Ultrabook and Win8 - Good and bad

daflippers

Tue, 10/23/2012 - 08:35

In parallel to Abhishek's post I thought I'd ask how others are getting on with their Ultrabooks and Win8, good and bad.

General - I took the plunge and use the Ultrabook as my primary PC - it's the only way to really learn. The more i use it the more features I like in Win8 - I hated win8 when I first loaded it in a VM as I had to Google/Bing how to power down (Win+i) but with use it has become a positive experience. Boot times are wonderfully fast. The Ultrabook is sleek, fast and feature packed and the Intel tools are great. Microsoft Visual Studio is neat but don't get me talking about Microsoft customer service.....

What's missing at the moment - documentation is sketchy and things can be a steep learning curve which is why a good community helps. The Intel guys have pointed us here so let's use it.

What won't happen - Corporates will not move to Win8. It is too much of a leap for them. Many are only just moving from XP 32 to Win7 64 so I don't think they will move until Win9 or whatever it will be called. The technology jump is like moving from DOS to Windows 3.0 meaning it will take time for power users to adapt and IT to be sure it's safe. This isn't just 'not until SP2' because corporates have screens that have no touch and you really need touch. User pressure will eventually sway things but that will take time.

What will happen - Ultrabooks and tablets running Win8 need good apps that use the power of the devices so we need to make it happen.

If anyone's going to Swindon for the UK Sensor Technology Roadshow let me know and we can have a chat.

David

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Abhishek 81

Tue, 10/23/2012 - 12:30

I liked your suggestions

Abhishek Nandy

Murat Karaevli

Tue, 10/23/2012 - 15:03

I went to my workplace with Ultrabook field work. IT departments and employees asked too many questions about the Ultrabook and Windows 8. Because Ultrabook thin, fast and different.IT departments love battery life. Touch screen phones like, experience, and want to offer as a service to its customers. I think the companies will move faster than Windows 7 Windows8 upgrades. Many companies waiting touch experinces.

Abhishek 81

Wed, 10/24/2012 - 00:02

Keep Posting and experience the change...

Abhishek Nandy

Abhishek 81

Wed, 10/24/2012 - 00:04

As we post it will be very helpful to others to know what can every body expect from Ultrabook & Windows 8

Abhishek Nandy

Abhishek 81

Wed, 10/24/2012 - 00:06

Lets talk about Battery Longitivity....let's post how is it providing battery backup interms of our usage

Abhishek Nandy

Abhishek 81

Wed, 10/24/2012 - 00:12

One of the most importnat thing about Ultrabook is CULV(Consumer Ultra Light Voltage)

Abhishek Nandy

daflippers

Wed, 10/24/2012 - 00:13

Quote:

Murat Karaevli wrote:
I think the companies will move faster than Windows 7 Windows8 upgrades. Many companies waiting touch experinces.

Hi Murat,

Large corporations tend to lag well behind the technology. They stuck to NT4 for years with only a few moving to Win2k and then they moved to XP. Microsoft tried to EoL it but had to extend support for XP because the user base is so large. That user base is now moving to Win7 64 and they won't move to Win8 because it is too new and it only 'adds hurdles' for users in a multiscreen environment and/or anyone without touch.

If I'm wrong I'll buy a hat and eat it.

David

Abhishek 81

Wed, 10/24/2012 - 00:15

CULV as i am discovering helps Ultrabook to be thin and to have longer battery life..... as i know more i will posting just to share my knowledge.

Abhishek Nandy

daflippers

Wed, 10/24/2012 - 00:21

Hi Abhishek,

Any chance you can combine your thoughts into a single post rather than single line posts as it will clog up peoples email?

David

Abhishek 81

Wed, 10/24/2012 - 00:24

OK David,i will do the same from next time onwards..

Abhishek Nandy

Juan Ramon T.

Wed, 10/24/2012 - 01:29

Hi All,

In my opinion, Win8 on Ultrabook flies. Perhaps the most important thing is the battery duration. Is easier and faster then Win7 for users.
The unique problem that I have detected is that the gyroscope runs too slow.

Thanks

Murat Karaevli

Wed, 10/24/2012 - 03:50

Hi, for everybody i m sure about large size companies like shell, bp or total they all plan to move win8 and touch system, cloud etc;
Because of usability, collobration, mobility and next generation documentation is will be better on win8
multimedia; 3D animation, 3D models, 2D animations, transation, pixel shader effects etc will work native on win8...
Intel Parallel, Multithread perfect working on new CPU Data and media systems, We are loving virtualizing of data , we can display billion rows..
They all better on WinRT Hardware and Operations system much more better support our applications on WinRT

Corporations dream next generation displays, they have to protect customers and they dream get new customer by hi-tech solutions.

