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Does anyone know if the RT will come with Win Explorer and allow you to freely move content onto and off of the device? That's one limitation of today's portble devices that is driving me nuts.
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In reality, the Surface is no better than what you can get from your desktop PC today. But perhaps that's good enough for a lot of folks? Personally, I like the push towards high DPI displays just because it means you can get sharp text *and* accurate text at the same time. I find it a bit easier to focus on and read, personally. Quote:
However, anything designed for the new UI is built on a variation of .NET, which is compiled down to whatever ARM or x86 needs when it is time to run. With a keyboard and trackpad so easily available, I suspect content creation apps written for the new UI will be a lot easier to come by. Those apps will also run on Windows RT and Windows Pro without any changes. Quote:
Windows RT has the Windows desktop available. However, you can only use the built-in apps, and the desktop is really only there to support Office 2013. Win Explorer is available, but I'm left wondering what will happen to the desktop in Windows RT when Office is fully updated into the new UI. Last edited by Kolenka; 10-18-2012 at 11:25 AM. |
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10-18-2012, 11:52 AM | #95 |
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I'm totally impressed by the variety of upcoming Windows 8 devices. Guess this is the beginning of major shifts in the tablet market.
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10-18-2012, 11:52 AM | #96 |
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I liked the ad. It was cheerful, colorful, and well choreographed. But then, I judge advertising purely on entertainment value and/or emotional impact. The thing I'm most likely to purchase after seeing a commercial is the song featured in it. How well a product is demonstrated is meaningless to me because I get that sort of info elsewhere.
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10-18-2012, 12:23 PM | #97 | |
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It has been renamed File Explorer. And both versions of Windows will have it. http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/29/31...ndows-explorer |
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Beyond that, there is the matter of what the rest of the system *does* do with that available resource. The quality of the graphics chip, the drivers, the OS graphics sub-system, and the application you are running. What MS is saying is that they can get more quality out of WXGA with RT than Apple does out of QXGA with iOS. Which may very well be literally true but doesn't address the basic fact that Windows RT could get even better quality out of a FullHD panel. There is a difference between getting the most out of a lower resolution panel and offering up a higher resolution display. One area where native higher resolution pays off is in HD video playback where displaying a full HD stream at native resolution will stress the CPU/GPU less than scaling it down for display on a lower resolution display. Obviously, a corporate PC will care less about resolution than a media pad since HD video playback isn't mission critical at most corporations. But for some consumers... |
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I expect this won't be the last tablet produced with a removable keyboard/cover.
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For example they say that MTF is made up of more than just resolution, but don't actually say that the Surface's MTF is better than the iPad's. They are stuck with a low res screen in a high res screen market, and are trying to talk a good game to make the most of it. Quote:
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So, I bought an iPad 3. And I love it. But I am also fully aware of its (self imposed) limitations. But a full Windows tablet with a battery life comparable to an iPad would be spectacular. |
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As pointed out above, Apple does simple antialiasing, whereas MS does sub-pixel addressing and font hinting, among other techniques. Also, the benefit from using FullHD screen for HD video is on CPU/GPU loading; you can get smooth playback even with lesser processor power if you just map the stream to the display and don't have to scale it after decoding it. With the New iPad most of the extra power (from the iPad2) in the GPU goes to just getting the screen working smoothly. So MS may have gone with the lower-res screen not necessarily to save money but to spare the processors and make the system snappier and more responsive. |
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Easily worth Ultrabook pricing. (I have an older HP Tablet PC I intend to upgrade to Win8 somebody delivers the DreamPad. Good to hear Win8 will improve performance, what I have under Vista is fine but improvement never hurt.) |
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Is that really an issue for modern GPUs? The $35 Raspberry Pi can handle scaling 1080p video to display on smaller screens.
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