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    News - Intel Atom based Windows 8 touch devices to start at $200

    Intel’s CEO says new 'Bay Trail' Windows 8 devices will be much more affordable.
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    Re: News - Intel Atom based Windows 8 touch devices to start at $200

    I don't hold much hope for the rest of the hardware if you can fit an Atom SoC and Windows 8 into $200 and still make a profit...

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    Re: News - Intel Atom based Windows 8 touch devices to start at $200

    Quote Originally Posted by watercooled View Post
    I don't hold much hope for the rest of the hardware if you can fit an Atom SoC and Windows 8 into $200 and still make a profit...
    MS are offering lower licensing costs on smaller devices too

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    Re: News - Intel Atom based Windows 8 touch devices to start at $200

    How much lower though? $200 - Atom doesn't leave much for hardware alone.

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    Re: News - Intel Atom based Windows 8 touch devices to start at $200

    This is the price point Windows RT tablets should really be occupying -

    There's a million ARM based tablets sub $200, but none using microsoft...
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    Re: News - Intel Atom based Windows 8 touch devices to start at $200

    Margins would be rather thin I imagine, even RT has some pretty steep storage requirements compared to Android.

    A cheap Atom powered Ubuntu device might be cool though.

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    Re: News - Intel Atom based Windows 8 touch devices to start at $200

    to hit that price point some specs are going to be very weak, including the screen I'd guess...
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    Re: News - Intel Atom based Windows 8 touch devices to start at $200

    Quote Originally Posted by 3dcandy View Post
    to hit that price point some specs are going to be very weak, including the screen I'd guess...
    I agree. That's why I doubt this price point. Of course, it's possible they're talking about a netbook equivalent with touch, which would be meh.

    A $200 7" x86 Windows windows tablet would be almost insta-buy for me.

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    Re: News - Intel Atom based Windows 8 touch devices to start at $200

    Quote Originally Posted by ET3D View Post
    I agree. That's why I doubt this price point. Of course, it's possible they're talking about a netbook equivalent with touch, which would be meh.

    A $200 7" x86 Windows windows tablet would be almost insta-buy for me.
    I'll be honest, a netbook spec Windows Tablet would do me just fine. As long as it was light and had decent battery life and you could connect a keyboard, turning it into... a netbook. I've been using netbooks as my general purpose PC for years now, anything demanding is done on my big desktop.

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