a year because there is no OSX version

[The_Decimator]

Dual boot it on a laptop & use it as the only OS on an x86 tablet.

EDIT: W00t 700th post!

[Glassed Silver]

Pretty sure I'll run it as VM on my primary Mac and as second setup on my netbook (EeePC 1000h) :)

Glassed Silver:ios