HP Envy x2
Another dual-core Atom powered transformer, the Envy x2 benefits from HP’s usual high-end build quality but suffers from the usual HP high-end price point. Eight hundred knicker is a lot when you line it up alongside the similar offerings from Acer and Asus even if HP’s online store shows it as a knock-down from the usual £887. You do get a very well made gadget for your folding, though. The all-metal unibody tablet is rock solid and the keyboard dock is, if only by a short head, the best of its type to, well, type on.
The 11.6-inch screen isn’t half bad either: a bright and lustrous IPS LCD affair that supports ten-finger touch rather than the more usual five. With Beats Audio amplification and a decent set of speakers, it's a good sounding machine too. Battery life is a bit mediocre, though: tablet and dock will pony up around six hours of medium-demand use apiece which if not bad isn’t class-leading either. Connectivity is also a bit poor - the dock as two USB 2.0 ports and HDMI, but the tablet doesn’t even have a micro USB port, just a proprietary charge/data socket.
More Info HP
Lenovo ThinkPad Helix
With an 11.6-inch, 1920 x 1080 IPS LCD display, Wacom pen, 8GB of Ram, a 256GB SSD and Intel Core i5 or i7 chips to choose from, the Helix swims in the same rarified and expensive waters as Sony’s Vaio Duo 11. So expect to pay in the region of £1500 for a fully specced Helix. For your money you will get a device built like a World War II German flak tower thanks to its magnesium chassis and shell, though all that metal does have an impact on weight - at 835g it’s a man-sized tablet and no mistake.
The rather brutal sounding “Rip & Flip” feature means you can mount the tablet facing either backwards or forwards in the dock so you can use it as stand with the screen facing you in much the same way as you can with Lenovo's Yoga tablet. The dock’s hinge mechanism looks a bit industrial but it has vents and fans built into it to cool the tablet’s innards when under heavy strain. Both the keyboard and screen are close to state of the art. If money is no object - or the IT department is picking up the tab - the Helix is unlikely to disappoint.
More Info Lenovo
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COMMENTS
Re: Ten Windows Tablets - the Eadon Review
Scores out of ten:
1/10, 1/10, 1/10, 1/10, 1/10, 1/10, 1/10, 1/10, 1/10 and ... 1/10
Conclusion - they all suck.
Oh look, Eadon the sad little attention seeker has an opinion on Windows.
Why don't you share your refreshing opinions with us? I've never heard someone slag off Windows before.
When's The Reg going to give us an 'Ignore User' button?
At least then the 95% of readers who don't find trolling amusing could go about their business without having every single discussion fucked up by someone with the social skills of a 5-year-old.
Re: Ten Windows Tablets - the Eadon Review
Oh, do pipe down you sniveling little maggot.
We all get by now that you think Microsoft are responsible for all the ills of the world from the Black Death onwards. However, the simple fact is that Windows is there and many people are going to have to carefully evaluate Win 8 tablets for corporate deployment, whether they want to or not.
So why don't you bugger off back under your bridge and leave them in peace.
Re: Ten Windows Tablets - the Eadon Review
> from the Black Death onwards
Blue death, surely?
Re: Just had an Asus Vivo delivered (#2 on the list)
Gosh Eadon you really are a tit aren't you?
This normal human is replacing a Samsung Q30 that has been worked to death for 4-5 years. This normal human has shopped long and hard for a suitable replacement. This normal human knows that simply saying that 'we needed to have Outlook' is not unambiguous these days. In fact full Outlook was the main deciding factor, bar none. Which is why I said it, because you know, it could confuse a stupid person.
Every review I've found backed up the 19 hour battery life, so perhaps you mistook some dried spittle on your screen for a decimal point?
Finally, I couldn't give a rat's arse if no-one else ever buys one. Your final paragraph requires me to be some sort of generic demographic representative in order to be even remotely accurate. Apple were actually in the running due to the aforementioned requirement for proper Outlook capability, but they weren't that beautiful and the screens were too small.
Re: Ten Windows Tablets - the Eadon Review
Congratulations. By posting this, not only is it obvious that you have never used any of the aforementioned tablets, but it also then strongly suggests that you have never used anything related to the Windows 8 ecosystem - and possibly even anything outside your own personal little bubble.
Personally, I don't care how much of a twat you make of yourself. However, consider this: open source is all about it's community. Now I for one would not want to be any part of a community that has no tolerance for people who do things differently to them - it would be like living in a block of flats where the guy upstairs plays loud music all night.
In short - your bile and ranting will only serve to drive people away from Linux and the open source community.
or in terms that you might understand:
EADON LINUX COMMUNITY REPRESENTATION EPIC, EPIC MULTIVERSAL FAIL
God, I feel unclean after typing that.
