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Rumor: Microsoft Is Slashing The Price Of Windows For Tablets To Fight Android
Business Insider ^ | 04/02/2013 | Jay Yarrow

Posted on 04/02/2013 6:57:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: Revolting cat!

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.


41 posted on 04/03/2013 7:07:18 AM PDT by AppyPappy (You never see a massacre at a gun show.)
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To: AppyPappy

Sleep/hibernate doesn’t work on my otherwise excellent Toshiba. Or rather, wake up doesn’t work. But that’s probably a hardware issue.


42 posted on 04/03/2013 9:25:53 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: circlecity

“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.


43 posted on 04/03/2013 9:33:57 AM PDT by minor49er ("We're in a war, dammit! We're going to have to offend someone!" - John Adams)
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To: circlecity
Maybe the younger generation brought up on cellphones and tablets don't feel the same ways.

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.

44 posted on 04/03/2013 10:10:28 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Revolting cat!

It’s a Toshiba. I need to check a BIOS setting for hpet.


45 posted on 04/03/2013 10:33:22 AM PDT by AppyPappy (You never see a massacre at a gun show.)
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