I'm baffled.

So you have to do a little work to learn how to use it. Its not the end of the world.

Some basic problems, but don't know whether its with the concept or the execution.
As I'm definitely NOT a techie, that's about as far as I can go.

That company has gone seriously downhill the last few years. It's now my official policy to purchase nothing from HP that isn't a printer. They make Dell and Acer look good.

oh shit its going nuts later.

that sucker screams too. The laptop, not the boss.


His doesn't have a touch screen but he does have a flat panel secondary monitor that is touch screen he runs with it in his office.

However, to compare oranges to oranges, there is nothin mid-priced about his laptop.

I am fine with it. No problems so far.

Yeah, I don't recommend getting a Windows 8 unless it is touch screen.
Otherwise, it is mostly a waste. It still has the standard Windows...

I mean, the one I have I was able to customize the tiles quite a bit so it is ok.

I can't see myself going to a Mac(I have an old iMac). Their indexing method irks me, and I don't really see any changes coming from one version of their OS to another.

I went to an old mac and am much happier than I was with Windows. The newer Mac operating systems are too big and brassy for me. The old computers that just do what I want to do, and well, just DO it are the way to go. I don't need a bunch of new complicated features that hog up my bandwidth. I hope Apple gets smart and supports the customer base that made it successful in the first place.


IF IT WORKS DONT FIX IT!!!

I agree Mac has gone 'piggish.' But they are still better than Windows.

But, we were told by a few people not to get Windows 8 unless you have a touch-screen computer as well.

It was working fine until the summer of 2011, when it mysteriously just ceased to function well. It's never been the same since; even after reinstalling the O.S. it was never quite working all that well. I discovered(or rather, rediscovered), Ubuntu last year and I've never gone back to Windows since.

XP is still the most used because it is stable. I can defnitely say the same of Win7, although I was skeptical at first. The biggest problems I have with Win7 are 1) getting impatient with venodors to come out with 64-bit Win7 compatible versions; and 2) Forgetting to check the available disk space for the automated full backup that happens overnight on Sunday. Other than those two tings, I love it.

There will be no Win8 on one of my machines. Ever. It seems they took three steps backward and four steps sideways to create it.

My son got a new machine with Win8 because he uses smart phones and likes the pre-school lcon look they adopted for Win8. I can't even look at it without feeling neurons committing mass suicide out of terror and hearing the screams of millions of other people suffering the same attrocity.

I hope Win8 gets tucked away in the "almost ran" closet along with Microsoft Bob.

I won't own anything besides Mac. I'm forced to work with others, but I don't need them in my house.

And, I avoid Best Buy and those annoying little twerps in the blue shirts. I go there to 'touch' things before I buy them from somewhere else. The husband runs block to keep the blue shirts away from me since I almost punched one of them in the face a few months ago. I'm a near 50 year old woman that the little punk thought was computer illiterate. Dumbass.

Return it and get a Mac.