Read more.Several tablet vendors switch away from MediaTek to snuggle up to Chipzilla.
Read more.Several tablet vendors switch away from MediaTek to snuggle up to Chipzilla.
It's 'Bat Trail T' platform, eh? It's a better name than theirs, but you may want to correct it
mtyson (02-01-2014)
If you have a Bay Trail Atom chip, you may as well run full-fat Windows 8 rather than Android. Unless you're really wedded to certain Android-only apps (which you could run in bluestacks), you still get a portable device with a touchscreen for basic email/reading/video (because who really cared what Os is wrapped around those tasks?), but that you can sit down next to a bluetooth keyboard and mouse and have a full fledged proper computer that can run proper programs and do actual useful stuff.
"So we expect to see Intel powered Android tablets in the $99 budget range in the not too distant future"
Do intel actually do "budget"
Cant wait to see their offerings.
If Intel are elbowing MediaTek out of the way it pretty much implies 'budget'.
I don't know, I actually prefer Android as a pure tablet OS. The only thing I find it lacks is native samba support for the rare occasions I need it and there are always apps to get around that (although obviously not as smooth as native support would be).
I see intels problem being that the new quad core ARM processors are more than fast enough for 99% of users and if the intel chips are more expensive I wonder who will actually use them.
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If they can get a full x86 chip in a $99 tablet running Android, I can't wait to see what partners come out with in the convertible or 2-in-1 Windows segment.
I still really want an Acer W510, but it's still using the older 2xxx series processor and still a little too expensive.
I'm hoping there are newer, better value models released soon after CES.
£250 bay trail quad core tablets are already out there. I'll be holding off a little while yet though - want to see what happens with the dual core bay trails and AMD's Mullins platform. But as far as use case goes I'm with edzieba: if I'm going to have a tablet that I carry around all the time, I may as well have one that will run every program I've ever used on a PC as well as all the tablety MUI stuff.
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