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I know we have a few IT professionals on here so wondering if anyone can give me the heads up on the new tablet by Microsoft? I'm taking on a bit of motorsport work over the Winter months so need either a new laptop or I recently saw an article for the Windows tablet which I thought may fit the bill better.

Any help advice or comments most welcome

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flanaia1 said:
I know we have a few IT professionals on here so wondering if anyone can give me the heads up on the new tablet by Microsoft?
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If you want 'heads up' they say the blue tablets work well.

The Microsoft tablet is probably ok if you have a virus.

If you get an forum infraction, penicillin is best.


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Miriam.


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OK I realise its not exactly a riveting topic but I was hoping for a little better response than this :D

No one got any experience of these :dk:
 
flanaia1 said:
OK I realise its not exactly a riveting topic but I was hoping for a little better response than this :D

No one got any experience of these :dk:
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Only to say I use a Windows 7 tablet for some specialist software. I'm watching this thread with interest as it's not a good OS interface for tablet IMO.
 
moonloops said:
Word on the street is that Windows 8 is a turd of vista proportions.
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That doesn't sound good, I hoped one of the IT professionals on here may have had some experience of Windows 8 and the new tablet, looks like I will be buying a new laptop on Windows 7 then by the looks of this. :doh:
 
We've been running preview releases and now production release, it's certainly a mindset change from existing Windows systems. We've tried both dedicated systems in the form of Samsung Win8 tablets, and upgrading existing laptops and desktops.

IMHO for a tablet or touchscreen environment it works really well, as it's designed for podgy fingers to control things - there isn't a start menu any more, for instance, it's been replaced by essentially a large dashboard that lists all the applications on big square blobs.

For traditional desktop or laptop use though, it is indeed a turd of Vista proportions. However, it does seem quite a lot more responsive than Windows 7. I guess time will tell whether Microsoft win people over with their new user interface, or whether they have to release a 'Windows 7' theme for it.

Also watch out for the tablets, as Windows 8 will be coming with two sets of hardware support. Traditional Intel systems, and new support for ARM based tablets. I don't know whether there will be any translation layer to let the ARM systems run Intel apps, and we don't have access to an ARM Win8 tablet yet to try things.
 
flanaia1 said:
That doesn't sound good, I hoped one of the IT professionals on here may have had some experience of Windows 8 and the new tablet, looks like I will be buying a new laptop on Windows 7 then by the looks of this. :doh:
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Only played with VMs but I have to say W8 seems quite awful...might be fine on a touch-screen; if you like them, you may love W8, but as a long time keyboard and mouse user it's very counter intuitive - sideways scrolling anyone? No 'start', no 'programs' - and I had to google how to shut it down...

It does seem fast and stable though, with a 'classic' type interface it might be a good OS for the PC but as it stands, well it's like computing for window-lickers:eek:

cheers
 
agatward said:
We've been running preview releases and now production release, it's certainly a mindset change from existing Windows systems. We've tried both dedicated systems in the form of Samsung Win8 tablets, and upgrading existing laptops and desktops.

IMHO for a tablet or touchscreen environment it works really well, as it's designed for podgy fingers to control things - there isn't a start menu any more, for instance, it's been replaced by essentially a large dashboard that lists all the applications on big square blobs.

For traditional desktop or laptop use though, it is indeed a turd of Vista proportions. However, it does seem quite a lot more responsive than Windows 7. I guess time will tell whether Microsoft win people over with their new user interface, or whether they have to release a 'Windows 7' theme for it.

Also watch out for the tablets, as Windows 8 will be coming with two sets of hardware support. Traditional Intel systems, and new support for ARM based tablets. I don't know whether there will be any translation layer to let the ARM systems run Intel apps, and we don't have access to an ARM Win8 tablet yet to try things.
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Whats it perform like on the samsung tablets? I like samsung kit my samsung netbook has been bombproof
 
The Samsung Series 7 Slate was given out to a load of journalists not long ago, with Windows 8 installed. Use Google to search this and you'll find loads of information on it.
My son works in IT and is already running Windows 8 - from what he's told me, it's well and truly aimed at a touch interface and very different to Win 7. Seems Microsoft expect users of 'normal' PC's to migrate over to touch-screen monitors in time.
 
I hope it's more ****ing reliable than Window 7 tablet.

Turned mine on today for a decent survey. Message on screen, saying boot from hibernation failed do I want to try again or start from the beginning. Press Enter to continue.

Accept there is no enter at that point. Could not get beyond, so hard to resort to pen and paper. When returning the keys manage to borrow a keyboard for five minutes. Much annoying.
 
Has anyone had a play with one of these yet?

I'm now in the market, but a little confused as to where to go. I need full fat W8 not RT.
 
davidjpowell said:
I'm now in the market, but a little confused as to where to go. I need full fat W8 not RT.
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You would need to wait for the PRO tablet instead of RT
 
no ETA, I suspect they may show up after CES so prob Feb?
 
windows 8 is designed for touchscreen and as such is good on tablets, there are a few 3rd party people who have already developed a program to replace the missing start button, which makes it usable for non touch screen people

pokki seems so far to be the best of the free apps for this

Download of the Week: Pokki brings back Start Menu in Windows 8 - TechSpot News
 
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