Windows tablets

[eastmen]

http://semiaccurate.com/2011/04/11/guess-what-taped-out-at-amd/

Being the second Monday of April, we are legally obliged to keep articles about semiconductors short and sweet. Because of that, all we will say is that AMDs Wichita, the 28nm shrink to Ontario/Zacate, taped out a while ago. That said, carry on

any chance we see these this year ?

 

[eastmen]

http://tablets-planet.com/2011/05/2...ndows-7-tablet-pc-is-available-for-pre-order/


Seems to have a c-50 at 1.5ghz which is 500mhz faster than the acer iconia w500.

 

[Erinyes]

Given the fact that its called Wildpad on that slide, the clock speed is probably a typo as well

 

[eastmen]

Given the fact that its called Wildpad on that slide, the clock speed is probably a typo as well

mabye but i don't see clock speeds anywhere on the preorder site , so mabye that info comes from some where else


If you want to see more of it check out engadget

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/28/msi-windpad-110w-eyes-on/

its a pretty good looking tablet

 

[Acert93]

I received an E-350 note/netbook as a gift, but I am really wishing it was a Win tablet because I loath writing wide aspect on small screens and a Win7 tablet in portrait mode with a wireless keyboard sounds perfect to me.

 

[Erinyes]

mabye but i don't see clock speeds anywhere on the preorder site , so mabye that info comes from some where else


If you want to see more of it check out engadget

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/28/msi-windpad-110w-eyes-on/

its a pretty good looking tablet

Yea it looks pretty good, especially the fact that it has an IPS screen (Moto Xoom im looking at you..!). It could do with a slightly larger battery though, it has just a 31 Wh battery compared to the Acer's 36Wh

 

[eastmen]

yea but its only 1.8lbs while the acer is 2.14lbs

anyway balamer is supposed to show off windows 8 next week. So here is hoping we get a clearer future of what windows 8 tablets will be like.


I hoping for 4GB of ram with windows 8 and the metro ui along with battery life improvements from the os next year or late this year (even if the windows 8 is just a beta )

5hrs 1080p video play back will be ideal for me with mabye 7-8 hours of just surfing the net.

 

[eastmen]

I received an E-350 note/netbook as a gift, but I am really wishing it was a Win tablet because I loath writing wide aspect on small screens and a Win7 tablet in portrait mode with a wireless keyboard sounds perfect to me.

the problem is the e-350 is alot more powerful than the t-50 in these tablets.

 

[Deleted member 13524]

Yap, shoving a 18W chip in a slim tablet without active cooling wouldn't be a good idea.

 

[wco81]

A startup called Bluestack, which has gotten over $7 million in venture capital, is aiming to deliver a runtime for X86 hardware which will run Android apps.

So you can run Android apps. in emulation on Atom tablets maybe, as well as run them on PCs.

 

[3dcgi]

It will be interesting to see how a virtualized Android runs on x86 processors relative to native Android on ARM.

 

[Laurent06]

Applications using the NDK (that is those that have native code) don't work at the moment. From this page:

There are over 200,000 Android applications available in the world today, and Sharma says that although BlueStacks has only been able to test about 8,000 of the key ones, it had no problems except with applications that make use of the Android Native Developer Kit [2].

The NDK allows programmers who are looking for speed to add snippets of C or C++ code and run it natively on the ARM processor. Obviously, such code will not execute on an X64 processor.

But Sharma hints that such capability is coming down the pike, although he will not say how such a feat will be accomplished. It could involve recompilation of C and C++ or an emulation layer of some sort.

If they turn to emulation that will certainly be slow on lower-end x86 CPUs.

 

[Xmas]

You can already run Android apps on your desktop. So basically they're creating a somehow improved version of the Android Emulator?

 

[Laurent06]

You can already run Android apps on your desktop. So basically they're creating a somehow improved version of the Android Emulator?

I guess it's currently more along the lines of Wine, which doesn't rely on CPU emulation, but rather on OS API call translation. The Android Emulator is a full system emulator based on QEMU.

 

[eastmen]

Seems amd has a fusion chip specificly for tablets launching this year which is great news.

Its the Z series of apus

 

[eastmen]

amd just showed off a acer tablet running windows on a bravos that seemlessly switches to andriod running in windows and it looks pretty darn fast to me .

 

[Deleted member 13524]

Damn.. when I change my UMPC, I'll have a really hard time chosing between an Android+Win7 capable, "convertible" x86 tablet or another UMPC..

 

[Ailuros]

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mobile...ements_for_Tablet_Computers_with_Windows.html

Here's to hope that it will be gone with future OSs. If Microsoft doesn't change policy I don't see them gaining any further ground in the embedded space.

 

[Ike Turner]

Windows 8 UI announced http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2011/jun11/06-01corporatenews.aspx?wt.mc_id=Win8_D9

video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92QfWOw88I

 

[Deleted member 13524]

Windows 8 = Windows 7 + Metro UI running on top?