Win8.1 tablet $59.99 @ Microcenter B&M

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

here's a video of a guy using it as his desktop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2jOFPgK9Bs

he said he updated the video drivers and he's running one of the vlc nightlies

 

[B-Riz]

If anyone is up for an experiment, I am wondering how this handles games, like Unreal Tournament.

Have been thinking about getting one of these to play some games on at lunch time.

Monitor is only 1280x1024 LCD; would use a USB hub like VirtualLarry for mouse / keyboard.

 

[geecee]

I don't know about unreal tournament, but the win 8 tablets below seem to be able to handle Starcraft 2 pretty well if you turn down the settings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9okBLbi7MrQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3Yi3RKknDw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hVpgzaRNgk

 

[ElFenix]

10" microcenter tablet plays games just fine - turn down the settings a bunch and native resolution is low anyway. civ 5 in touch mode is good stuff. if we're talking OG UT from 15 years ago it'll run just fine.

Also, steam streaming. Should get one of these just for that.

 

[lupi]

hot damn, just thought about that. the stream 7 should get some good use via gog on the trip next week.

 

[MSCoder610]

I got the HP Stream 7 recently (and it has the same CPU and resolution as the TW700, it looks like).

It can run old games fine - I tried Unreal Tournament and got >60FPS pretty easily. (By default it was really choppy in Direct3D, but using the UTGLR drivers (Direct3D or OpenGL) it was much better.)

Duke3D was also fine. I'll probably test more games later, it might even scale for something like Half-Life 2.

 

[infoiltrator]

Samsung seems to have the best reputation for mSDXC cards, though Sandisk is highly rated.
I put Crucial in my tablets with no trouble, my oldest is about 2 1/2 years. newegg on sale about $28:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231651
also used Team
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820313310

Sandisk
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...9SIA12K1ZX1919

I've heard of counterfeit cards (especially from ebay and others, but who knows).

 

[B-Riz]

I got the HP Stream 7 recently (and it has the same CPU and resolution as the TW700, it looks like).

It can run old games fine - I tried Unreal Tournament and got >60FPS pretty easily. (By default it was really choppy in Direct3D, but using the UTGLR drivers (Direct3D or OpenGL) it was much better.)

Duke3D was also fine. I'll probably test more games later, it might even scale for something like Half-Life 2.

Thanks for checking it out!

 

[drinkmorejava]

Samsung seems to have the best reputation for mSDXC cards, though Sandisk is highly rated.
I put Crucial in my tablets with no trouble, my oldest is about 2 1/2 years. newegg on sale about $28:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231651
also used Team
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820313310

Sandisk
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...9SIA12K1ZX1919

I've heard of counterfeit cards (especially from ebay and others, but who knows).

Just an FYI. The SD reader is not USB 3, so your speeds will be limited. No need to get a super fast 90mb/s card for this.

 

[BenJeremy]

Well, my brother-in-law dropped off three of these (My own is wrapped for Christmas), and a few things... the "WBOptimize.exe" application that they created to ease up some of the used space works, but it basically just does a few simple things. Also, Avira reported is as a trojan-infected binary, but that is more likely because it is a self-extracting zip file, and they probably used a packer. Ugh. Anyway, it seems like a false positive.

Also, you can get a lot of extra space by grabbing an 8GB USB stick (Recovery Drive) and using an SD card with the tips in this article.

Still playing with it. I was going to try the HDMI output, but of the 5 monitors I have sitting here in my computer room, the only one with HDMI input is my main system's center monitor. Both 1080p monitors lack hdmi input. I did plug in a powered USB hub to access the flash drive and use my logitech wireless keyboard/trackpad combo while getting these sorted out so my BIL can get one back to my niece and have the other two as gifts for his wife's relatives.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

if you're on their physical mailing list, you might be able to get a $25 coupon that you can use on this thing. wish i sold my office 365 key sooner. its down to $30 or so. All the race to the bottom guys are tanking the price. I might just keep it priced around $35 and ride out the bottom feeders.

 

[BenJeremy]

Well, my brother-in-law dropped off three of these (My own is wrapped for Christmas), and a few things... the "WBOptimize.exe" application that they created to ease up some of the used space works, but it basically just does a few simple things. Also, Avira reported is as a trojan-infected binary, but that is more likely because it is a self-extracting zip file, and they probably used a packer. Ugh. Anyway, it seems like a false positive.

Also, you can get a lot of extra space by grabbing an 8GB USB stick (Recovery Drive) and using an SD card with the tips in this article.

Still playing with it. I was going to try the HDMI output, but of the 5 monitors I have sitting here in my computer room, the only one with HDMI input is my main system's center monitor. Both 1080p monitors lack hdmi input. I did plug in a powered USB hub to access the flash drive and use my logitech wireless keyboard/trackpad combo while getting these sorted out so my BIL can get one back to my niece and have the other two as gifts for his wife's relatives.

Just another note... you can't delete the recovery partition on this device.

I'm still researching this, but you can ignore the article's advice about the recovery partition, since it is used to boot the device, apparently.