No one in their right mind is buying PCs and laptops before the hardware is Windows 8 ready

Windows 8 needs multi-touch hardware

If you absolutely need to buy a new computer that is not Windows 8 touch ready, offer the store or online vendor half price.

That’s all the computer will be worth in October.

As soon as consumers see Windows 8 computers that work with touch, they won’t be going back to mouse and click. Windows 8 is going to kill the old computer interface, and the hardware that is not touch enabled. 

I am out of town working on a laptop this week and it is killing me having to switch back to Windows 7 and lose my touch screen and touch pad. It’s torture.

Logitech Wireless Touchpad (image Logitech)

Does anyone want to buy a smart phone that is not touch? No, and that is one of the reasons Nokia and RIM are tanking. Windows 8 is a touch phone on your computer or laptop.

Tens of millions of people WANT an iPad because it’s touch and easy to use.

That is exactly what Microsoft Windows 8 will deliver in the fall of 2012 for Windows tablets, phones, laptops, and computers.

Only Windows 8 will be miles ahead of Apple with the same interface on all platforms and a better interface as well.

So thanks Microsoft for the cheap $15 upgrade but who cares? Computerworld – Buy a new PC now, pay $14.99 for Windows 8 upgrade, Microsoft says

Any hardware manufacturer that wants to survive the sales drought until Windows 8 ships should be advertising touch screens and touch pads that are Windows 8 compatible.

If you know someone who is going to buy these old obsolete computers, please send me their email address. I have shares in the bankrupt Nortel and the Brooklyn Bridge they will want to own.

Acer T231H touch screen $280 to $310

What I can’t understand is the hardware manufacturers sitting on their hands, selling old product that will be a poor excuse for a boat anchor soon.

Of course, you can upgrade a desktop to Windows 8 today, by adding a multi-touch screen like the Acer T231H  or the Logitech Touchpad.

We reviewed both products and they make old computers Windows 8 compatible. Those two items cost $350.

Some laptop touch pads will be Windows 8 compatible but what do you do with the screen?

Save your money because non touch computers will be as hard to get rid of as old CRT based televisions.

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