This is strange, the OS itself feels much snappier specially restarting/shut down and startup where in Windows 7 is much slower However, my 3DMark score are 10% lower in Win 8 and so is CrystalDiskMark and AS SSD Benchmarks what gives
Compared how...? Virgin systems with same drivers? Had this issue offen when benching different Forceware version on sema OS base. So i would guess it´s probably a driver and settings issue at not an OS one.
more often than not yes, drivers are still new and will take companies a while (unfortunately) to get around to producing well greased drivers. There is a lot to the process for the companies to produce a working driver set, and even with that there are always going to be bugs. Hence the reason we see so many updates
'Cause you're using a crappy OS, perhaps? Regarding your ATi drivers you can use the one form leshcatlabs.net and install only the ATi drivers part. Maybe it will work for you.
May look like that, neither smells nor taste like. Have no performance issues here compared to my Win 7 Install. Even after Win 7 RTM it went some water down my home river till optimized drivers arrived, remember some bad fauxpas' here .
I remember I owned an HP DV54 years ago and whenever I would burn an Audio CD, it would fail towards the end abruptly. After googling the problem, it turned out to be that HP has used the cheapest and worst kind of CD-RW drive in that laptop. They are cheap because they use cheap a$$ components. That was my last HP laptop. Ever since then I only buy Toshiba and recently switched to ASUS because eveyr Toshiba laptop I bought would overheat like crazy on the high performance plan to a point where you can't put it on your lap anymore. poor cooling ASUS rocks in terms of cooling, driver support, and price vs. hardware specs