New Microsoft tab pad. Anyone check it out yet?

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I'm looking to get the admiral a new tablet and the i-pad I got her last year doesn't seem to do everything she needs it to do. She needs the laptop characteristics from time to time. Does this have those types of features?
 
A few people got to play with them at the press event yesterday but for the most part they are still a mystery. There are two versions; the RT version is supposed to be available when Windows 8 is released this fall and the Pro version will be available three months later. The Pro version is most likely to be the laptop alternative but that is a guess on my part. I am going to the Microsoft partner conference in Toronto in three weeks and I hope that they have a few there.
 
I know they are new and the intel is sketchy right now but if anyone would know it would be you good folks on this site. Thanks Phlorida and let us know what you find out.
 
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I know they are new and the intel is sketchy right now but if anyone would know it would be you good folks on this site. Thanks Phlorida and let us know what you find out.
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Hey OldSkool - have your wife check out "OnLive" Desktop. It is an iPad app that accesses a Windows system. Then you can run Excel, IE, etc.
 
that clambook coming in the fall looks awesome. I wonder how much it'll cost.
 
I have been buying the keyboard case from Brookstone for some of our folks. They like it because the keyboard is removable from the case.

What can she not do on an iPad, just curious?
 
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why not just buy a laptop?
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X3. To me, tablets are just a fancy web browser/email/appointment book. Oh, and I guess they are good for "angry birds."

But a laptop can do so much more, without having to buy add ons (i.e. keyboard)
 
Great input guy's. She makes jewelry so she likes the ability to take pictures of stones and do dads and then built the whatever from the screen shot using photo shop or jewelry design apps. Too much stuff to take with her if she uses a laptop. I will be checking out the clam and Mac laptop.
Thanks again. This is why this is such a great site.
 
While I like the iPad, in the past I have thought the air a bit pricey. There seem to be a bunch of laptop and ultra book alternatives out there right now.

Actually, I have a decent company laptop, a personal desktop and an iPad right now. Each has it's place. The most underutilized is the desktop, but mostly because of my travel schedule. The iPad is great for travelers.
 
I can't believe anyone can be excited about anything that runs Windoze. If you factor in the time to futz with that crap, it's the most expensive and unproductive piece of crap software man created.

What do cruise ships, hookers and Microsoft have in common? Too many users and lots of viruses.

My businesses run on Mac/Linux/Unix.

I think the employee manual says you'll be fired if your name starts with Paul or you mention Microsoft.

Oh yeah... I hear Iran is moving to Mac to run their nuclear program.
 
The Iran nuclear program was/is operating with Siemens (German) PCS7 hardware -> which runs using proprietary software. These system ONLY operate industrial equipment, and don't do anything a consumer cares about (they don't do audio and video; don't run spreadsheets). Putting these machines on the internet is very foolhardy, and Iran did not make that mistake.

The operatating program for that hardware was compiled on a Windows machine using Siemens software. The virus was transmitted from an infected Windows machine to the PCS7 software which was compiled on it. Having these computers on the internet is also foolhardy. The virus was transmitted via thumbdrives.

I am not a expert in this area, but I don't know of any industrial applications of that class which are designed for the MAC platform. Given how this virus affected the systems -> being on a MAC would not have slowed down the development of the virus.

Siemens is not the *premier* supplier of industrial control computers, (I believe that is still Honeywell) but they are certainly top tier. The *implications* of a virus affecting specific industrial, non-consumer devices that are controlled by industrial non-consumer computers is rather staggering. If you can wreck centrifuges in a chemical plant -> you can wreck steam turbines in a power plant.


Gary's vitriol aside, I think his ancillary point is legit: I am very leery of Microsoft developing a serious tablet operating system. I will believe it when I see it. Google has had enough issues with it's Android platform for me to recognize that Microsoft won't get it right on the first pass.
 
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first pass? they have been trying to get it right for 20 years. the tablet isn't a new invention. MS failed many times. Apple got it right the first time.
 
Cornpop is so full of crap. He is making all that jibberish up. We all know the real reason Iran had an issue was some guy was trying to insert a graphic at the beginning of a large Microsoft Word document and it blew up the centrifuge... get your facts straight.
 
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Turtlesboat said:
first pass? they have been trying to get it right for 20 years. the tablet isn't a new invention. MS failed many times. Apple got it right the first time.
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Fair enough. I stand corrected.


Four Suns said:
Cornpop is so full of crap. He is making all that jibberish up. We all know the real reason Iran had an issue was some guy was trying to insert a graphic at the beginning of a large Microsoft Word document and it blew up the centrifuge... get your facts straight.
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. . . and we wonder why American business is so uncompetitive globally. :)
 
WOW Gary, I had that happen in my early days with MS too. Just before a huge team meeting I inserted a spread sheet and MS locked down losing the entire doc. Now there is a 5M jump drive attached to my laptop 24/7 to back everything up. As I complete a page in PPT I save it. No longer will I edit the entire PPT, hit save and watch all of my work lock out.
 
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