[buzzkillr2]

I have bought two windows 8 laptops in the past month and have returned both of them. Windows 8 works nicely, is quick and once you get over the hump of figuring out the unintuitive UI is mostly nice to use. The hardware simply was not up to the task of everyday use as a student. Trackpad, screen quality, keyboard, and battery life were the deal breakers for me.

[cagey]

I returned my first (Toshiba) Win8 laptop less than 1 month ago after (a) the (Synaptics Multi-touch) trackpad stopped working entirely (after Win Update pushed Synaptics 16.2.10.3, the version Toshiba authorizes), and (b) even after recovering and switching to 16.2.21 (the newest release from Synaptics' website), it worked very unreliably and the simplest feature (which I require), single-finger scrolling, would not work at all.