Windows 8 on a dual screen 10 point multi touch and Multi tasking Metro on the Acer Iconia i5 tablet

My Windows 8 testing was briefly put on a 12 hour hiatus ... well OK 12 hours of Gears Of War 3 gaming from last midnights launch .... but more on that later back to the serious stuff of messing with Windows 8 ... the preview ...


Windows 8 promises enhanced  multi monitor support, but how will it exploit multi touch screens? Well the prospects look good from my first tests using the Acer Iconia. Installation was swift and easy and the Iconia handles the 64 bit flavour of Windows 8. However the thing with dual Screen tablets is you have to flip the orientation of one screen, set the desktop to extended  mode and most importantly go into the tablet settings and assign each of the screens as a touchscreen, which is made a lot easier by using an external Keyboard, as you need to hit enter to assign each screen is a touch screen. This of course also gave me the chance to set the Iconia into Portrait mode something the custom Acer Windows 7 install did not allow. So having done all this you should have a dual 14.inch  tablet that looks like this:(remember to set the extended desktop).

and so let us start with some browsing :  which looks something  like this :

and in use this is how we roll : note you will see in the video I can use all 10 fingers ! So the Piano , and Painting Apps , as well as typing with the keyboard really shine on the Iconia , most Windows tablets are limited to 2 point touch  ,though in the case of the Lenovo X220T , you have 2 finger touch , 5 finger recognition and the pen input which is arguably more useful on a tablet than having 20 point touch across two 14 inch screens.....

there is always the standard landscape dual screen mode , which you can see in the picture and video below .

these videos show 10 point touch working in Windows 8 , type or play the piano with all your digits ..., check out the speed of the OS , multitasking , and multiple app usage

The second video demonstration explores possible uses of a having a super fast touch based OS with 10 point touch on dual 14 inch screens  : vital uses like playing 2 games at once ,  playing your  own soundtrack accompaniment silent film era style  using the Piano App on Screen 2  to Mass Effect 2 which I am playing with Gaikai on screen 1 

Even in this early state Windows 8 is  fun to mess around with on your dual screen tablet , as you can see ,and this is just the preview , roll on the Beta..


No tablet comes close to the speed of the touch interface on the Iconia ,  it seems Microsoft could easily launch a Courier style tablet , definitely next year as the software and hardware are progressing that way ... so thegameveda predicts there WILL be a Microsoft branded tablet sometime next year , a full Windows 8 tablet , with the successor to i5 or i7  and Intel HD 3000 , with which Microsoft could finally dent Apples rise , come on Bill ...you know Steve would ... wait he probably is already ....if my spies on board the Cupertino UFO are to be believed.....

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