well to be fair i still use MS windows but i HATE 8.1 and it runs like shit
Windows 8.1 runs great for me. They made a number of small under-the-hood changes since Windows 7 that when combined end up being more than a sum of their parts. It's actually a little bit painful for me going back to Windows 7 now because it all seems so choppy and dated.
i never used chrome OS and no interest in doing so i hate google even more than MS
i will never use cloud based anything i don't trust it and i never will
i don't like the idea of MS trying to copy apple and google with this cloud stuff ,metro and other things the only good thing they have copied from apple is the implementation of actual brick and mortar stores where you can actually get free support, it's the only thing this company has done right
probably since win7
I do agree about "the cloud" idea. I'm not sure why there is such a huge push to go back to dumb terminals reliant on a central servers like in the 60's (approximate timeframe, of course).
And yeah, the stores were certainly a long time coming.
and google chrome runs like shit on win8.1, but google probably runs like shit on 7 now too i bet,
i noticed when i was running it on win7 that it had gotten significantly worse and slower before i switched to brand new 8.1 machine and not just chrome but pretty much all browsers since about 2011 2012 have gotten much much slower and much worse performance with each"update" seems like performance continues to significantly decline with each new version update that is forcefully updated automatically i cant even use FF anymore ,
i dont what they are doig but i suspect they are putting in more and more spyware to the point it is really seriously affecting performance firefox is the worst one and chrome has been declining really bad now as well though
i remember being able to have 5 windows open with 60 tabs in each window open and multiple browsers
open at once and having no problems no slowdown nothing
now i have like 20 to 30 tabs open in one window and its crashing slowing down and all kinds of problems
FF is slow its not even useable for me and chrome is not what it used to be
You seem convinced that it's tracking and spyware that is making things run poorly. Trust me, it is wayyyyy easier to track/log someone's activity than it is to actually render a webpage. The slowdowns you are experiencing are probably due to the advancements of web technologies that are now able to perform fairly advanced tasks, requiring more resources. There have been steps taken to reduce the performance iompact from this - FireFox, for example, stops actively rendering a page when you switch away from the current tab.
Pixels are always awesome but they're damned expensive (at least for me).
Yeah, but man, that build quality and display! So awesome. If only Windows could be shoehorned onto the damn things, I would totally buy one (and complain about an empty bank account after). Seriously, it puts so many ultrabooks to shame.