microsoft to make own tablets
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Im sure I read there is going to be a android/win8 tablet dual boot that is very appealing
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5968/acers-iconia-w700-tablet-windows-8
This but thinner and cheaper please. Perhaps instead of using Core i5, use some cheaper and slower dual core processors which will run cool enough to be passively cooled.
This but thinner and cheaper please. Perhaps instead of using Core i5, use some cheaper and slower dual core processors which will run cool enough to be passively cooled.
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New york times saying its a tablet
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/16/technology/microsoft-expected-to-introduce-tablet.html?_r=2
If this is true its huge for the first time they will make their own tablet
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/16/technology/microsoft-expected-to-introduce-tablet.html?_r=2
If this is true its huge for the first time they will make their own tablet
we don't care its your choice just don't ruin others thread
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A windows powered tabelt might tempt me into acquiring a tablet finally, i've used most of the others through work and none have interested me so far
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If Microsoft do make their own tablets and the price is right and they work then who knows what is going to happen. Another tablet maker won't hurt.
This looks good hope this works for hp after there disastrous tab launch
http://www.pcworld.com/article/254655/hp_slate_8_windows_tablet_details_surface.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/254655/hp_slate_8_windows_tablet_details_surface.html
A low power Atom SoC and W8 Pro? Another disaster for HP then...
The Acer Iconia W700 is the only 'full on' Windows 8 tablet that looks decent. Wonder if the new custom Ivy Bridge CPU is any good? (single core?)
The Microsoft branded one will be too (£150-£300) Unless they go crazy a pump for a £1K Ivy Bridge tablet
The iPad, Kindle Fire and Nexus are ecosystem consumer tablets.
The Acer Iconia W700 is the only 'full on' Windows 8 tablet that looks decent. Wonder if the new custom Ivy Bridge CPU is any good? (single core?)
The Microsoft branded one will be too (£150-£300) Unless they go crazy a pump for a £1K Ivy Bridge tablet
The iPad, Kindle Fire and Nexus are ecosystem consumer tablets.That article is pretty fail.
Since when? On a hardware level the differences are small between comparatively priced tablets, if any difference at all really. Yes, $100 tablets are miles away but they are $100 tablets, not 500-600+. iPad does nothing particularly exciting with hardware. No SD expandable memory, no USB host (or USB at all for that matter), no NFC etc etc.
Software wise, iPad likely has far more dedicated Tablet apps but it's not a huge deal. I do not want for anything on my Android TouchPad and I have certainly never seen anything on an iPad I cannot get on my Android tablet.
Will be interesting to see what MS do but I have a sneaking suspicion that they will not get it all right. Either it will be a cracking piece of hardware that flies with Windows 8 but it will look fugly. Or it will look amazing but fall shrot of performance expectations, or do all 3 but have terrible battery life.
Who knows, will be nice to see what they do end up with!
Since when? On a hardware level the differences are small between comparatively priced tablets, if any difference at all really. Yes, $100 tablets are miles away but they are $100 tablets, not 500-600+. iPad does nothing particularly exciting with hardware. No SD expandable memory, no USB host (or USB at all for that matter), no NFC etc etc.
Software wise, iPad likely has far more dedicated Tablet apps but it's not a huge deal. I do not want for anything on my Android TouchPad and I have certainly never seen anything on an iPad I cannot get on my Android tablet.
Will be interesting to see what MS do but I have a sneaking suspicion that they will not get it all right. Either it will be a cracking piece of hardware that flies with Windows 8 but it will look fugly. Or it will look amazing but fall shrot of performance expectations, or do all 3 but have terrible battery life.
Who knows, will be nice to see what they do end up with!
I was reading that the windows 7 samsung slate has only about 3 hrs battery life
Lol so win 8 slates might improve that, the slates that are out at the moment have not been a great hit at all so as you said what will we end up with
Lol so win 8 slates might improve that, the slates that are out at the moment have not been a great hit at all so as you said what will we end up with
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Microsoft are going into this very half-arsedly. They've got one of their own boys running Nokia, for one thing, but instead of instructing him to maintain the alliance Nokia had with Meego and sweet-talk them into supporting WP as their push to get x86 onto mobile they basically dumped Intel cold and now Ottelini has run straight into Android's arms. A unified desktop/tablet/phone OS with the ability to cross-run applications without the need to recompile them for the ARM instruction set would have made Microsoft into the monopolistic behemoth they were back in the 90s.
I suppose Intel's chips just aren't ready to power mobile devices, so they elected to turn out some ARM tablets rather than stay out of the race altogether, which is sensible, but I still think they should be doing more. They and Apple are the only companies who have their OSs on all 3 form factors, but they're the ones that made the least effort to integrate their devices together, treating them like islands rather than as a seamless experience. RIM and HP/Palm made a lot more effort to help people treat their phones and tablets as a single contiguous work surface. (Though RIM failed because they just weren't, though now that they're putting QNX onto phones too they could give it another go, and HP failed cause the whole thing was kinda half-baked and they quit the race before they were barely past the starting line)
I suppose Intel's chips just aren't ready to power mobile devices, so they elected to turn out some ARM tablets rather than stay out of the race altogether, which is sensible, but I still think they should be doing more. They and Apple are the only companies who have their OSs on all 3 form factors, but they're the ones that made the least effort to integrate their devices together, treating them like islands rather than as a seamless experience. RIM and HP/Palm made a lot more effort to help people treat their phones and tablets as a single contiguous work surface. (Though RIM failed because they just weren't, though now that they're putting QNX onto phones too they could give it another go, and HP failed cause the whole thing was kinda half-baked and they quit the race before they were barely past the starting line)