windows 8 on transformer prime !!!

simulatorman said:
These do look nice but I’m looking forward to what will be available a couple of months after Windows 8 launches.
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:( this is what makes me sad, I will have no choice but to buy straight away, then two months down the line, much more suitable stuff will be out.

I want 12" and high res for the snap feature, keyboard dock is also a high priority.
 
No news about dual booting Android and Win 8 RT? Hrmm.. makes me wonder if we were jumping the gun with that thought.

I cant say that i'm very interested in the larger Intel Win8 tablet. That thing is going to be heavy and probably have rubbish battery life.
 
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Moving on, the 810 features an unspecified Intel Medfield CPU with 2GB of RAM. Like the 600, it has a Super IPS+ display with 1366 x 768 resolution, only the panel here is a bit larger, measuring 11.6 inches. What's more, this guy makes use of a Wacom dual digitizer, allowing for both pen and finger input.
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Awwww Yeahhhh...! Take that iPad... :p

Just a shame about the low resolution and we will have to wait and see what the performance is like.

A proper digitiser will be superb for those wanting to draw/produce images on them.

So wish list of Samsungs device (surely soon to follow?), Sandy bridge ULV and higher resolution (1600x900 or 1920x****) in a 12" converting tablet. Considering the series 9 is basically 1cm thick I can't see an issue when the keyboard is removed..

EDIT: Seeing the Ai with Android and Windows 8 running on the same tablet reminds me how ugly stock Android actually is. :(
 
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Glaucus said:
:( this is what makes me sad, I will have no choice but to buy straight away, then two months down the line, much more suitable stuff will be out.

I want 12" and high res for the snap feature, keyboard dock is also a high priority.
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Missed this the first time round (the links in this thread) but...

Introducing the Transformer book...

http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/04/asus-transformer-book/

:D

1080p display, 11.6/13" display and Ivy Bridge with 4GB of RAM...!

The Windows tablet version of the UX31 rather than the Transformer. That will hopefully be a proper tablet that you can dock while at home and use as your main computer.
 
Interesting, as a second tablet. Want arm for battery life. But if one of those would run kerbal space program and the upcoming xcom, at ~£600 . I would be sold.
 
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If the current ultrabooks are anything to go by you'll probably still get 5+ hours* out of it and significantly more with the base unit. Not as good as the 10 hours on the best ARM tablets (but then most of the ARM androids only seem to last 5-7 hours).

I can see the benefit of ARM though, but love the idea of a tablet that you can use as your main computer, plugged into your desk dock though!

*Someone suggested two hours (but then someone also insists all the components would have to be in the base...) but I have no idea why that would be the case considering we already have ultrabooks running that hardware with keyboards and trackpads at the tablet sides thickness or less.
 
It won't be two hours, also arm ones should be same as iPads, unlike android.mesoecially with windows power saving features.

Tbh I wouldn't mind buying one of each, arm and x86 to replace desktop. Be nice if I could get away with one, but we haven't got the CPUs for that yet. Although aren't the new atoms or is it atom replacements meant to be far more on par with arm power requirements.
 
The good ARM ones should last around 10 hours yeah and I'm guessing the Intel IB ones will range from around 5-7 hours general usage. I think quite a lot of the current Android crop are hindered by cost cutting though.

The Atoms may be ARM efficient but still nowhere near powerful enough to have as a desktop replacement, the IB ones should be able to do most tasks (such as fairly intensive Photo editing). On the other hand W8 and it's ability to transfer settings etc could mean, with a base unit at home, it wouldn't feel like you had two separate devices in use (synced settings, favourites, games and files).
 
Ivy Bridge and W8 should have decent power/heat profiles when browsing the web, word processing etc. Two hours will be for unoptimised legacy software :p.

Win RT looks smooth on a 1.5GHz dual core Krait. Imagine a quad core version running at 2.5GHz and Adreno 320. :cool: (faster than my current desktop :D)

 
will13 said:
Also if Windows 8 did come to the Prime surely it would be ported to the other Tegra 3 devices?
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Nope. Windows 8/RT will not run on any current ARM devices. While Win RT tablets use ARM based SoC's (System on Chip) they're not the same SoC's used in current tablets available now.

ARM SoC's for Win RT are new, specifically made for Win RT. They have PC-like things built-in. Like PCI-E, SATA conrtrollers, and GPU's that support atleast DirectX 10.1 and Windows WDDM graphics driver. Without any of this Win RT will not work so you can forget installing it on any Android/iFad device. But you cant even try it in the first place, because you wont be able to buy Windows RT, it will only come pre-installed on Windows tablets.
 
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All those features you listed are stock, they're not Windows specific.

Check out the T30 technical reference manual, the Asus Prime and 600 use the same chip. http://developer.nvidia.com/tegra-3-technical-reference-manual
Same goes for OMAP 4470/543x and the APQ8060A powered tablet Qualcomm showed off, which only has a DX9.3 gpu :D (I'm sure they'll launch with Adreno 3xx)

The whole point of WinRT is to keep hardware costs down, SoCs like the Huawei k3v2 have been approved too.

No idea where you've got the "ARM SoC's for Win RT are new, specifically made for Win RT" from. :confused:
 
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