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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
Yeah, that's the price of having a minimum horsepower. So what !
My laptop don't hold much longer now.
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Yeah and I have a 1970s car that won't go for more than 80 miles without refilling the tank, so what?
And no that's not the price of having minimum horsepower, that's the price of having an x86 architecture which is inefficient for such a mobile device and an OS with legacy desktop code that needs 700mb of ram to boot. And of course none of that translates to actual performance gains, since arm mobile os devices are faster, run cooler, have better battery life and can do more things and in a better way on a tablet.
These are not opinions, they are facts. People can and do use and enjoy whatever device they prefer for a multitude of reasons. It's when they profess that some apparent problems with it are non existent that there's a problem. I used to own an old x86 wintel laptop for years, and I was a happy camper despite some glaring issues it had with all sorts of software and hardware inadequacies. I didn't need more, and I didn't do more. But I didn't go around trying to convince others that they shouldn't require more from their devices.
And I ll stop here, and refrain from posting in this thread, since I 've belaboured a point, and even worse belaboured a point that is pretty obvious. But when someone claims
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Using Windows 7 on a slate is an absolute MUST for it to be usable. No phone OS is even close to cutting the mustard. There seems to be many who miss this fact. Many consider this subjective, it is not.
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I mean one feels compelled to reply, especially when said windows 7 tablets (if they are not vapourware), then they sell less in a month than the ipad say sells in a 5 minutes. Surely all the people buying them can't be collectively less intelligent than the op.
