Windows RT: Where do we go from here?


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When it first came out, it seemed like a sort of stop-gap. Sure there was excitement and for the most part. It didn?t disappoint due to the giant step forward of the Metro user interface. Then most looked to the future-to the Slate RT?s bigger brother-the Pro. That seemed like the culmination of the tablet experience. With Pro you get all of the same awesome of tablets combined with all of the awesome of running your favorite regular Windows programs. When compared to this, RT seemed kind of dumb.

There has been a lot of questions about why Microsoft keeps the lesser of the two OS?s around. After all, why buy the RT when you can just spend a bit more and run everything you would on your computer?

 

 

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What regular Windows programs is this guy trying to run on a tablet, and why? :wacko:

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battery alone is worth the tradeoff for some uses

 

no, you can get the exact same battery life in the exact same size and form factor. battery is no longer the issue. BUT, arm is still cheaper than intel,so that's the advantage right now, and that's why RT will still exist until the day you can get intel chips with the same performance and battery life for the same price.

 

I figure the older SoCs and components are very cheap currently. I don't see why stubborn OEMs will not make nice and very cheap priced rt tablets in the $200 range. it is possible,but they just don't get it.

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no, you can get the exact same battery life in the exact same size and form factor. battery is no longer the issue. BUT, arm is still cheaper than intel,so that's the advantage right now, and that's why RT will still exist until the day you can get intel chips with the same performance and battery life for the same price.

 

I figure the older SoCs and components are very cheap currently. I don't see why stubborn OEMs will not make nice and very cheap priced rt tablets in the $200 range. it is possible,but they just don't get it.

 

wut?

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I chose the Surface RT over the Pro simply because I didn't want a laptop in a funny form factor. Plus the RT has a great battery life in comparison to the Pro. Only thing I am missing is Outlook, Project and Visio but they are due shortly I guess

 

Outlook is on my RT after upgrading to the 8.1 preview.

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wut?

you missed the last part at the end of my sentence, the three things must be all available together, performance,batterylife and price. the two first features are available, but price is not equivalent. you can buy cheaper intel chips, but performance and battery life are crap and not useful for tablets or small thin devices.

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you missed the last part at the end of my sentence, the three things must be all available together, performance,batterylife and price. the two first features are available, but price is not equivalent. you can buy cheaper intel chips, but performance and battery life are crap and not useful for tablets or small thin devices.

 

obviously when you compare something you hold all else to be equal. you can get the same battery life with an Intel chip, but you'll need a bigger battery. so you can't do it in the same form factor unless you use more expensive battery technology that may or may not exist. as long as x86 isn't as power efficient as ARM, there will always be a battery advantage that you'd have to work around to get par results. Not to mention battery life is clearly superior on the Surface RT than on the Pro, despite a bigger battery on the latter.

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obviously when you compare something you hold all else to be equal. you can get the same battery life with an Intel chip, but you'll need a bigger battery. so you can't do it in the same form factor unless you use more expensive battery technology that may or may not exist. as long as x86 isn't as power efficient as ARM, there will always be a battery advantage that you'd have to work around to get par results. Not to mention battery life is clearly superior on the Surface RT than on the Pro, despite a bigger battery on the latter.

 

the intel atom z2760  cpu actually has better performance to power ratio than the arm cpu used in the surface RT and pretty much most of the arm chips released during that time of release. you can find all the testing and results on anadtech. the acer w510 is virtually the same thickness as the surface rt (0.38" vs 0.37"),yet it has equivalent battery life and better cpu performance. only problem with the atom chip, its more expensive for these device manufacturers.

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