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

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Intel’s CEO says new 'Bay Trail' Windows 8 devices will be much more affordable.

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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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Originally Posted by watercooled

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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MS are offering lower licensing costs on smaller devices too

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

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...

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.

to hit that price point some specs are going to be very weak, including the screen I'd guess...

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Originally Posted by 3dcandy

to hit that price point some specs are going to be very weak, including the screen I'd guess...

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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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Originally Posted by ET3D

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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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.