ARM has had secure boot (ROM), and experience with Windows since Windows Embedded CE6.0 – maybe adding the extra ROM does add an incremental cost to a tablet on the same ARM A9 multicore that HP uses in its Slate 7 tablets. But $900 for the Intel-based Hewlett-Packard equivalent tablet with Windows 8 seems a little high (Intel Atom ? 2-core processor).
Let’s leave aside Hewlett-Packard’s business decisions. It was just an idle thought of mine that they didn’t produce a WinRT version of Slate 7. If one dislikes Windows OS on tablets – or maybe is “going off” the Windows platform altogether (? Scott Barnes), then there’s no discussion to be had. But getting back to WinRT vs Android for tablets. Windows 8 phone OS appears to run comfortably on 1Gb RAM with single-core processors (eg, Nokia Lumia 920/925 – Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor which uses the ARM v7 instruction set, and has a decent GPU), so I can’t see that Windows RT tablets should be dismissed. Of course they’re not going to run Intel-based software but my understanding (simple reference <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRT> ) is that a .NET runtime similar to Silverlight runs on WinRT and application development should not be a whole new world. _____ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2013 8:50 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: Tablets - WinRT and Android WinRT requires SecureBoot (so UEFI) and whole disk encryption, and probably a bunch of other things, so generic ARM hardware may not suffice. Cheers Ken From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: Friday, 21 June 2013 3:03 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: Tablets - WinRT and Android (tangential to VS2012 hacks) Yes, that was my thought – the Slate 7 hardware has ARM processor, and the WinRT would be a good fit. Then HP would have directly competing Android vs Windows tablets. The US prices on (Android) Slate 7 are under $200. But the Nexus 7 is a better-configured tablet ($+) – 3G/HSPA+ ($AU350 or so). _____ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 12:36 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: VS2012 hacks Just Pro, AFAIK. You'd think that the hardware for Android would be a good match for RT, though? Query for Microsoft: is RT available as a piece of software, or only sold with hardware? Mike On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Ian Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: Yes, I was going to raise that with you off-list Mike. The ones I know of are the (Android) Slate 7 range and the ElitePad 800 and 900 (Win8 and Win8Pro) – quite a different price bracket, though. I didn’t know there was a Windows8 Slate (WinRT ?).
