Comment Re:It isn't Windows 8 I find to be the barrier... (Score 2) 269
It's obviously designed to be a touch interface and using it with mouse input can be very frustrating. I have been shopping for a basic laptop and I see this over and over on customer reviews when I look at models that ship with Win8 now. They usually go something like "Great laptop. But Windows 8 is difficult/horrible/doesn't belong and you can't downgrade this version. I wish I had gotten one with Windows 7". I totally understand that feeling as I felt the same when I tried Windows 8 on my existing laptop. It seemed like it would be a nice touch interface, but that became extremely annoying since I didn't have a touch screen and using the mouse to do the "touch screen stuff" can be cumbersome and is not intuitive at all. You get used to it after a while, but I think it would remain annoying to most people and seems to reduce productivity.