Windows 8 Tablets
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While CEO Steve Ballmer talked Windows 8 at his keynote and showed a Qualcomm instance tablet running Windows 8, Intel's Paul Otellini briefly showed a and Lenovo unveiled its innovative IdeaPad Yoga, a Windows 8-primed convertible notebook whose... Ceaseless 7, Testing 8 A few Chinese tablet makers displayed tablets of distinctly generic design running Windows 7, but only one spoke specifically to Windows 8 plans. Kupa exhibited the tablet perpetual the Windows 8 Developer's Preview, and billed it as Windows 8-ready thanks to its 1366-by-768-pixel, 16:9 viewpoint ratio display -- which matches to Microsoft's optimized target for Windows 8. But beyond the Yoga -- an inventive concept that's cultivate for making noise at a big event like CES -- none of the tablet makers were ready to talk about Windows 8 on a tablet, and what we might expect to see in that deportment factor. One tablet maker, Kupa, showed off its X11, a Windows 7 tablet available now that runs an Intel Atom Z670 processor. Making allowance for that 2012 will be the year of Microsoft's dramatic upgrade to Windows 8, one might have thought the floor of the Consumer Electronics Show last week would be filled with expected hardware platforms for the new Windows operating... and to the specs of Samsung's Series 7 tablet , distributed to Microsoft Base attendees last fall with the Windows 8 preview preinstalled.
Source: PCWorld (blog)