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Ill talk about the actual, physical product first, then about the it, itself.
I was taken a little bit aback at first because the cd basically just comes in a cd sleeve. I was expecting something like the dvd boxes that you get with movies since all the pictures of Windows DVD's (and the windows 7 one that I bought a while back) all came in them. It's not really a negative, but it was slightly sketchy.
As for the software itself, anyone that really has that big of a problem with it is silly. Overall the OS itself is noticeably faster in a number of ways. Startup, shutdown, a slight overall speedup in certain things. All three of those speedups are exacerbated by having an SSD, so in my opinion, this is the best version of the OS to have an SSD with. A couple small things that aren't specific to Win8 (I had my friend on Win7 try them) but if you do ctrl+shift+escape (task manager) there is a noticeable delay of 3 or 4 seconds that doesnt exist if you set the options for the taskbar to minimize to the taskbar and try again). There is also a weird delay when opening a new file explorer window from the taskbar that doesn't exist if you instead use win+e. The File explorer thing especially doesnt make any sense to me why it would be noticeably faster.
To tell the people that complain about the common things to complain about with win8 that they are stupid:
- No Start menu: You are just being resistive to change. Press the windows key, or do what you always did and flick your mouse to the bottom left and click (keyboard is honesty easier). You want firefox, type "f" for me firefox is the first one, but I could see it not being so, so maybe type "i", press enter. Lets try that again at a faster speed. Win, f, enter. It pops up a second later. Windows 8 is really good at that sort of thing. You want to change your mouse settings? Instead of win key, do Win+W, type the first couple letters of "mouse", press enter. Done. You're purposefully slowing yourself down by UI by not doing it this way.
- Metro apps and start screen. The start screen is just a full screened version (with better search) of the startmenu that always was too small because you had to scroll through it. So again, you're being resistive to change for nothing. "Metro apps are fullscreened and annoying" DONT USE THEM. You are not forced to use Metro for anything. You can download apps to not put you in the startscreen when you boot, you can download apps to run metro apps in windows, you can already right click on where the start menu was to get to a lot of the former start men settings items and more, you can download an application that adds startup/shutdown options to that menu (not that I startup and shutdown on purpose more than once a month.Sleep/hibernate is all I do in that regard.
And that's really all there is to complain about. It is honestly a better overall experience. The only reason I'm giving it a 4, is because I didn't get a legit case for my dvd which sort of miffs me, and I feel like Microsoft could have put more effort into making more in depth settings for the metro apps. I personally rarely use any, but I would probably use some of them more (like the music one, and the email one) if I had more control over how they worked and what they did.
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