Actually, I was referring to any system with any OS. The credit goes to the SSD technology, not the OS.  If you want a marked, highly noticable improvement in speed on any hardware, old or new, an SSD is the most bang for the buck you can get. And speaking of bucks, it costs more now to get Win 8 than a quality SSD. The MS $40 bargain price is now over and done with, while SSD prices per GB continue to drop.

(and my SSD was a gift from a real friend, it cost me nothing)

I have to agree with reply 126.       

Doc, you have talent. That's hilarious. 

I do believe I may be your favorite subject....lol.

Edited. Thanks. 

Windows 8 is doomed!!!!!

http://money.cnn.com/2013/04/18/technology/enterprise/microsoft-earnings/index.html

Microsoft reported a quarterly profit Thursday that rose from year-ago results, buoyed by the first full quarter of Windows 8 sales.

The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant said operating income in its fiscal third-quarter rose 19% to $7.6 billion, or 72 cents per share, for the period ended March 31. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters forecast earnings of 68 cents per share.

Gotta be something wrong with the world when you can make money off a backwards operating system. 

For the record, that's 20.49 billion, not 2049. That revenue figure is from all MS operations and doesn't really reflect whether Win8 has helped or hurt that number.

 "the Windows division brought in revenues of $5.70 billion for the quarter, an increase of 23 percent for the same period a year ago."  That is to be expected during an OS release year, but I wonder how much of that was purchases of Windows 7 made to replace Win 8 on an OEM install. I also suspect there are a lot of unused copies of Win 8 out there that were picked up soley because it was cheap to do so. I wonder how sales have been since the price increase? Money is money to MS  shareholders though.

Well said Jafo. Good point. 

8 isn't a good desktop os? i'm using it on my desktop just fine. do i have a touchscreen monitor? nope. i do have a logitech touchpad that i use instead of a mouse these days. i can make the finger swipes and gestures just like a touchscreen would enable. 8 works like a charm here.

jafo, i respect your opinion on most things but not on this. it seems you're attempting to make those of us who like and use 8 that we are wrong in doing so.

also, i highly doubt kona has ever used 8 so why was the thread posted to begin with. wait! i know. it's just kona being kona again.

I have Windows 8 installed. Or did you forget that point? Yes I have used it more than once. 

rather Babya System.

nothing wrong with a flat look for me. i think the latest versions of ChromeOS look gorgeous for example.

but in Windows 8 it is done so half-assed, it's laughable. did they run out of time to create a matching icon theme? why do the desktop icon texts still have that dark dropshadow? what's that nonsense with the huge window borders (they are still too small for touch anyways)? why still keeping that scrollbar buttons, does anybody use those (that chevron is the ugliest thing i have seen since a while in a default os look)? if that should be touch-optimized why is there almost no padding on the notification area icons?

nah, this is just the beta version of Windows 9.