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Best reasonably priced Windows Tablet?

  • 10-04-2012 12:51am
    #1
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭


    Hi, thinking about buying a tablet. I actually prefer laptops but I might be doing some travelling at the end of the year and will be moving country etc shortly after that so the mobility of a tablet and ease of use on the subway here is attractive.

    Also, the reason I want a Windows tablet is because itunes and I aren't the best of friends. I run in to endless problems when I try to put music or other on my iphone. Even when it does work out, it takes forever. So, I have some questions...

    1. With a windows tablet, can can I treat it as hardrive and hook it up to my main laptop by usb and simply right click and "send to" stuff from my laptop to the tablet? e.g. music movies etc

    2. can i download and play music/movies (legally) as normal on a tablet like on a laptop. i.e. download and then use vlc player and the like without having to convert to a particular format like with itunes

    3. What windows operated tablet would you recommend, for a reasonable price

    4. I can type fast (have the certificates etc) so can the screen sense the speed of fast fingers and thus type everything correctly?

    5. What's the battery life like on the average tablet?

    6. Is there anything a tablet can't do that a laptop can?

    7. Finally, why can't Apple provide a simple way of getting movie and music on to an ipad without having to do everything through itunes? Does anyone else agree that itunes is the biggest balls of a thing?


    Thanks for reading.


Comments

  • #2
    Torqay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,835 ✭✭✭Torqay


    There is no real "Windows tablet". You may find some Atom or even Core iX based tablets with Windows 7 but let's face it: touchscreen operability isn't the strength of Windows, it's a desktop operating system. MS want to tell us otherwise with Windows 8 but it remains to be seen.

    Get some Android tabby and feed it with a memory card (or via USB cable)... or wait for WOA. But don't have your hopes too high, just because it's called "Windows" (on ARM) it doesn't mean any of your beloved Windows software will work with it, it's an entirely different operating system, although skinned to show some resemblance with Windows 8.
    kraggy wrote: »
    why can't Apple provide a simple way of getting movie and music on to an ipad without having to do everything through itunes

    Control freaks... Apple is the true enemy of the open platform principle (once incorporated by IBM for all the wrong reasons) which made computing for the masses possible.


  • #3
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    I have a Samsung Series 7 Slate on the way, I won it in a contest. I'll get back to this thread in a few weeks.

    Be kind to Apple: I see the reality every day. Apple might be a 'walled garden', but it works, it's elegant and simple. Then you have Android. Yes, it's open source, but as a result you have about 30 different competing products, all of which have their own problems. And the Manufacturers of those tablets have limited control over the OS, because it has to be compatible with the apps. So the idea of Open Source, is a little bit of a wash. I ran through that same debate process when I was shopping for a phone. You know how hard it is to find a good phone that ran ICS and had 4G and wasn't a big pile of balls that ran on a carrier that wasn't run by assholes? It's exceptionally hard.

    Open Source is a myth with the tablets though, you're better off thinking of them as Windows: it runs on many things, but no one thing very well. Say what you will about macbooks but when you control the hardware and the OS that runs it, you can be very performance-efficient.

    OP Windows Tabs are just windows PCs inside a slimmer body. All they lack are DVD Drives. Enjoy. As for screen response you'll have to do your own research till I get my hands on one myself.


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