These things were supposed to be $99 by christmas. Where are they? All I see is the same stupid companies still trying to charge $500+ for low performance hardware on a terrible software platform.
These things were supposed to be $99 by christmas. Where are they? All I see is the same stupid companies still trying to charge $500+ for low performance hardware on a terrible software platform.
Agreed, my understanding was that these would be CloverTrail(+) based machines running Android.They didnt say these $99 tablets would be based on Bay Trail though.
These things were supposed to be $99 by christmas. Where are they? All I see is the same stupid companies still trying to charge $500+ for low performance hardware on a terrible software platform.
They didnt say these $99 tablets would be based on Bay Trail though. Most BT-T tablets range from $199-399. Dell Venue 11 Pro is one of the few costing $500+ and it looks like a high build quality device which also supports Core ix processors.
Agreed, my understanding was that these would be CloverTrail(+) based machines running Android.
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announced that more than 20 Android and Windows* 8 tablets based on Intel's new Bay Trail processor family will be on sale by the US holiday season, with prices ranging to below $100.
Posted earlier in the thread was an hp tablet with a 1024x600 screen (no clue what scren technology), front facing camera, and intel single core 1.6 ghz for $89. It was posted on walmart's website prior to the product announcement so walmart took the page down.
If Cherry Trail-T has 16 EUs I wonder how many EUs Broadwell GT1/GT2/GT3/GT4 will have.
I'd say 16/32/64/96? (compared to 10/20/40 in Haswell).
ASUS T100 64GB available for $349 (regular price $399):
http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Transform...ansformer+t100
Did an impulse buy and bought this, will be receiving hopefully on tuesday. Anything anybody wants me to run in particular?.
On another note I love paying 4 dollars to get 1 day shipping with Amazon prime.
Before you plop down $499 for that new iPad Air, consider that you could pick up a speedy tablet that lasts even longer on a charge and comes with a built-in keyboard for $150 less. The ASUS Transformer Book T100 is just one of several compelling tablets and hybrids powered by Intels new Bay Trail platform that are now hitting shelves. This third-generation Atom chip is set to do for Windows tablets what its ancestor did for netbooks, while helping Intel gain share from ARM-based competitors such as Qualcomm and Nvidia in the Android space.e
Made with the same 22-nanometer manufacturing process as Intels 4th generation Core Series, Bay Trail processors offer plenty of power for real productivity, media playback and casual gaming. Yet because of their low-power design and Intels aggressive pricing quad-core Bay Trail CPUs appear in a new-generation of budget-minded Windows tablets...
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The promise of Intels latest Bay Trail processor is better performance and battery life. Dells Venue 8 Pro certainly delivers on both, powered by Intels quad-core Atom Z3740D processor, which clocks in at 1.8GHz. I never had any noticeable slowdowns or issues with the Windows 8-style apps, and even desktop apps ran well. I used Chrome and Photoshop regularly with a keyboard, mouse, and monitor, and I was pleasantly surprised by the performance and multitasking.
Dells Venue 8 Pro battery life is equally impressive. The Verge Battery Test, which cycles through a series of websites and images at 65 percent brightness, scored it at 11 hours and 55 minutes. Due to the screen-dimming issue, I decided to test it with auto brightness disabled and the results were very different: 7 hours and 33 minutes. Dells display is rated at 400 nits, so theres clearly a big gap in battery performance when the auto brightness feature isnt working correctly. Despite this, standby is reasonable too: I didnt notice a considerable drain, only around 5 percent, if I left the Venue 8 Pro alone for 24 hours and picked up where I left off. Gaming is the only task that I noticed really hit the battery life.
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Paul Thurrott said the display was beautiful, yet The Verge gave it a 6/10 (old ipad mini at least got a 7 and was 1024x768).
Its kind of sad that they're THAT biased.
At just $299 the Dell Venue 8 Pro is certainly the best Windows-based 8-inch tablet Ive used so far, but with Lenovo and Toshiba already offering similar competition I suspect there will be even more on the way shortly.