When connecting to shares or entering product keys for Office the pen and onscreen keyboard worked great. In both cases I’ve found them to be far better than I expected. The only difference is that in Windows 8, you have to click the Control Panel tile, More Settings button, in the Metro UI as it’s not available from the Start menu any more.Īs I still did not have a keyboard or mouse connected to the ASUS EP121, I was able to do all the operations with either the on screen keyboard or the pen. The process was exactly the same as it’s been in Vista and Windows 7. Just to make my life fun, I decided to join the machine to my domain after getting the initial OS installed. All the devices on the machine were recognized and there was no need to download any drivers. The new setup experience went smooth and I loved how I could use the pen or on screen keyboard for entering the machine account as well as setting up the wireless network. Make the lawyers happy by reading this carefully. Everything worked great and I have to give major kudos to the Microsoft lawyers for letting the first sentence in the EULA say
When installing Windows 7 on this same machine I had to have a USB hub plugged in to get my mouse, keyboard, and bootable Win7 USB drive working.Īs per the documentation, I chose a clean install and let the installer do it’s magic.
It was pretty cool to walk through the install with my tablet pen in hand. Other than the power cord the only thing I had plugged into the system was the USB boot drive. I LOVED how the install recognized the touch and pen digitizers on the ASUS. Take them as you will.Īfter creating a bootable USB from the Windows 8 Developer Preview ISO, I plugged my USB drive in and said “I’m feeling lucky.” After restarting the computer, the machine booted off the USB and the install started. Below are the notes and raw feedback I took while doing the clean install. However, my horoscope said it was a good day so I figured what the heck, let’s go for the full install on real hardware. If it wasn’t for the Windows team admitting they were using my exact machine I would have probably been going the Hyper-V route. It’s a full touch and pen slate computer that is one of the test devices in the Windows 8 labs. So I have been installing new builds of Windows since NT 3.1 Beta 1 so I can’t help myself! After downloading Windows 8 Developer Preview I of course had to give it a go on my ASUS EP121.
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