Ninja Scooter
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So before 4:10pm today, you didn't understand Windows 8?
There's a difference between knowing a strategy and seeing it put to practice.
So before 4:10pm today, you didn't understand Windows 8?
the pro" version will, yes
Google is probably like holding their Nexus like a limp dick right about now..
..gonna be hard to get excited about whatever that thing is gonna be after this.
MS typically never lives up to the hype, but damn if this didn't impress. It's hard to be innovative with a tablet, being that it's a tablet.. but they did it.
Come on, the Fire and Nook will be total shit compared to a Jelly Bean tablet that's priced to compete. Sure, 10" tablets can do more with screen real estate, but not everyone buys tablets to work in Office. $200 with competent software can move volumes and people will compare them as substitutes.consumers don't care about processors. There are inexpensive 7" android tablets on the market now. There are also 7" tablets from Amazon and B&N.
The person looking at a $200 7" android tablet isn't the same person looking at a $500+ 10' tablet that runs MS office...
It's fully windows. Yes.
They're hot garbage when held in portrait.
Versus 16:10?Wrong, it just sucks when you are holding it like a piece of paper. (Portrait)
16:9 does make a difference. It is a weird tablet form factor.Versus 16:10?
It's that much of a radical difference?
Really I don't know shit about tablets but I didn't know aspect ratio differences that small made something suddenly into hot garbage. Is this hyperbole or what?
If the price, quality and battery life are good, I'd drop my ipad3.
I've tried to really find ways to make the ipad my goto work device but it just doesn't cut it. This seems to get me there.
The cover = keyboard is brilliant. Nice work MS.
I hope MS do more core hardware products and not just turn their product into an OEM mess like Android. So happy I stayed away from that platform.
Only the Pro version is. Windows RT is not full Windows. You will not be able to install Steam on it and play TF2.
Did you just plagiarize Jeff Gerstmann's tweet? WORD FOR WORD.
GAF creaming jeans over a touchscreen keyboard. Now I've seen everything.
I agree, it wouldn't been cool to see some games on it.
Its a screen with a keyboard, so it's a laptop. Woo.
Did they mention what kind of video card will be in it?
Is this thing capable of being a portable gaming machine?
Are the cities reversed on purpose?
The iPad isn't 16:9 so it's wrong
Yeah I'm confused.Are the cities reversed on purpose?
He's only unlucky that he didn't get away with it, I'm sure no-one on GAF follows Jeff Gerstmann's twitter.i think he did lol
Did they mention what kind of video card will be in it?
Is this thing capable of being a portable gaming machine?
you win the internets for a day.LOL that's mine!
Wow. MS pulled an amazing hat-trick. This is basically a Win 8 touchscreen Ultrabook. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but they've convinced people to pay a premium for something that's already out.
Sneaky edit
Did you just plagiarize Jeff Gerstmann's tweet? WORD FOR WORD.
Come on, the Fire and Nook will be total shit compared to a Jelly Bean tablet that's priced to compete. Sure, 10" tablets can do more with screen real estate, but not everyone buys tablets to work in Office. $200 with competent software can move volumes and people will compare them as substitutes.
Caught up reading live streams, so I'm not sure of all the facts as that's all I read.
USB 2.0 is kind of a loser for a 2012 product though. Pretty lame there.
Built-in kickstand is also pretty tacky.
The cover/keyboard looks pretty interesting though (highlight of the show). I'd like to fool around with that.
This thread confuses me.
It's like.. people I know knew of Windows 8's Metro UI + full desktop features, and I know knew about 3rd party tablets already announced.. are pretending they just didn't know these facts.
Other than the kickstand + keyboard...
... this is like.. "Hi Guys, here's what we've been saying about Windows 8 for almost 2 years now."
ICS is competent.That sounds great. When is Google planning on releasing the competent software?
This thread confuses me.
It's like.. people I know knew of Windows 8's Metro UI + full desktop features, and I know knew about 3rd party tablets already announced.. are pretending they just didn't know these facts.
Other than the kickstand + keyboard...
... this is like.. "Hi Guys, here's what we've been saying about Windows 8 for almost 2 years now."
Hats off to Microsoft.
They've definetly given a guy like me - a guy with no compelling reasons to buy a tablet - a reason to buy a tablet.
Of course, it mainly means I'll be eschewing a laptop/ultrabook purchase in favour of their Windows 8 Pro tablet... but hey - this is where the market is headed with computing devices, so it's a smart move to be willing to cannibalize existing market segments so you're not left out of the game altogether.
I mean that's something that Apple has built into their core product philosophy - something that has helped them become as wildly successful as they are - so it's a good idea to follow suit on that one.
I think SmartGlass was just a tech demo at E3. And it will run on any Windows 8 machine anyway.Disappointed there was nothing about integration of Smartglass and Xbox
I think that's the joke, no?yeah i am confused