Reasons;
Winforms usabililty and collabration impossible for data systems,media systems editing % 70 , publishing for always have to convert another formats ... thats mean always quaility problem and disk size problems..Deployment is another big problem.
Web forms and HTML layout engines SUCK for developers %100 TIME Losing..
XP, Vista to much old and slow, Windows 7 is nice but its look like a Prototype of Windows8

Summary:
Companies looking new solutions, they have bored limitations. They need collaborative solution will work same properties on web, local and intranet. Maybe not today but in the near future developers will developing samples will be ready. All companies governments have to move WinRT and Win8 this is not extra cost this is cost saving operations for all.
Thanks.

Abhishek 81

Wed, 10/24/2012 - 03:52

Upgrading from Win 7 to Win8 will also be an issue,what can be done best is to provide Ultrabooks(experimentation basis) to the IT people and they first get the flow of it so that they can show BU people how to upgrade,possible solution.

Abhishek Nandy

Abhishek 81

Wed, 10/24/2012 - 05:57

People who r using Ultrabook how is performance of VMs in it.Is there any special feature that helps us working faster between physical macines and the Virtual ones?

Abhishek Nandy

Abhishek 81

Thu, 10/25/2012 - 09:54

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Abhishek Nandy

daflippers

Fri, 10/26/2012 - 00:55

It is a shame that people will post SPAM just about everywhere. I marked the post by 'ra i' as SPAM so hopefully it will disappear.

David

Bob Duffy (Intel)

Fri, 10/26/2012 - 08:07

Personally I really like WiDi, but want to see it exposed to the Windows 8 UI side. Smart connect is also cool and I hope more apps make use of it. But my favorite features are weight , performance, and modern UI using touch and sensors

daflippers

Sat, 10/27/2012 - 08:10

Ultrabooks are just so cool but I found a little issue. Because the orientation sensor is in the base and not the screen if you hold the base as if it was the screen and turn it into portrait mode the screen will rotate. Then move the base to be horizontal from the top of the portrait and now the screen remains in portrait mode. Even changing setting in screen res on desktop doesn't resolve it because it flips back when you close the settings window. To resolve hold the base so you can read the keyboard and it flips back.

This almost foxed me after I demonstrated a feature by moving the Ultrabook in 3D space.

David

Bob Duffy (Intel)

Tue, 10/30/2012 - 11:42

Good point about sensor location. I found Y & Z swapped in clamsell mode.. Going to add an axix switcher to my app,so user can configure preference

Alican Y.

Wed, 10/31/2012 - 14:54

Accelerometer sensors and touch screen performance is very nice
Ultrabook and Windows 8 sensor applications prepared our clients, we are doing live tests.
Our client were using Windows XP Operation system.
Windows 8 dramatically different interface that will take time to learn but this new generation interface much more better using by accelerometer and much more clean than Windows XP.
Fast and clear interface giving much more advantage. Ultrabook, Accelerometer sensor performance perfect answering all touch.
Your application interface clear cant see anything, JUST CLEAR WINDOW but all operations working: Pan, Move, Save, Close, Switch another window by finger...
Result:
They dont want continue Windows XP, Windows 8 better an operation system
They dont want use more desktop, Ultrabook better than desktop

Result Question:
When will you can complete our application for Ultrabook and Touch ?

Thanks Accelerometer, Thanks Intel Ultrabook, Thanks Windows 8
We are better developer now..

Maikel Cordeiro

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 10:29

What do you think about Windows 8 for pro users?

I think that are many of softwares written for Win32 and users need that. How can we do fast transition for those users?

I like Windows 8 very much, but I don't know how to put W8 for my users.

Rumnha

Tue, 02/26/2013 - 20:14

The Good - Ultrabook sensors and sensor ready OS and API, Wireless technologies (Bluetooth, WiFi, WiDi, NFC etc. - a few of them are new)

The Bad - Not all applications are windows 8 (touch and other sensors) ready. My windows 8 frequently crashes due to driver issues of the applications for which I have no option and they are not ready for windows 8.

Thanks, Rumnha

PONRAM

Sun, 04/21/2013 - 20:33

reliability foremost important than features

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