Read more.This is one of the first Windows 8.1 devices to debut and is due in Nov priced at $329/£250.
Read more.This is one of the first Windows 8.1 devices to debut and is due in Nov priced at $329/£250.
As has been said many times before in many places ... 32GB for a full fat Windows install leaves very little onboard storage. This needs to really be a minimum of 64GB, ideally 128GB.
True but it does have a micro SD card slot which will help matters not to mention the micro USB port. Although I'd still rather have a new Nexus as a tablet and a laptop for more productive tasks - just so much easier having the extra storage and power of a lappy coupled with better connectivity.
128Gb on a £200 tablet? 64GB I can see as doable.
I think this highlights one of the difficulties that Microsoft have created ... they are being criticised for creating a product that (number of apps aside) can do everything an ipad can, but can also do pretty much all of what a laptop can... they are not being congratulated for that achievement because people are just saying 'well the 32GB one that costs less than a 16GB ipad can only store 16gb of content so is useless to me' ....
£200 - £250 for this and one will be in my bag to work each day.
Apart from the awful design and slightly low storage, this is great value, the nexus 7 32GB is only a slight bit cheaper, although 1080p would have been nice. Specs are solid though, I wonder how the quad core bay trail would perform in games
Still just seems a little too late....like WP8
Old puter - still good enuff till I save some pennies!
A 10" for £300-£350 and I'd be in like a shot, even if it lacks the horsepower to run 'serious' software. The applications I want to run on such a device are not too demanding, but they are native Windows. So RT was always completely useless to me.
I might even be tempted by this, eventually, if nothing else grabs my attention. It's clearly going top be a compromise in terms of weight & performance, given Win8's demands, but I can probably live with that.
My thinking's the same as yours - especially if that USB port could support a keyboard/mouse dongle. "Lack" of storage doesn't bother me - after all 64GB uSD cards aren't exactly difficult to get hold of.
A list of £250 sounds good, and IF Toshiba can get them into Tesco's, Sainsbury's, etc then I think it could do very well - maybe even put the iPad Mini at the back of the list (where it belongs imho).
Take a look at the Dell Outlet for the Latitude 10. Plenty of stock, prices from £227 inc VAT and up depending on the configuration you go for - 32/64/128gb storage Wifi/Wifi+3G, 2 cell (10 hour) or 4 cell (20 hour) battery, Win 8 or Win 8 Pro etc. I got a fully loaded 128GB, 3G, 4 Cell Win 8 Pro for £300 delivered a month and a bit a go - it's an absolute bargain, and the Atom processor is actually pretty darn good. Has a full-sized USB and SD card slot for extra storage too, nothing to fault it really
Andrew McP (09-09-2013)
After a bit of reading that would appear to be a very tempting bit of kit... at those kind of prices anyway. I know I'm not a huge fan of that screen resolution on the small Acer laptop which now lives at my mother's place, but on a touch-based tablet it'll be easier to live with.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Would love to have one of these for work. Could finally get rid of my old Thinkpad for network diagnostics etc.
I liked it.
http://www.ebuyer.com/544478-acer-ic...c-nt-l1jek-001
Money where your mouth is? Of course the quad core bay trail CPU might make all the difference, but I suspect the Acer is a nice device to use. If I had to replace my playbook today it's what I'd go for (in the absence of a decent Win 8 AMD-powered tablet...)
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