Aye full fat windows 8
Win8 Tablets
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Aye full fat windows 8
[RXP]Andy;23033787 said:The key word there is "some", I bet the same sites wont say a bad word about Apple.
Indeed. With regard to the apps, as one video reviewer said, the official opening of the app store isn't until Oct 26 so half the apps aren't even available until official launch day. And lets face it, it's only a matter of time before apps start appearing on the Windows 8 store, so lack of apps will become a moot point.
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when does that come out?
In a day or two.
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i saw teh docking station for it. only a dock, no keyboard?
eeit: thougth pro tablets coming in 3 months?
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surface, not all pros.
its a dock and separate keyboard, no clamshell type dock.
Are you sure? I thought there was a keyboard dock for it?
So what you want it for isn't OS specific, pick whichever you like the feel of. But don't forget, if you need it for something specific, then you need to choose carefully.
I have zero use for any OS which isn't full fat windows. I have an HP touchpad, doesn't get used as it has only 1 use - the internet. No other uses apart from a time sink.
All say ordered upon request, so don't know how long it would be you got it
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which sites?
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Just installed windows 8 (Thanks you MSDN for free MS goodies <3) again on my laptop (Tired the preview way back but I couldn't get my wifi driver to work 
). Its quiet interesting, still dont like the idea of full screen apps on a laptop but apart from that its business as usually with a few changes here and there. The UI is really optimized for touch, not so bad with mouse but it would be so much faster with a touchscreen.
All in all I like W8, IE10 wasn't faster then Chrome for me at least, and going by the benchmarks I have seen that stands up. The HTML5 uptake is much improved and MS is only 1 year behind the curve now, which is so much better then IE9, its fast and smooth and overally the first time in a long time I didn't want MS to burn down for releasing a crap and useless web browser. They just need to get into having web apps/addons as everyone is using those now and I can see IE gaining some market share instead of losing it. Also wish they push this to at least windows 7, about half off windows 7 users still use IE8 which offers 0 HTML5 support and gives me hell as a web developer also having to do nasty hacks and so on to get simply things to work. Were as Firefox and Chrome users also tend to be up to date.
MS has really up there game here, I really only want a W8 tablet in the future for any real work/laptop replacement and see other tablets as more or less toys now. The Ecosystem is really good to, it might push me towards getting a Xbox 720 (or whatever the new one is) as the new Ps4 won't offer that level of integration. I have been a MS fanboy for a long time (as young as I can remember I always like MS products) but the last few years they dropped the ball, hated win mobile with a passion then we got Vista and I started to lose hope in them, but MS is back now
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). Its quiet interesting, still dont like the idea of full screen apps on a laptop but apart from that its business as usually with a few changes here and there. The UI is really optimized for touch, not so bad with mouse but it would be so much faster with a touchscreen. All in all I like W8, IE10 wasn't faster then Chrome for me at least, and going by the benchmarks I have seen that stands up. The HTML5 uptake is much improved and MS is only 1 year behind the curve now, which is so much better then IE9, its fast and smooth and overally the first time in a long time I didn't want MS to burn down for releasing a crap and useless web browser. They just need to get into having web apps/addons as everyone is using those now and I can see IE gaining some market share instead of losing it. Also wish they push this to at least windows 7, about half off windows 7 users still use IE8 which offers 0 HTML5 support and gives me hell as a web developer also having to do nasty hacks and so on to get simply things to work. Were as Firefox and Chrome users also tend to be up to date.
MS has really up there game here, I really only want a W8 tablet in the future for any real work/laptop replacement and see other tablets as more or less toys now. The Ecosystem is really good to, it might push me towards getting a Xbox 720 (or whatever the new one is) as the new Ps4 won't offer that level of integration. I have been a MS fanboy for a long time (as young as I can remember I always like MS products) but the last few years they dropped the ball, hated win mobile with a passion then we got Vista and I started to lose hope in them, but MS is back now
.Ms isn't one year behind the curve at all. It maybe slightly slower than chrome on rendering, but its in the pack, but at java script nothing can touch it. It's about three times faster at handling it than any other webrowser. Which is important for all the online stuff like skydrive, online version of office and of course plenty of other sites.
I know that's why I said I wouldn't trust them.
I can't say.
I know that's why I said I wouldn't trust them.
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The Javascript is slower then all other things out, if you compare the One X (Tegra 3) and Surface you will see that. IE10 is faster at sunspider which is a bit easy to cheat at but other things its still behind. And I meant behind in terms of HTML5 only. Also on the web javascript is most likey the fastest part, it has gotten stupid fast over the last few years and the bigger problems right now are rendering, talking to servers and such and 3rd party crap (Adblocker or something similar would take care of that).
I'm not saying its bad by any stretch and its good enough for everyday use, even for me with all my IE hate but its still not as fast as everyone else. If they get addons I could see a lot of people dumping firefox/chrome for it.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6392/the-windows-rt-review/7
anandtech are amazing with benchmark and reviewing products.
Also I'm wondering why a lot of people want 3g on windows tablet, you could just use your phone and you can even charger your phone form the tablet which negates the horrid battery drain. I think its what I will be doing, rather not pay for 2 contracts.
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The constant "its got no apps" complaint that keeps popping up in every review is really starting to grate on me.
Of course its got few apps, its new. The Apple Store had only a few apps when it launched, as did the Android Market. They grow.
Using the number of apps as an argument just strikes me as people desperately trying to seek something to complain about.
Of course its got few apps, its new. The Apple Store had only a few apps when it launched, as did the Android Market. They grow.
Using the number of apps as an argument just strikes me as people desperately trying to seek something to complain about.