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I got this Asus IPS touchscreen laptop last November, and I really love it (aside from the keyboard sometimes not registering keystrokes). HV walked me through installing an SSD on it, and it's pretty much blazing fast now and I can't fathom going back to my old Toshiba.

However, sometimes I feel like I'm not utilizing it to its full potential, because I never use the touch screen. It's Windows 8, and yeah, everybody hates Windows 8, but some of the recent updates have improved certain features, and it isn't as horrible and non-user-friendly as it once was. I installed Stardock Start8 on it which brings back the old Windows toolbar and since doing that, I've basically used it 99.9% of the time like i did with Windows 7 -- I don't use any touchscreen gestures, any Windows 8 apps, nothing.

Maybe it's my OCD but sometimes I almost feel guilty, like there are certain Win8 apps and shortcuts I could be using but am too ignorant/stubborn to try to grow accustomed to. So, I'm wondering if anyone else here uses a touchscreen interface on their laptop (or, more specifically, if they have Windows 8) and, if so, whether they do find it helpful for anything?

I thought I would at least use it to swipe up and down on web pages while reading text, but honestly, the angle the screen is at makes it kind of annoying when i have to reach my arm up from resting on the keyboard to swipe the screen. It's almost more fluid to just use the built-in mouse trackpad on the laptop rather than lift my finger up to the screen and swipe at it; it's not a really comfortable angle, either, so if you have your arm just hanging there flipping up and down pages, it's going to fall asleep on you.

But yeah, I guess I was looking to see if anyone had any success stories regarding Win8 and, if so, whether they have specific apps or shortcuts they recommend. I tried out the new YouTube app today and it's kind of cool, but, again, I feel it's quicker to simply open the desktop Chrome browser and load youtube.com rather than side swipe into an app. If I want to copy video links and paste them into a Chrome tab I have to swipe back and forth... it just seems like a hassle. :shrugs:

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Youre doing ok, if you want to stay out of the Metro interface and you still use it pretty fast with touchscreen, is ok. Installing the SSD as the boot-drive was a very good move, everything is blazing fast, last year I won an Intel one.

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