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This makes me really excited about the future of the 'desktop' ( => tablet). Microsoft has really nailed it in terms of user experience and performance. This is

This makes me really excited about the future of the 'desktop' ( => tablet). Microsoft has really nailed it in terms of user experience and performance. This is a good example of out innovating the competition and no other company is better suited to execute on this than Microsoft.

nextparadigms 15y ago
How do you know they nailed it in terms of performance? It's running on a Core i5, on which even Vista or Windows 7 runs well. We don't know how well it will run on Atom or ARM yet, which will be the "tablet optimized" chips, with higher battery life. The Core i5 will give 2 hours of battery life, especially in such a small package compared to a notebook.
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- barista 15y ago
  They did show an ARM tablet as well. Besides by the time it is released, processors would have gotten even better.
  - barista 15y ago
    Just see the keynote again. It actually uses less resources even today as compared to Windows 7 SP1.
    - erikpukinskis 15y ago
      What kind of battery life does Windows 7 SP1 get on tablets?
      - barista 15y ago
        Don't know. A quick search brought up this page where the tablet gets a 7 for battery life. So I am guessing its ok. http://reviews.cnet.com/tablets/acer-iconia-tab-w500p/4505-3126_7-34546373.html#reviewPage1 http://reviews.cnet.com/tablets/acer-iconia-tab-w500p/4505-3...
      - wanorris 15y ago
        The $550 Acer Iconia W500 tablet (which comes with an attachable keyboard base) got 4:06 on a Cnet video playback battery drain test. http://reviews.cnet.com/tablets/acer-iconia-tab-w500p/4505-3126_7-34546373-2.html?tag=rvwBody http://reviews.cnet.com/tablets/acer-iconia-tab-w500p/4505-3... Acer isn't exactly known for brilliant power engineering, so a better vendor could likely do better. But this also wasn't exactly a high-powered chip, either. So this is probably a plausible baseline for battery usage in Win 7. They need to beat this by quite a bit in Win 8, or the tablets will be a tough sell.
        Tyrannosaurs 15y ago
        Given that the iPad 2 gets 11 hours + in similar tests I don't think that's a tough sell, I think it's an impossible sell.

nextparadigms 15y ago

How do you know they nailed it in terms of performance? It's running on a Core i5, on which even Vista or Windows 7 runs well. We don't know how well it will run on Atom or ARM yet, which will be the "tablet optimized" chips, with higher battery life. The Core i5 will give 2 hours of battery life, especially in such a small package compared to a notebook.

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barista 15y ago
They did show an ARM tablet as well. Besides by the time it is released, processors would have gotten even better.
- barista 15y ago
  Just see the keynote again. It actually uses less resources even today as compared to Windows 7 SP1.
  - erikpukinskis 15y ago
    What kind of battery life does Windows 7 SP1 get on tablets?
    - barista 15y ago
      Don't know. A quick search brought up this page where the tablet gets a 7 for battery life. So I am guessing its ok. http://reviews.cnet.com/tablets/acer-iconia-tab-w500p/4505-3126_7-34546373.html#reviewPage1 http://reviews.cnet.com/tablets/acer-iconia-tab-w500p/4505-3...
    - wanorris 15y ago
      The $550 Acer Iconia W500 tablet (which comes with an attachable keyboard base) got 4:06 on a Cnet video playback battery drain test. http://reviews.cnet.com/tablets/acer-iconia-tab-w500p/4505-3126_7-34546373-2.html?tag=rvwBody http://reviews.cnet.com/tablets/acer-iconia-tab-w500p/4505-3... Acer isn't exactly known for brilliant power engineering, so a better vendor could likely do better. But this also wasn't exactly a high-powered chip, either. So this is probably a plausible baseline for battery usage in Win 7. They need to beat this by quite a bit in Win 8, or the tablets will be a tough sell.
      - Tyrannosaurs 15y ago
        Given that the iPad 2 gets 11 hours + in similar tests I don't think that's a tough sell, I think it's an impossible sell.