Neither its performance nor capabilities are obviously for free. Let alone that the price for today's conditions for such a monster tablet would be nearly outrageous. I still can't help but get excited of what the future might hold.
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Neither its performance nor capabilities are obviously for free. Let alone that the price for today's conditions for such a monster tablet would be nearly outrageous. I still can't help but get excited of what the future might hold.
I'm sure it's been pointed out already but that 7W number is misleading (it's SDP, not TDP), plus the real advancements in battery life come from Haswell and Intel really tightening power requirements of all chips on the mobo, not just the CPU. Every little bit helps to reduce idle power consumption and better sleep functionality.
When get the power of even a Core 2 Duo in the thinness of an iPad, then I think we'll see Windows 8 make a lot more sense since it will be soon considered silly not to get a tablet that converts into a laptop with a keyboard dock.
I've been wondering lately about the Microsoft & Intel relationship. Now that we've seen that Intel can actually deliver quite good mobile platforms (Clover Trail etc), what does Microsoft gain by supporting ARM? Except that it's nowadays cool to have it supported? Why not just drop the support for ARM and focus on Intel + x86 exclusively? I think both companies would benefit from a tighter relationship.
Lower absolute cost of tablets at the low end.
Possibly better performance/power at the low low end.
Leverage against Intel. With AMD dying who is going to put pressure on Intel's prices.? Answer: Qualcomm (and others down the line).
Hedging their bets.
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Got both Windows 8 Ultrabook and a Tablet and I will say that may be the least of roadblocks in adoption to the OS.
The Tablet UI is riddled with "apps" that are functionally crippled, while the Desktop UI usage is incredibly messed up with the schizophrenic nature of the OS needing the user to jump back and forth between two UIs.
There's more, but I'll end it here. Let me say its more than just battery life/thickness/weight/Start Button.
I've been extremely happy with the Dell Latitude 10. Ok, it's too heavy as a tablet and too slow as a laptop replacement, but still, I've seen myself picking it up instead of iPad 2 or Asus Vivotab RT. Now we just need a device which is much more powerful and a little lighter and we have a winner.
An update: Updates to the apps have greatly improved functionality, usability, and compatibility. This is a step forward in the right direction.
as well as 5-6 inch phones with 1080p
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Certainly when compared to Apple. They had their tablets out 6 years before the first iPad.
Apple just improved on it when mobile ARM CPUs were finally decent enough and the cost of capacitive touchscreens low enough to make a viable consumer tablet.In much the same way that Apple were one of the first with PDA's but PDA's didn't really take off until Palm got into it.
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No, they pushed the whole pen computing thing.
Apple went with multitouch and they'd been developing tablets for a long time, not coming out with one necessarily. In fact, they may have been working on them longer than the iPhone, which was in development for years before they introduced it.
Of course, Apple was in the Newton business, which didn't succeed. Steve Jobs offered to buy Palm but was turned down.
The tablet PCs that MS pushed didn't sell enough to make a blip. MS has all these distinguished computer scientists on the payroll, with research labs in Cambridge and Shanghai and elsewhere. They come up with concepts like that folding book form factor.
But they haven't been able to productize a big hit outside of Windows and Office, though they're not giving up any time soon.
Apple went with multitouch and they'd been developing tablets for a long time, not coming out with one necessarily. In fact, they may have been working on them longer than the iPhone, which was in development for years before they introduced it.
Of course, Apple was in the Newton business, which didn't succeed. Steve Jobs offered to buy Palm but was turned down.
The tablet PCs that MS pushed didn't sell enough to make a blip. MS has all these distinguished computer scientists on the payroll, with research labs in Cambridge and Shanghai and elsewhere. They come up with concepts like that folding book form factor.
But they haven't been able to productize a big hit outside of Windows and Office, though they're not giving up any time soon.
And now Palm is on life support...strange how things turned out.
On life support? It doesn't really exist anymore as far as I know. In a way that's even worse.
Palm was purchased by HP, starved of resources, launched a crippled tablet (based on an old HP project) and failed to launch a great phone (Pre3, I have one) and was then shut down by HP. webOS was open-sourced to Open webOS and then sold to LG for a future smart TV OS.
There is no Palm.
There is no Palm.
There is no RIM, it's Blackberry now.
Blackberry is much safer than nokia and htc just as a couple of examples. They are actually posting profits.
