2011年3月4日星期五

Top 5 Windows 7-based tablet contenders

Apple iPad 2 will not face competition from Microsoft as the Windows OS maker will not release its tablet-specific OS until 2012.

Bloomberg cited people with knowlede of the plan who confirmed that Microsoft will not launch its tablet OS "until the 2012 back-to-school season".

The report follows Apple's launch of the next edition of iPad 2. Also some other key recent launches include Android tablets from Samsung, LG, HTC and a webOS tablet from HP. The tablet sphere now boasts tablets running on multiple operating systems which include webOS, iOS 4.3, Android 3.0 or Gingerbread and RIM's QNX.

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Microsoft will certainly be late to the tablet party by a year. The reasons could include its efforts to create Windows OS specifically for ARM processors. The new OS from Microsoft will possibly be called Windows 8.

Currently, Microsoft has a breed of tablets running on Windows 7. It launched a bevy of tablets at CES 2011. However, Windows 7 tablets are known to be large sized and heavy. Also they offer dismal battery performance. Like the recently launched ASUS Slate EP 121 sports a 12.1-inch display, weighs 2.5 pounds and offers a battery life of 3.5 hours.

In comparison, the recently released iPad 2 with 9.7-inch display weighs about 1.3 pounds and offers a battery life of 10 hours. The iPad 2 now offers a faster A5 dual-core chip and is also 33 percent thinner than its predecessor. The iPad 2 is 0.4 inches thin. It also offers a front-facing VGA camera and a rear-facing camera with 720p video capture support. It brings the goodness of its latest OS, the iOS 4.3, on a 9.7-inch display with screen resolution of 1024x768. It also brings enhancements to AirPlay feature and a faster Safari web browser.

However, Microsoft has a few good Windows 7 running tablets in its, camp like the ASUS Eee Slate EP 121, Lenovo's Windows 7 Slate, Motion CL 900, MSI WindPad 100W and HP Slate 500, which can compete against the iPad 2.

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