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hey guys this is Austin and today amuse the video showing off windows late running on a macbook air this setup is a 2011 MacBook Air 11 inch running Windows 8 inside VirtualBox windows 8 is the first real version of Windows that's meant to be run on everything from a tablet to a desktop and the Metro UI is a great example of this the large high contrast tiles are made to be touched just as easily as you could open them with a mouse or trackpad gestures also play a large part in the US including swiping the lockscreen up or swiping with two fingers to scroll through the Metro UI and both of these work great with the air in fact windows 8 really seems to be made for if not a touchscreen then at least a nicely sized multi-touch trackpad a lot of what seems perfect for swipe is slow and clunky for a mouse to click and drag the air also works well with the multitasking in Windows 8 by meeting the minimum 1366 by 768 resolution necessary to have multiple metro and classic elements on screen at once focusing a bit more on the OS there's a lot to talk about for starters even inside VirtualBox the responsiveness really is impressive with very little of the occasional lag you'll find in earlier versions of Windows the SSD in the air no doubt helps here but windows 8 has the same hardware specifications from windows 7 and actually uses less resources not bad considering that's running both the classic and Metro UIs at the same time even with an ultra low voltage core i5 processor and 4 gigabytes of RAM the air does a good job of flying through both windows 8 as well as Lion with only minimal amounts of lag they're to be expected when you're using a virtualized OS while it definitely takes some mental exercise to remember which gestures work with which OS everything works surprisingly well overall if you're curious about Windows 8 I absolutely recommend giving it a shot if you want to know how to install Windows 8 in VirtualBox like this be sure to hit the annotation on screen right now for the tutorial if you enjoyed definitely be sure to leave this video a thumbs up and if you're interested in more Windows 8 videos like this be sure to subscribe