I've just purchased a cheap Chinese tablet containing Baytrail-T. Ordered from an Aliexpress seller.
I paid £125 for a device with a 9.7" retina display, 2GB memory/32GB storage (plus a microSD slot). It also has SIM slot for 3G HSPA data. Reported battery life is 5 to 7 hours. Almost exactly the same dimensions as the iPad Air. A lot of hardware for the price, so you can see that Intel must be practically giving the Baytrail chips away. Also, there are a lot of these sorts of devices being released:
http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2014/11/12/bam-windows-8-1-tablet-for-99-in-u-s/
A huge amount of processing power and great potential utility for a tiny amount of money and there are lots and lots of these 1GB/16GB devices around, some of better quality than others, obviously.
My tablet (which I've barely had chance to look at since it arrived earlier this week!) comes with Android 4.4 installed but this apparently isn't the best optimised OS installation and there are reports that Windows 8.1 runs much more smoothly. I do plan to install Windows in due course but I was a little disappointed to discover that the Windows 'Bing' release doesn't work properly on this tablet (it is an unlicensed beta release), so I'm going to have to fork out some cash for a Win 8.1 license.
Even after this expense is taken into account, it will still be a very cheap and extremely good-value device and I'll be happy enough if it lasts a few years as it feels well-built.
I paid £125 for a device with a 9.7" retina display, 2GB memory/32GB storage (plus a microSD slot). It also has SIM slot for 3G HSPA data. Reported battery life is 5 to 7 hours. Almost exactly the same dimensions as the iPad Air. A lot of hardware for the price, so you can see that Intel must be practically giving the Baytrail chips away. Also, there are a lot of these sorts of devices being released:
http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2014/11/12/bam-windows-8-1-tablet-for-99-in-u-s/
A huge amount of processing power and great potential utility for a tiny amount of money and there are lots and lots of these 1GB/16GB devices around, some of better quality than others, obviously.
My tablet (which I've barely had chance to look at since it arrived earlier this week!) comes with Android 4.4 installed but this apparently isn't the best optimised OS installation and there are reports that Windows 8.1 runs much more smoothly. I do plan to install Windows in due course but I was a little disappointed to discover that the Windows 'Bing' release doesn't work properly on this tablet (it is an unlicensed beta release), so I'm going to have to fork out some cash for a Win 8.1 license.
Even after this expense is taken into account, it will still be a very cheap and extremely good-value device and I'll be happy enough if it lasts a few years as it feels well-built.