It just gets in the way of my work flow. I recently bought a new ultrabook without a touchscreen and it came with windows 8. Thankfully i only use this for editing and uploading photos. My next machine will be a macbook. Ive been a windows user since win 3.1 circa 1993 and have decided windows 8 is the end, i want an os to help my workflow not to consistently be a hindrance. My win 8 machine came with windows update auto selected. When I went to Glastonbury i was in a field on battery power when switching on my laptop it decided to update windows, using valuable battery power, along with expensive mobile broadband data and also most importantly time waiting for this update. Yes I know I can switch of auto settings but once the update started even a reboot wouldnt allow me to stop it.

The email client is dreadful. A simple f5 to sync is replaced by more touchpad use than is needed.

The metro element is a complete waste of data and power for me

No start button, yes I know there is an app but I shouldnt have to buy an app to be able to work my computer.

The screens on the retina mbp are beautiful and I have stunning screen on my Samsung Gamer 7 laptop, but its not as good as the retina.

My Samsung has win 7 on it but any future computer purchases as my uktrabook has proved will have to come with win 8 and a custom build is out of the window for me i prefer off the shelf for reliability and no compatibility issues, ive suffered those for years and not doing it again.

I agree with smeggy a two screen setup is a must, even my wife now has a two screen set up for her studies its just so efficient for computing and productivity

Any new machine is going to come with windows 8, for that reason alone i would go for the imac.

The k-30 should be fine for club work, however with a 16-50 and a flash attached it didnt feel well balanced to me.

Focus speed also depends on the lens used. The tamron 17-50 was slow to focus compared to the da*16-50 on my mki body. The mkii and da*16-50 is in a different league however.

Here is a link to my club work, all the 2013 galleries are mkii and da*16-50

link

If i was working professionally in a club now without a mkii i would jump one one just to stop the frustration

It appears to ff discussions become more heated than anything else.

I think all Pentax dslr focus systems have been poor until the k-5 mkii and k-30 came out.

The tamron is not fast to focus in low light, the sigma probably focuses faster but you lose the wider aperture at the long end....

Why not just open a couple of flickr accoutns and dump them all on there??? Thats what I do now. Free 1tb with every account so I have a number of accounts in case of account failure

mki is terrible for club photography, I ended up using MF most of the time, mkii however isa total game changer. No problem with af even in the darkest corners of the club

Great little camera, pleased you finally got one sorted David.

We have a free air show in cleethorpes next month. Quiet a big one by all accounts...