I really enjoy the speed. Everything just seems snappier. Now I have to be honest, I got a new computer at the same time I started using Win 8, so it could be that Win 7 would have felt faster too.
I will admit that I'm surprised by the performance on the tablet.. It's a 1.5 GHz Celeron with 1.5G RAM. Performance is "tolerable", but I'll be upgrading to 4G like the other tablet has soon. The tablet is 96% functional - the pen, wireless and Gig-E NIC, nav buttons, and all other features worked out of the gate. Wireless needed a trip to Windows Update to function. The only thing that did not work in the end was the audio adapter, but I haven't done an exhaustive search for a driver yet. The HP PCs had no driver issues at all, but we did run into one application issue. I have Photoshop 6 and Creative Suite 1 and 2 (upgrade). We've been using the Creative Suite version and haven't upgraded in years - never an issue. CS will not register on Windows 8 - it reports that the registration site is not available. Might be an IE-10 or compatibility mode issue, but did not spend too much time on it yet. CS2 also fails, but it doesn't even get far enough to try to register. I researched enough to see it's a known problem without a commonly known solution (yet), so I rolled back to Photoshop 6, which installed and runs fine. I also have an old Corel suite that installed and ran without issue (Corel Suite 6.x).
One app that I haven't installed yet is the ISO mount / virtual CD Drive utility. This is now built-in and works well.
One more gripe - they have moved everything - again! 
Glenn
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