Brian Shapiro: Think we'll just have to disagree - we're so far apart in experience and expectation it's like when I reply to your posts I have to switch to the Metro start menu it's so jarring *rimshot*. 
So....Engadget has their "review" of Win8 from a laptop users perspective:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/16/windows-8-on-a-laptop-in-depth-preview-video/
Of note, in their conclusion:
After a few days with Windows 8, we're left with even more questions than we had when we started. Now that we know the learning curve is steeper than we imagined, and that those glossy live tiles anchor the user experience in a way the desktop used to, we're intensely curious about how Microsoft will tweak the OS between now and its ship date.And yet, we hope Ballmer & Co. can eke out a few concessions on the PC side, making it easier to hang around the desktop, if we so choose. We'd expect that over the next year or so, the engineers in Redmond will fine-tune the keyboard shortcuts, making them more intuitive and consistent. Ultimately, what we really want is for this to feel like a fluid, bilingual experience, for the transition between the desktop and mobile-inspired UI to be a smooth one. Not that that's what Microsoft necessarily has in mind, of course, but it's not a huge stretch to think that Windows 8 is the middleman operating system between what we've known over the past decade and the touch-inspired future that seemingly awaits. On all counts, we'll just have to stay tuned, but for now we remain intrigued, hopeful and cautiously optimistic.
It's a familiar comment I'm seeing on other message boards from people who have used it.
Of course, confirmation bias and all that.
(Hey btw, WTF is up with the line spacing on these forums? Is this a FireFox problem? I seem to get double-spaces when I'm just trying to clear one line. Shouldn't be an issue, I'm on version 21334723413. )
Edit: The weird spacing seems to only happen on new posts - when editing, one <enter> equals one line - when creating a new post, it's 2. Odd.
