Tablet News- Shape-Shifting Windows 8 Tablets -Windows 8 iPad killers?
February 5, 2013Be careful what you wish for: Windows 8 tablets that promise to offer a twofer tablet-laptop device -- something not offered by Apple on the iPad -- are here. Here comes a question? But are they up to the task?
The iPad-killing Windows 8 tablet-laptop has arrived. Problem is, most aren't ready to dispatch the iPad -- or the MacBook Air for that matter -- yet.
So far, reviewers of shape-shiftin window 8 tablets have not been kind. Otherwise known as "detachable," the devices can take the form of a standalone tablet or attach to a keyboard base to become a close facsimile of a full-fledged laptop.
And one of the key selling points is that you can run all your favorite Windows applications. In other words, this isn't.
The fly in the ointment is Intel's underwhelming , which presents itself as a kind of paradox: it promises to run any legacy Windows application, but it doesn't really deliver.
The W510 benchmarks at about a quarter of the speed on general apps versus the typical Windows 8 laptop shipping today, and it really can't run any graphics benchmarks at all.Real Work is nuked by desktop lag, performance stuttering, and a ludicrously small amount of storage."
Yep, storage is another problem. Some of these detachables come with flash drives that are only 32GB or 64GB. after Windows 8 has occupied a disproportionately large part of the drive's real estate.So, that's the bad news. Luckily, alternatives are emerging.
And expect more products like this when Intel's more battery-friendly Has well chip lands in the summer. Also, a new Atom is on the way -- probably late this year -- that has a completely revamped (read: faster) processor architecture and will be offered in quad-core variants.
Lastly, remember that the systems mentioned above are not "convertibles" like the Lenovo Yoga, Asus Taichi, or HP Revolve. Those are laptops first, tablets second and, accordingly, offer laptop-level performance.
Posted by Cherry.
