Well, my case is that sometimes i carry my notebook to work so i don't like to walk with it in the bag turned on cause i'm afraid to damage the HD while in sleep mode. (ehrm, i had an issue with my old hp windows vista notebook HD crash because i walked with it in the bag in sleep mode, i believe).
so i turn it on several times a day.
also, the applications made for W8 open as fast as in my Nokia Lumia or my iPad, MS Office 13, for example runs perfect.
i'm not selling M$ but this is, IMO, the only really good and worthy thing M$ in 10 years perhaps. So far i am very satisfied, no bugs, no incomplete software and it is very nice for a consumer preview version.
better than that IMO, only a macbook but it still competitive as Apple product.
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Pros, IMO.
*IE, besides its crappy layout runs very nice, but the chrome still better.
*The news app is just awesome, update daily and you can create a news selector for your interest area ( for me it is very important since i'm an advisor and analyst i need to keep updated)
*the apps, including desktop ones designed for older windows versions open and close in fast speed. ( that means i never had to use ctrl+alt+del hehe)
*the app management is intuitive you can switch applications easy as a gestitude
*the metro interface is very promising, if devlopers can explore it right you won't need thousand of softwares to work fine, if you can merge em' all in one app, that's a deal
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Cons, IMO
*Zune could be the standart music player and manager i can't believe it didnt came in the consumer preview, IMO it should be the standart media player and manager
*Even if its very fast, the Office should be running in metro interface, i hate to have to open the desktop to have it working.
MS has the opportunity now of make something different, so they should take it because they have now an wonderful platform there.