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Are we talking ARM or Intel. If its the latter, I expect the price to be higher as Intel windows 8 tablets are an order of magnitude more useful than an iPad. A

Are we talking ARM or Intel. If its the latter, I expect the price to be higher as Intel windows 8 tablets are an order of magnitude more useful than an iPad. ARM? No chance. Either that or they don't want to compete with the iPad...

nextparadigms 14y ago
It says ARM in the beginning of the article. I expect Intel ones to be even more expensive, and I don't think there's a market for a $800 Atom tablet that runs like a netbook (the Core i5 Samsung one they showed earlier was around $1200, and it didn't even have retina display). The iPad has what now - 150,000 touch-optimized apps? Windows 8 x86 has - 100? What are you doing to do with all the unoptimized and sluggish apps on a x86 tablet that will have half the battery life of iPad or Android tablets at best, and costs twice as much?
- gouranga 14y ago
  Correction - iPad has 149,900 shit apps and 100 good ones as does every platform. Also if its a problem for you personally, just buy a laptop :)
  - taligent 14y ago
    The famous and misguided "iPad only has a few good apps" argument. You know what you and others don't seem to understand. Your definition of good apps differs from my definition of good apps. Everyone likes and uses different apps for different reasons.
  - nextparadigms 14y ago
    You made your own correction irrelevant when you stated that this happens on every platform, which is true. But that's how great apps appear on a platform, and how great niche apps come to be born on the platform, too. You can't say "there's an app for that" on a platform with 100 or even 1000 apps totally, even if you have the "top apps" in there.
rimantas 14y ago
> I expect the price to be higher as Intel windows 8 > tablets are an order of magnitude more useful > than an iPad Right now I can do many useful and/or fun things on iPad. What can you do on Intel Windows 8 tablets now?
- gouranga 14y ago
  Now nothing. When released, whatever I do on my laptop, which is an order of magnitude more than I can do on an iPad.
  - ori_b 14y ago
    I dread trying to use desktop apps on a tablet. If I wanted to use desktop apps while on the go, I'd buy a laptop.
    - poppysan 14y ago
      I look forward to doing what I do on my desktop and more on a tablet, but the typing aspect isn't quite there yet. Why fear something like full Photoshop on the go, or a real suite of programming tools at your disposal? If the typing issue was resolved (without adding a clunky, external keyboard) Then there it would effectively replace the laptop in my eyes.
      - taligent 14y ago
        Because the UI for Photoshop was never designed for a touchscreen. And what on earth makes you think the typing issue can be resolved. Tablets have been around for 20+ years and nobody has solved it.
        poppysan 14y ago
        Tablets have come a long way in those 20 years, my pessimistic friend. At the scale of tablet use, with loads of developers and very smart people in general looking at usability issues, many issues have been solved, and will be.

nextparadigms 14y ago

It says ARM in the beginning of the article. I expect Intel ones to be even more expensive, and I don't think there's a market for a $800 Atom tablet that runs like a netbook (the Core i5 Samsung one they showed earlier was around $1200, and it didn't even have retina display). The iPad has what now - 150,000 touch-optimized apps? Windows 8 x86 has - 100? What are you doing to do with all the unoptimized and sluggish apps on a x86 tablet that will have half the battery life of iPad or Android tablets at best, and costs twice as much?

gouranga 14y ago
Correction - iPad has 149,900 shit apps and 100 good ones as does every platform. Also if its a problem for you personally, just buy a laptop :)
- taligent 14y ago
  The famous and misguided "iPad only has a few good apps" argument. You know what you and others don't seem to understand. Your definition of good apps differs from my definition of good apps. Everyone likes and uses different apps for different reasons.
- nextparadigms 14y ago
  You made your own correction irrelevant when you stated that this happens on every platform, which is true. But that's how great apps appear on a platform, and how great niche apps come to be born on the platform, too. You can't say "there's an app for that" on a platform with 100 or even 1000 apps totally, even if you have the "top apps" in there.

rimantas 14y ago

> I expect the price to be higher as Intel windows 8 > tablets are an order of magnitude more useful > than an iPad Right now I can do many useful and/or fun things on iPad. What can you do on Intel Windows 8 tablets now?

gouranga 14y ago
Now nothing. When released, whatever I do on my laptop, which is an order of magnitude more than I can do on an iPad.
- ori_b 14y ago
  I dread trying to use desktop apps on a tablet. If I wanted to use desktop apps while on the go, I'd buy a laptop.
  - poppysan 14y ago
    I look forward to doing what I do on my desktop and more on a tablet, but the typing aspect isn't quite there yet. Why fear something like full Photoshop on the go, or a real suite of programming tools at your disposal? If the typing issue was resolved (without adding a clunky, external keyboard) Then there it would effectively replace the laptop in my eyes.
    - taligent 14y ago
      Because the UI for Photoshop was never designed for a touchscreen. And what on earth makes you think the typing issue can be resolved. Tablets have been around for 20+ years and nobody has solved it.
      - poppysan 14y ago
        Tablets have come a long way in those 20 years, my pessimistic friend. At the scale of tablet use, with loads of developers and very smart people in general looking at usability issues, many issues have been solved, and will be.