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11-05-2012, 04:42 PM | #63 |
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RT taking up 18gb is crazy it's meant to be a simple mobile OS, I really wouldn't want to be downloading updates of that size regardless of it having a Micro Sd slot.
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11-05-2012, 04:54 PM | #65 |
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I beg to differ. Windows RT is meant to be easy to use, but offers a lot more than those mobile OSs. At the moment most of that is still a promise only, of course. It probably will take another 6 months or so.
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Keep in mind that 5GB is just a restore partition so that you can restore to clean without a USB drive.
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11-05-2012, 05:32 PM | #68 |
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RT is meant to be the lightweight Arm version which can't run any real windows programs it's what is mean't to compete with the iPad and android Tablets.
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It is excessive, no doubt. But we just have established that you could get an additional 5GB, if you wanted, by deleting the restore partition. Which makes sense on a device with access to external storage.
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11-05-2012, 06:04 PM | #74 | |
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Actually, all future Windows 8 programs will be running on RT, as long as they were written for the Metro UI. It is the legacy ones that won't run. As far as the locked Windows store, it will depend on how they handle it. Will they just check programs so that they are virus free or will they try to keep out the "undesirable" programs? From what I have heard it is not exactly difficult to get programs approved. Though I do agree, I don't like them following the Apple model in this case. Last edited by HansTWN; 11-05-2012 at 06:48 PM. |
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MS isn't trying to match iOS and Android, they've looking to *leapfrog* past them. That much they've said openly and repeatedly: their vision is one OS and one *app codebase* from phones to mainframes. Tablets that run the same apps as desktops, not two different codebases (say, MacOS and iOS or Linux and Android). And yes, RT is a lightweight install compared to the x86 install simply because it doesn't carry the bulk of legacy code necessary for backwards compatibility on the x86 computers but it isn't a limited OS. If that was all MS intended they would've simply put some advertising money to push WinCE instead of betting the farm on a new API set. Historically, MS OSes have usually demanded high-end hardware resources--faster processors and more RAM than the low-end in use at launch--and then let the hardware catch up. It is only recently, with Win7 and the need to accomodate netbooks that MS developed an OS with low-end requirements. |
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