Quote Originally Posted by honeybee View Post
Oddly if they do bring out decent tablets running Win 8 (and not astronomically high prices), it would be a good alternative to the notebooks carried by many managers. All desktop apps would work seamlessly, plus I expect there would be some cloud computing to boot, and the whole experience would be much more seamless than today's world of berries and apples one can only see out of the windows. Everything would be within the windows, a truly integrated environment.

My manager could then be running the latest demo of our product on the tablet, my CEO can browse through emails on a single device instead of worrying about sync-ing it between the Exchange folder, his laptop and the mobile, we could write so many productivity apps for the sales and marketing teams without having to worry about the apps running on every conceivable mobile platform. And my IT team wouldn't have to worry about implementing any additional security measures for non-Windows devices.
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That's true, but the problem is these tablets will always be expensive, and heavy, and have much worse battery life than an ARM based tablet. It's the nature of what they are. On top of that it can be difficult to use apps designed to be used with a keyboard and mouse on a ~21 inch display, with only a touch screen and a 10 inch display.
Quote Originally Posted by kregg View Post
The device has a certain weight to it that doesn't feel too heavy; you can hold it, but it's not lighter than air. The back feels like a smooth golf ball, so it's really comfortable to hold. The bezels on the side are skinnier than at the bottom, but that's because if you hold it in landscape, your palm can fit snuggly on the device within the bezel comfortably. The back edges is tapered off, unlike the Kindle Fire, which is just this rectangular block, so it feels a bit thinner than it really is.
Ah that sounds pretty good...!
My personal experience is that it never gets more hotter than slightly toasty, and I've played:
  • Grand Theft Auto 3
  • Shadowgun (the one I paid for hasn't got Tegra 3, and to be quite frank, I really cannot be bothered to fork out money for the same game but fancier water and physics)
  • Minecraft
  • Modern Combat 3 (utter rubbish, knock-off COD clone for mobiles)

I've got other games like World of Goo, Max Payne, EDGE, and Canabalt HD which I briefly tried, and it's a comfortable experience where you can actually use the touch screen controls nicely, and the screen size is big enough where your hands don't engulf the entire screen. It's actually quite a pleasant experience from the Galaxy Nexus where the screen was huge, but not quite huge enough for playing games or watching TV/Films/Youtube etc.
Yeah that sounds fine. Thanks for the info!