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Wow, very cool! Love that sensor tech!
If only that had a good touch OS to sit behind it. The Windows Phone 7 interface is actually pretty cool, though it doesn't seem like it would scale well.
the tablet war is heating up
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Wow, very cool! Love that sensor tech!
If only that had a good touch OS to sit behind it. The Windows Phone 7 interface is actually pretty cool, though it doesn't seem like it would scale well.
falcarrion
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Agreed.
But a nice setup would be the Dm with laptop and/or a tablet, players with tablets and the suface built into a gaming table.
falcarrion
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It looks like we have new type of tablets coming.
phone/tablet combos.
We have the ASUS padfone and CMIT's Transphone.
phone/tablet combos.
We have the ASUS padfone and CMIT's Transphone.
falcarrion
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check this out.
ECS “tablet” houses your iPhone, “runs” its iOS | 9 to 5 Mac
ECS “tablet” houses your iPhone, “runs” its iOS | 9 to 5 Mac
Relique du Madde
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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irX3p8o_W7k]YouTube - Windows 8 preview[/ame]
It will run an laptops, desktops, and tablets?!
I'm not sure... but my mind is partially blown. Problem is that there is so much good and bad with what this video previewed and it seems like no matter what device you run it on, you will loose a good deal of functionality and or the user experience will suffer as a result do to the windows 8's "kitchen sink" approach.
It will run an laptops, desktops, and tablets?!
I'm not sure... but my mind is partially blown. Problem is that there is so much good and bad with what this video previewed and it seems like no matter what device you run it on, you will loose a good deal of functionality and or the user experience will suffer as a result do to the windows 8's "kitchen sink" approach.
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catsclaw227
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Geez. That is pretty impressive. So far it looks like a nice melding of traditional windows paradigms the new tablet/smartphone OS paradigms.
At least it wasn't a vaporware demo, obviously scripted like it was a flash movie. You can tell he was doing the ADHD clicking and dragging that a developer does when they demo a real running app.
I know when I demo and I get impatient, I'm guilty of mouse tracking and link-clicking.
At least it wasn't a vaporware demo, obviously scripted like it was a flash movie. You can tell he was doing the ADHD clicking and dragging that a developer does when they demo a real running app.
I know when I demo and I get impatient, I'm guilty of mouse tracking and link-clicking.
Fast Learner
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Definitely pulling in some of the goodness of the Windows Phone 7 UI. I agree that there was good and bad, though, so hopefully they'll be able to refine towards the former.
John Crichton
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I'm highly skeptical of anything Windows in portable form. They've never been able to cut down the bloat to the point where it would really work on a low powered platform.
Relique du Madde
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But who said's a tablet has to be a low powered platform? Think Differently. (heh) If they are able to get a portable windows os that remains powerful they will successfully change the face of tablet computing while raising the bar.
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It'd either have to be a heavy, thick tablet that generated a lot of heat, something that keeps compact tablets (like the iPad or the Xoom) from functioning, with the heat shutting down the processor (or destroying it if the processor doesn't shut down).
Alternately if they made very significant battery advances (quite a bit beyond anything they're realistically looking at for the next couple of years), it'd be a not-so-heavy, not-so-thick tablet that generated a lot of heat and would shut down.
They could build a non-compact tablet where there's room for fans and airflow that was laptop-thick and laptop-heavy that ran full-blown windows and didn't use a low-power processor and... wait, that's what they've done for the last 8 years, and almost nobody bought them.
I'm pretty sure they'll have to go low-power. That's why Microsoft recently announced that the next version of Windows will also run on ARM processors: Intel doesn't have a sufficiently powerful processor that's also cool enough and easy on the battery. They're working on such processors but, even with those it's still a low-power world.
Alternately if they made very significant battery advances (quite a bit beyond anything they're realistically looking at for the next couple of years), it'd be a not-so-heavy, not-so-thick tablet that generated a lot of heat and would shut down.
They could build a non-compact tablet where there's room for fans and airflow that was laptop-thick and laptop-heavy that ran full-blown windows and didn't use a low-power processor and... wait, that's what they've done for the last 8 years, and almost nobody bought them.
I'm pretty sure they'll have to go low-power. That's why Microsoft recently announced that the next version of Windows will also run on ARM processors: Intel doesn't have a sufficiently powerful processor that's also cool enough and easy on the battery. They're working on such processors but, even with those it's still a low-power world.
