Windows 8 on Low Res Netbook (with Touch...ish)
15 Mar 2012
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I played around with Window 8 consumer preview for a while on a vm on a high-end laptop, but after a while got bored of the lack of touch support so decided would give it a try on my Asus EeePC with Swival Touch Screen. Before I say anything I am aware that the tech specs say that this screen is below resolution. I installed it primarily to find out what the result of installing on a very common piece of hardware.
Well as you can see the error is handled, but the problem comes is it essentially makes the merto interface completely useless. In fact it makes it more than useless it is very annoying pressing start key then being presented with a load of icons that you cant click...
I hope they put in some fall back options for low res monitors, otherwise they will eliminate all notebooks atleast for update.
Assistant Professor in Visual Computing at Durham University. Stuart's research focus is on Visual Reasoning to understand the layout of visual content from Iconography (e.g. Sketches) to 3D Scene understanding and their implications on methods of interaction. He is currently a co-I on the RePAIR EU FET, DCitizens EU Twinning, and BoSS EU Lighthouse. He was a co-I on the MEMEX RIA EU H2020 project coordinated at IIT for increasing social inclusion with Cultural Heritage. Stuart has previously held a Researcher & PostDoc positions at IIT as well as PostDocs at University College London (UCL), and the University of Surrey. Also, at the University of Surrey, Stuart was awarded his PhD on visual information retrieval for sketches. Stuart holds an External Scientist at IIT, Honorary roles UCL and UCL Digital Humanities, and an international collaborator of ITI/LARSyS. He also regularly organises Vision for Art (VISART) workshop and Humanities-orientated tutorials and was Program Chair at British Machine Conference (BMVC) 2021.