Thursday, May 17, 2012

What Can You ExpectFrom Windows 7 For Tablets?

By Paul Barber


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



The Difference

The most prominent difference between Windows 7 for tablets and the other mobile operating systems is that it wasn't designed for tablet Computers under consideration. The OS requires a different processor architecture (one that you would usually find in a desktop, portable computer or netbook) so you can't simply take a new tablet made for Android and install Windows 7 in it. IOS and Android, the two most popular mobile operating systems for tablet Computers and smartphones are made specifically for ARM processors, which are essentially SoCs (system-on-a-chip) with GPU, RAM, and other elements built in. Windows 7, from an alternative perspective, supports Intel and AMD chips.



Aside from the processor difference, Windows 7 for tablets also has a different set of minimum hardware requirements: 1 GHz processor, 1 GB RAM, and 16 GB of free drive space, amongst others. As you'll notice, Windows tablets have bigger storage drives compared with iOS and Android-based tablets - with some featuring as large as 320 GB HDDs. Other Windows tablets are kitted out with solid state drives (SSDs) and while technical specifications differ from model to model, the hardware is generally equivalent to that of netbooks.



Familiarity with Windows 7 for tablets

The question is what is the general upside to actually using a Windows 7 tablet? Well, for one thing, it's fair to say there's a large chance you're already acquainted with it and so the only thing you'd need to learn is using touch input as the OS has inbuilt support. If you do not plan on completely abandoning standard input techniques (keyboard and mouse) though, then you'd be delighted 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 are you able to get out of Windows 7 for tablets? Windows applications and Microsoft Office are 2 things that immediately spring to mind.



At any rate, the Windows tablet is kind of cool particularly for corpo applications since it is mobile, strong, and flexible. Microsoft is working on its predecessor, Windows 8, and we shall 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 believed, it's still some months before we see it.








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