Windows 8 final on Windpad 110W

I'd like to report a 90% successful install of Windows 8 x64 Professional on the Windpad 110W. What I can't get working is revealed at the bottom.
Lessons learned:
The built in SSD card is very bad - it's actually slower than a mechanical hard drive, Windows 8 can barely run on it
I swapped my default Transcend mSATA card out with an Adata Sx300 64 gb chip, it works spectacularly, now the CPU is the bottleneck, as expected
Don't try installing 32-bit Windows 8 on this machine, many devices will not work properly
A clean install of Windows 8 (in my case from an external DVD) will get you all of the drivers you need except the GPS card and SD card reader, which are available on MSI's website
If the wireless doesn't work right try installing the O-Easy software to toggle it on; I'd suggest avoid using O-Easy as you can't close it normally, you must force-quit
Currently the Firefox 18 beta for Modern UI does not recognize the keyboard; all other apps seem to work alright
Runs HD video quite smoothly! Can balance a fair number of apps before the processor gets overwhelmed
Stuff that doesn't work:
I can only get either camera to work on the lowest image quality settings, with the built-in app or Skype - I'm using the latest AMD video/chipset drivers (it didn't work with the ones provided on MSI'swebsite either)
The switch to lock your view in one direction or another doesn't seem to work with any app I can find
The resolution is too low to dock an app to the side of another in the Modern UI interface
If anyone has any suggestions on how to get the higher resolutions for the camera to work let me know - thanks!
If you have any questions about how I managed to get various subsystems or apps running just ask.

I installed Windows 8 Pro x64 Upgrade from a USB flash drive on my WindPad Friday, and today I have almost everything working.  I have some notes on my WindPad review post if you care to look there.
My experience:
* You have to install all of MSI's drivers, Microsoft's .NET 2 and MSI's oEasy and Dual Camera Switch for everything to work (auto-rotate, etc).
* Rotate lock switch works.
* The SSD is OK-ish, it's just Windows that sucks.  Make sure you do a fresh install so that the partitions are correctly aligned to the blocks.  How do I know it's Windows that's sucking?  I also have Linux Mint on it, and it flies no problems.
* Once everything is installed and Windows isn't downloading anything in the background, it's fairly zippy except for file operations.  The Metro UI is *always* zippy, unlike the desktop - I suspect it's completely loaded in RAM, as Task manager shows 1.1GB in use right after boot.
* The webcams worked on my machine originally, but failed after the first reboot... dwah?
* The missing USB/serial device is most likely the GPS/Bluetooth.  If I remember correctly, it auto-installed after I used oEasy to turn on BT & GPS.

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