RT Windows Tablets: Rather notebook replacement as an iPad competitor
The most important question before the IFA was: Asus, Dell, Lenovo and Samsung finally trust with their Windows-RT Tablets from cover? In recent months, there were here and there an info-bites, a few times we could see, but not touchen.
The answer: At least two of the four manufacturers dare. We must look not only, also touchen. At the Samsung booth in Hall 20, visitors can play with the Ativ Tab and Asus made the press at his Vivo tab RT. So it's time for the next question: How good are the RT-Tablets? You really compete with the iPad? Or they cover different usage scenarios?
A complete conclusion is only after a proper test to be possible, so the end of October, if comply with the manufacturer for the promised launch date. Only then one can, for example, assess the application and content offerings. But stuff can be stated now:
Hardware: The RT-tablet from Asus and Samsung are a bit lighter and thinner than the iPad, the screen show only 1366 × 768 pixels (iPad: 2048 x 1536)
Speed: The Asus Tab settled operate absolutely smoothly. Also the browser, the vulnerability of many Android tablets responded as quick as on the iPad. Samsung Apps on the prototype took off pretty slow, but that was probably mainly due to the lame-Fi connectivity.
Endurance: Samsung promises twelve hours battery life for video playback. Check the leaves earlier than October.
Operating concept: All advertised RT Tablets can dock to a keyboard (besides those from Asus and Samsung also from Dell). Then one has a foldable notebook that is operated with a keyboard and touchpad, not wiping around on the display.
Strictly speaking, the RT-Tablets are thus rather tablet notebook hybrid - a concept at the time and ultimately the case of previous unsuccessful attempts Microsoft ran out with the so-called "Tablet PC". Asus wants to ship the keyboard as standard, Dell and Samsung have not yet been determined.
The initially surprising. Tablet PCs with Anstecktastatur firmly stuck for eleven years in a tiny niche. Apple, however, has in two and a half years, nearly 100 million iPads sold, without the old folding concept. So why Asus, Dell and Samsung still can not do without it?
On the reasons one would immediately if you try their tablets. The interface of Windows RT is the same as for the other Windows 8 versions. This means that the well-known, developed for the Windows desktop mouse control is also on board. And not just for emergencies.
For example, you end up in the Desktop Explorer, if you want to copy files from a USB stick. Also Microsoft's RT adapted and pre-installed on the tablet office applications only run on the desktop. Most of the buttons are so small as ever, at least in the current "preview version".
The manufacturers are well advised to offer a keyboard along with touchpad. Whether you see it as a welcome addition or as a necessary evil, depends on what one wants to do with his RT-Tablet.
To dispense with it is, in any case difficult because the finger is disabled desktop with Explorer and the Office programs always one step away. This is an important difference between Windows and RT on one iOS and Android on the other side.
Also the RT-priced tablets are the iPad and Android tablets probably not directly compete. Asus and Samsung commit themselves yet, but representatives of both manufacturers suggest 600 euros upwards. The potential as a laptop replacement, of course, serves as an argument for the additional cost compared to the competition.
The balancing act involves risk: the user might expect that he can continue to use their existing Windows applications such as Photoshop, Paint.net, iTunes or Outlook on the Tablets. But that is not the case. To RT-Tablets can only install apps from Microsoft's Metro-Store, so touch programs.
Who wants to have Photoshop on your tablet, you need a model with Windows x86 CPU. Which are also present in large numbers at the IFA - most are free, but again significantly more than the RT-Tablets.
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