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Originally Posted by VaporPunk
MS is shooting itself in the foot with its W8 licensing costs.I was really hoping that this would become a three horse race this fall, not so optimistic anymore.  |
MS Windows 8 tablets will be a success in the business market alone. The challenge will be the consumer market. Have they indicated how much the licensing costs will be? I can't imagine it will be very much.
I would consider a Windows 8 tablet if it has fully functional Windows running on a very energy efficient Intel processor. I want to be able to run all Windows programs, an ARM processor would only make sense if everybody and his dog would recompile their programs for ARM --- and I don't see that happen. So a lot of the functionality will be left out.
But give me a fully functional computer with a finger friendly interface, 6 hours battery life running flash video (10+ hours for everything else), weighing in at 600 grams with a 10" screen, a micro SD slot and HDMI out ---- I would pay a lot more for that than for any Android or IOS tablet.