W500 and Windows 8?

[Solom01]

I love battery life. Windows 8 on the 500 is definitely not a negative in regards to battery.

Thanks, in that case I'll give it a go.

[{StatuSChecKa}]

You wont regret it. You will not even think about Windows 7 on your tablet..

[{StatuSChecKa}]

Mad kudos to the person who figures out how to widen the scroll bars in Windows 8.

[mrboingy]

Just been looking at vids of Win8 on W500 and it looks superb. Can't believe how fast it is, browsing and menu system-wise.

I'm now regretting getting the A500 using HC3.2... god, what a painful experience...

Anyway, has anyone done anything INTERESTING with Win8 on the tablet yet?

Everyone just seems to browse the web.

Has anyone installed any Windows programs? Like Office 2003? Or played any xvids??????

[jnjroach]

I've installed Office 2010 Pro Plus and Lync 2010 as well as 7zip on my HP Slate 500 running Windows 8....

[{StatuSChecKa}]

Boingy I have not installed anything crazy yet.
This metro UI scrolls just as smooth as the pages on an iPad The pre-installed test apps are hella cool and useful too. I use STOCKS and WEATHER every day. PaintPlay is neat too and has 4 points of touch. I played TicTacToe on it with my GF.
I have found myself using XP compatibility mode with some programs. I.E. Foxxit Reader.
BTW I installed DirectTv2PC and it is not the smoothest playback, not sure if maybe its just compatibility, but it worked great on Windows 7. It uses quite a bit of resources. (It streams my DirectTv DVR to a PC via WiFi.)

[mrboingy]

HP Slate 500?!?! Ahh, you're the one who bought it! hahaha

Good job on installing Office 2010... I'm a bit old school (ie pre-ribbbon).

Have either of you outputted to an external screen? If so, can you specify the output resolution?

I actually bought the A500 because I wanted to attach a kb+mouse (which is do-able) and use remote desktop and output to a screen.

Works almost quite well except you can't specify the output resolution... so running 1280x800 on a 23" monitor is kinda silly.

StatusChecka - can you install xvid codec and play xvids? mp3s? Please install Office 2003 and see how fast it is! I know jnjroach has done Office 2010 but his tablet is a different one.

Can you install bittorrent software and use that?

(thing is, I'm not even sure why I'm asking cos theoretically, it's Win8 so all these things should be simple.... but apart from jnjroach, I've not heard of anyone doing ANYTHING that's even remotely interesting.... if I see another video on youtube of someone scrolling an internet page or looking at the weather.....)

[postPCera]

Just picked up my W500 today and it's halfway through installing Win8 Dev 64 from DVD, don't know why but it won't boot from my 8Gb usb sandisk cruzer??? that I 'thought' I'd done all the Win 7 Usb creator thing on? maybe me, maybe the odd U3/CD thing on the cruzer?

Has there been a sudden rush on these things? I had to try half a dozen shops before I found a branch of Comet that had one left in stock.

Silly question: I can see a hdmi connector on the side, is there any way I can output to a normal monitor (via/dvi)?

This may come back and bite me... I didn't even boot into Win7 as there's a recovery DVD in the box, that'll get me back to factory status... won't it???

[Wiz33]

The recovery CD should do the job if you ever need it back to Win7. You can get a HDMI to DVI adapter. There's plenty available. Look around and you should be able to get one for under US$10.

[Andrew Miller]

can someone post the step by step process for us novice users, including backing up/creating a recovery disk so we cab get back to win 7 if necessary. i have a external dvd drive so i will prob boot from that unless some major benifit to usb. also will we be able to update to later versions(true beta then eventually the release version)? I just dont want to have to format and install for beta and then again for the final release.