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| HP: no Windows 8 ARM tablets from us initially, only x86 |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-06-29 16:33:09 |
| HP has told Bloomberg reporter Dina Bass that the company has no plans to sell ARM-based Windows 8 tablets initially (thanks, The Verge) - it will only do x86 tablets. This may actually explain why Microsoft is getting into the business of selling its own tablets: other than Asus, not a single company has announced a Windows ARM tablet. Pretty abysmal start for Windows RT. |
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| By Hiev on 2012-06-29 16:45:36 |
| Dear HP, go with Android, Windows is the past, believe me, you won't make money out of Windows 8 tables. |
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| No other company has announced a Windows ARM tablet |
| By earksiinni on 2012-06-29 17:10:41 |
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Perhaps, but, http://armdevices.net/2012/06/17... |
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| RE: No other company has announced a Windows ARM tablet |
| By Thomas2005 on 2012-06-29 17:58:32 |
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Having an ARM-powered notebook would be nice, but having to go from typing on the keyboard to touching the screen will be an inconvenience at the least. To cycle through the apps there should be a key combo like ctrl+right|left arrow. Do we really have to touch the screen to bring up the search box, type the search with the keyboard, then touch the screen again to start the search? Edited 2012-06-29 18:02 UTC |
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| RE: No other company has announced a Windows ARM tablet |
| By ronaldst on 2012-06-29 18:10:01 |
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Thom also forgot that Microsoft selected 3 OEMs to make WoA tablets. I think the third one was Samsung. Chips were from TI, NVIDIA and Qualcomm. |
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| It's amazing |
| By reduz on 2012-06-29 18:58:26 |
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How much can Microsoft push vendors to create the products they want for Windows or Windows Phone, and even push vendors to not use Android... and so far it's been all failures. At the same time, Android is extremely popular and we believe Google is not pushing vendors enough, resulting in fragmentation. |
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| RE: No other company has announced a Windows ARM tablet |
| By some1 on 2012-06-29 19:22:45 |
| Yeah, but you can supposedly buy it with Ubuntu, ChromeOs or Android for $85 less. |
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| RT is an OEM version |
| By jefro on 2012-06-29 20:08:29 |
| If MS is marketing RT as an OEM version then why would they care so much about making a product of their own. The OS is for OEM's. |
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| RE: RT is an OEM version |
| By 0brad0 on 2012-06-29 20:29:56 |
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> If MS is marketing RT as an OEM version then why would they care so much about making a product of their own. The OS is for OEM's. Kinda hard for Windows RT to be successful when they can't get anyone to create the HW so they're doing it themselves. Microsoft is the OEM. Do you not know what OEM means? |
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| RE[2]: No other company has announced a Windows ARM tablet |
| By westlake on 2012-06-29 21:25:36 |
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> Yeah, but you can supposedly buy it with Ubuntu, ChromeOs or Android for $85 less. WinRT will ship with MS Office Home & Student. Office Home & Student is the #1 bestseller in OSX and Windows software. The tail the wags the dog. |
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| This is old news |
| By Nelson on 2012-06-29 22:19:01 |
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This has been known for a while, HP only really came out and admitted it today. It predates the Surface announcement. Microsoft is purposely limited the launch OEMs for Surface because of the varying degrees of readiness of chipset support. A Tegra is wildly different from a Snapdragon which is different from an OMAP. A fact lost on some people when hearing the umbrella term "ARM". IIRC, there are only a handful of OEMs given the green light for Windows RT. Nokia is presumably somewhere in the mix working with Qualcomm. I know ASUS is working with nVidea and Toshiba is working with TI. I don't think Windows RT is as ready for prime time as people would like to think. It would explain the buggy demos, the limited hands on, etc. |
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