Sunday, June 10, 2012

Want The Works? Try Windows 7 For Tablets

By Paul Barber


What does this have to offer and how is it different from other operating systems? Let's examine it.Compared to other long established or even more favored mobile operating systems, Windows 7 for tablets offers a different kind of user experience. It offers the power and capabilities of Windows 7, quite literally at your fingertips.



The Difference

The most outstanding difference between Windows 7 for tablets and the other mobile operating systems is that it was not designed for tablet Computers in mind. The OS requires a different processor architecture (one that you would normally find in a desktop, laptop PC or netbook) so you can not simply take a new tablet made for Android and install Windows 7 in it. IOS and Android, the 2 most popular mobile operating systems for tablet Computers and smartphones are made especially for ARM processors, which are essentially SoCs (system-on-a-chip) with GPU, RAM, and other parts built in. Windows 7, on the other hand, supports Intel and AMD chips.



Except for the processor difference, Windows 7 for tablets also has got a different set of minimum hardware requirements: 1 GHz processor, 1 GB RAM, and 16 GB of free drive space, amongst others. As you will observe, Windows tablets have bigger storage drives compared with iOS and Android tablets - with some featuring as big as 320 GB HDDs. Other Windows new tablets are equipped with solid state drives (SSDs) and while tech specifications vary from model to model, the hardware is often akin to that of netbooks.



Familiarity with Windows 7 for tablets

What is the general upside to using a Windows 7 tablet? Well, for one thing, it;s fair to say that there is a big chance you're already conversant with it and so the only thing you'd need to learn is using touch input as the OS has in-built support. If you do not plan on deserting traditional input methods (keyboard and mouse) though, then you'd be pleased to grasp that there's a wide variety of Windows 7 tablets with USB ports. Some are even built to be convertible (with a keyboard dock) or hybrid tablets (with a keyboard built in). What else can you get out of Windows 7 for tablets? Windows applications and Microsoft Office are 2 things that straight away spring to mind.



At any rate, the Windows tablet is kind of cool most particularly for corpo applications since it is mobile, powerful, and extremely versatile. Microsoft is working on its prior version, Windows 8, and we will see how that fares against the competition. Early tablet PC reviews have high hopes though if some tablet PC news reports are going to be assumed, it's still some months before we see it.






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