Windows 8, good for internet marketing or not so good?

The new Windows 8 is set to launch this Friday the 26th and I am curious if any IMers plan to upgrade.

If you haven't really checked Windows 8 out yet, this video review pretty much breaks it down to where you can see what it's all about.

Windows 8 Review - Walt Mossberg - Personal Technology - AllThingsD

Personally, I can't say I am too happy about how drastic the changes are. From the very first mainstream operating systems that Microsoft built there has always been a sense of continuity between the new and the old. There were differences and improvements but what I was used to was essentially still in the right places. I guess all in all, from a PC repair business owner's perspective, this isn't going to aid me in selling new systems like I hoped it would. To be honest, I hadn't really checked into 8 until just recently to see how different it was going to be.

The learning curve and ability to service tablets, phones and more laptops is increasingly seeming like a priority for my main business and it's future. Desktops seem like they may be going the way of the dodo for real. Even PC gaming seems to be leaning away from high powered desktops with lots of expensive parts to be sold and installed by guys like me, which is where most of my money has been made.

Console gaming seems to be the way of the future. It will be sad to see that era go and a lot of companies that build PC specific parts will go with it if it happens. Not to say it is set in stone or right around the corner, just that when I take a look around at all the laptops I now service and then see this new Windows 8 roll into the picture, the times they are a changin'. 8 out of 10 laptops that come through my shop cannot run much at once. Even the quad cores have their limits and with a laptop, you really can't upgrade much.

Oddly though, in my experience, a lot of people still use their laptop in a stationary setting and buy an external keyboard and mouse. I couldn't tell you how many times I have setup an external screen, mouse and keyboard to run off a laptop where the customer's desktop used to be. It hasn't ever made any sense to me. Laptops are less efficient, prone to more problems and on the price paid/performance scale, desktops still win. To each their own though, I think I will always prefer a desktop for getting the majority of my work done. I have a few laptops and they do not provide the mindset or the convenience needed to really get down to work when building a new website or designing the boatloads of graphics and videos I create.

From an internet marketing perspective, I am definitely not sold on App style programs and touch screens being useful for building websites and designing graphics. The precision of a mouse is crucial to graphic design, especially in a program like Photoshop. I have used plenty of touch screen all in one PCs, tablets, phones etc but they all seem a little clunky and in need of big buttons and simple movements on screen. Perhaps it is just a fear of change but right now, I really don't see the touch style being very useful for this business and fitting into the way many of us have developed our own productivity, content creation and overall process from idea to online market.

Not sure this thread will go anywhere but I am curious if any of you are already using a tablet to create. It seems to me the tablet style is more useful for just checking things, looking at things or making minor changes. The time it takes to create websites, products and graphics depends greatly on your system and it's speed. Especially if you're using big resource hogging programs like Photoshop, 3D environments, Dreamweaver, After Effects, Power Point, Illustrator, etc etc etc. Just video creation alone needs a lot of power for efficient rendering and editing.

I just don't see it being better with touch style.

Thoughts?