Posted on 04/02/2013 6:57:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Microsoft is rumored to cut the price of Windows 8 for tablets by 35-40 percent, according to Topeka Capital analyst Brian White.
White is on a "China-Taiwan Technology Tour" talking to people in the industry.
Currently, according to White's source, the tablet price for Windows is the same as the desktop/laptop pricing.
If Microsoft is going to compete with Android, which is taking over the world, it needs to lower its price. Google's software is free. And it's just as good, if not better than, Windows on a tablet.
Since consumers aren't clamoring to buy Windows-based tablets, there's little reason for a manufacturer to offer a premium priced tablet from Microsoft.
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It’s hard to justify a tablet over a laptop/netbook.
My sister had a Vista box that virused so she bought another laptop. I wiped the Vista and installed Linux Mint 14. It works like a charm except for sleep/hibernate which doesn’t work. No viruses and it does everything I need.
Sleep/hibernate doesn’t work on my otherwise excellent Toshiba. Or rather, wake up doesn’t work. But that’s probably a hardware issue.
“Perhaps this is only true for longtime windows uses like myself who are very adept with their traditional product. Maybe the younger generation brought up on cellphones and tablets don’t feel the same ways.”
No. In my experience most hate it (myself included, because a touch screen environment on a desktop is a horrible idea) or are ambivalent at best. Also, keep in mind that my generation grew up on Apple cellphones and Ipods and Microsoft’s version just isn’t as flashy or cool.
Yeah, I thought that too, but I work with a bunch of young 'uns and the verdict is pretty solidly against Win8 as a desktop environment. A tablet isn't a desktop, true, but it isn't a cellphone either. And we're not really at the point where one user interface will rule them all, bring them in the darkness and bind them.
Maybe it never will. I use an iPad, a laptop, and a desktop for fundamentally different things. I'm very happy with the Surface Pro and could happily replace the 'Pad and the lappy with it on a hardware level, but replacing iOS and Win7 with one platform running Win8 just isn't a transition I'm willing to make - it's a downgrade to both of the former, IMHO.
Under the hood Win8 is actually pretty impressive. But the Metro interface is a deal breaker. Others' mileage may vary.
It’s a Toshiba. I need to check a BIOS setting for hpet.
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