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Old 06-18-2012, 11:08 PM  
jigg
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Originally Posted by AdultKing View Post
Nah, I haven't read anything about Windows 8 development because I'm a buffoon and know nothing about computers.

What I do know is this, Windows 8 in it's beta form is broken and badly flawed. It's much more resource intensive than I am sure Microsoft have designed it to be. It will chew through battery life as a result.

These Surface notebooks with detachable keyboards are not going to be any match for Android or iOS tablets simply because they miss the point of what a tablet should be.

The only thing I can see these machines doing is to cannibalize the ultrabook market and perhaps gain a few users who seem to think that running full blown Windows on a Tablet is a thing worth doing.

This product is more expensive than any other tablet to boot with half the battery life. I don't get it, neither will most people and as a result iPads and to a lesser extent Android tablets will continue to fly off the shelves while boxes of Surface machines gather dust.
it's a beta OS, a preview, it's not supposed to work right. It has de-bug code still running. When it RTMs that's when it's optimized (up to that point). For me going from Consumer to Release preview was like night and day. I have 4GB ram and over 100 tabs opened in IE10 and Chrome right now along with Zune desktop, mail, tweet deck and Photoshop and it's much better optimized than the consumer preview. Around 77% used RAM

Also, you can't compare Windows RT to Windows 8 (Surface to Surface PRO)

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