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Am 20.08.2012 19:56, schrieb Stephen
Davidson:
Bottom line, for me, Windows 8 is fine to use on my
tablet, but
there is no reason to use it on my workstation, unless they
force me to,
by dropping support for Windows 7, like they will, for XP, on
April 8th 2014.
I have a laptop/tablet pc that I use for drawing (it has a
Wacom pressure sensitive pen)
that runs on XP, but won't run Windows 7. I guess it will
have a limited life.
It is a shame, because I can't find any new tablets that
support pressure
sensitive pens. Most new tablets run on Android, which looks
like the model
for Windows 8. Android is great for non-business devices, but
that too is
geared for tablets.
Won't Microsoft Surface have a pressure sensitive pen? No idea
though how subtle it will be.
It will come in two versions, one with a lame ARM and one with an
i5, which sounds quite interesting.
And if it's not going to be MS, I expect quite a few other
manufacturers to offer something similar.
I think what the problem is that there is no money in selling
to the professional
video and entertainment market. Look what Apple did with
Final Cut Pro.
They turned it into a home user product, and ignored the pro
market completely.
Maybe it is just a big hint, from the universe, for me to
start a new career. ;)
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 6:56 AM, Stefan
Andersson <[email protected]>
wrote:
Maybe I
spoke too soon :) I felt a bit lost, so I'm back into Linux
now. Trying a bit newer distro (Ubuntu 12.04). I know it
can't run Softimage, but I don't use Softimage at home that
much anyhow.
It was a nice try, but it felt there were too many gremlins
under the hood that I had no idea of what they were up to.
Too many reboots and too many processes that started working
for no apparent reason, and popups, my god.... it felt like
using firefox without a adblocker. But besides that it was a
better experience that my last attempt which was with Vista.
I'm back home now. Hell did not freeze over, it's still warm
and cozy.
regards
stefan
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Andreas Bystrom <[email protected]>
wrote:
". So... I've installed Windows7 on my
workstation at home. And so far I'm really
impressed with the speed and the response from the
system. Softimage works a lot smoother on Windows7
than on CentOS 6.3."
hmm, it's not april.... did hell just freeze over?
actually the day alan jones writes something like
that will be the day hell truly freezes over..
on a serious note, for every single windows release
that's about to come out since win2k I've heard the
same exact thing "this will be terrible, I'm staying
with win xxxx forever" yet those same people somehow
upgraded throughout the years and found themselves
quite happy...
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at
6:55 PM, Stefan Andersson <[email protected]>
wrote:
It's not any better in the Linux Camp.
Everyone is moving towards tablet use. But
what boggles me is that... how can the
developers themselves stand it?
On a side note.
I've been using Linux for a long time
now, but got fed up with crappy wacom
drivers and the crippled paint
applications. So... I've installed
Windows7 on my workstation at home. And so
far I'm really impressed with the speed
and the response from the system.
Softimage works a lot smoother on Windows7
than on CentOS 6.3.
Anyhow, going to take a shower now
since I feel quite dirty.
And I think Windows 8 will be as Vista,
a "side-note". They are already talking
about Windows9.
regards
stefan
On Fri, Aug
17, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Sylvain Lebeau
<[email protected]>
wrote:
this makes me
think about Apple rumour to let
go the dev on the mac pros...
Seem's everybody is going nuts
on the mobile thing. And all
professional market get's
ignored!!
i wont be able to do Arnold
render regions on my f-ing
iphone!!!!!
wtf is going on with these
guys!?
sly
Friday, August 17, 2012 12:18 PM
My main Win 7 workstation has been really
acting flaky
lately. Microsoft
has just release
Windows 8 RTM, so
I was wondering if
anyone had tested
it out yet?
I
realize there are
plenty of opinions
on the whole Metro
interface, but I'm
just wondering if
it's stable and if
Softimage will run
under it.
I need
to take a weekend
and reformat this
machine & start
over anyway.
Thanks,
Paul
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