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How will Windows 7 Tablets perform compared to Andoid based units.
The Android based products coming this fall look very interesting and will likely be less expensive.
It would be interesting - and I'm betting that no-one is going to be bowled over by it. The 32Gb SSD, provided it's fast enough, will give a dramatically different experience to those used to Atom performance with a 2.5" platter drive. Whether its enough to mask the inadequacy of the Atom in touch use, where the immediacy of user interaction is the key element, is something else.
I'm still a bit confused by the actual in-market niche definitions for Windows 7 and Windows Embedded 7 CE, but in terms of how Windows 7 deals with touch, you *need* an effective touch-aware Explorer replacement. And in this respect, it seems that Microsoft are happy for vendors to do their own thing - and I think this is a disaster in the making. Handing over a totally vital part of the user experience to what will usually be a budget *hardware* maker is - unless someone pulls an HTC hat out of the ring - is, IMO, MS dropping the ball big-time. They need to do the same as WP7 and impose a common user experience, which will encourage developer extensions. For example I've been using an X201T for a while, and I find that I get sufficiently frustrated by using an unskinned Windows to put it back into laptop mode when I'm not 'inking' - there's still a major dissonance in the user interface and there's only one company that can genuinely sort it out - and that's Microsoft, not MSI / Asus / Lenovo / insert as applicable.
Android will of course be 'iPad-lite' in terms of the way they work, and there shouldn't be any issues there. Android tablets will be cheaper even considering that they don't need to pack the Atom - more likely than not, they'll outfit a machine with minimum memory and leave it up to the user to expand via SD slots.
As I've said elsewhere though, I'd like to see a machine with *higher* product quality and higher specs than the iPad from either, or both, of these platforms. And as I also said, unless Sony (or maybe Lenovo, although they seem to have a habit of abandoning their best-looking prototypes) gets involved I doubt we'll see that.
I'm still a bit confused by the actual in-market niche definitions for Windows 7 and Windows Embedded 7 CE, but in terms of how Windows 7 deals with touch, you *need* an effective touch-aware Explorer replacement. And in this respect, it seems that Microsoft are happy for vendors to do their own thing - and I think this is a disaster in the making. Handing over a totally vital part of the user experience to what will usually be a budget *hardware* maker is - unless someone pulls an HTC hat out of the ring - is, IMO, MS dropping the ball big-time. They need to do the same as WP7 and impose a common user experience, which will encourage developer extensions. For example I've been using an X201T for a while, and I find that I get sufficiently frustrated by using an unskinned Windows to put it back into laptop mode when I'm not 'inking' - there's still a major dissonance in the user interface and there's only one company that can genuinely sort it out - and that's Microsoft, not MSI / Asus / Lenovo / insert as applicable.
Android will of course be 'iPad-lite' in terms of the way they work, and there shouldn't be any issues there. Android tablets will be cheaper even considering that they don't need to pack the Atom - more likely than not, they'll outfit a machine with minimum memory and leave it up to the user to expand via SD slots.
As I've said elsewhere though, I'd like to see a machine with *higher* product quality and higher specs than the iPad from either, or both, of these platforms. And as I also said, unless Sony (or maybe Lenovo, although they seem to have a habit of abandoning their best-looking prototypes) gets involved I doubt we'll see that.
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