Samsung Ativ Tab
I’ve been a little disappointed with Samsung’s recent Windows kit - the Windows Phone 8 Ativ S is a Galaxy S3 with a different OS while the overly plastic Ativ Smart PC is too expensive. As for the RT Ativ Tab, it seems to be made out of the same parts bin as the Galaxy Note 10.1. There’s nothing like the inventiveness on display from the other RT tablet-wallahs here - no funky transforming docks, origami stands or super-slim keyboards. It all feels a bit a rock band’s contractual obligation fifth album. It’s not what you’d call cheap, either.
All that said, there’s nothing actually wrong with the Ativ. Buried inside you’ll find the same Qualcomm APQ8090A Snapdragon dual-core 1.5GHz Krait-class chip that’s in the Dell XPS 10, while the screen resolution is the usual 1366 x 768. It’s reasonably well made, reasonably light, reasonably thin. It’s the Vauxhall Corsa of the 10-inch Windows tablet world and I really can’t think of anything else to say about it. Maybe that’s why Samsung isn’t even releasing it in the US, blaming Microsoft's failure to explain what RT is all about to punters.
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Sony Duo 11
When I first laid hands on the Asus Eee Pad Slider I thought one day all tablets will be made this way. I was wrong. The slide-out keyboard was too cramped for serious work, the mechanism made the whole thing too bulky for tablet use and the elevated screen angle was fixed. I was quite surprised then to see Sony travel down the same design path with its Duo 11. Like the Slider, the Duo is too thick and too heavy to be comfortably used as tablet and the keyboard too cramped. There’s no trackpad, either, though you do get a stylus.
It’s not all bad news. The 11.6-inch, 1920 x 1080 IPS LCD screen is a gem and if the entry-level 1.8GHz Core i3 CPU sounds too limp you can have an i5 or even an i7 chip. The last also packs a 256GB SSD and 8GB of Ram though it will set you back around £1400. It’s well connected too, with HDMI and VGA interfaces for connecting the Duo to a larger screen, plus two USB 3.0 ports and even Ethernet. Battery life is poor though - loop an HD video and you’ll be lucky to hit the three-hour mark - as is speaker quality. For the money I’d take the Lenovo ThinkPad Helix.
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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.
