Windows 8 for tablet hands on

Re:Windows 8 for tablet hands on by wanorris on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @06:48PM (#2993918)

The $550 Acer Iconia W500 tablet (which comes with an attachable keyboard base) got 4:06 on a Cnet video playback battery drain test.

http://reviews.cnet.com/tablets/acer-iconia-tab-w500p/4505-3...

Acer isn't exactly known for brilliant power engineering, so a better vendor could likely do better. But this also wasn't exactly a high-powered chip, either. So this is probably a plausible baseline for battery usage in Win 7.

They need to beat this by quite a bit in Win 8, or the tablets will be a tough sell.

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Re:Windows 8 for tablet hands on by Tyrannosaurs on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @06:52AM (#2995677)

Given that the iPad 2 gets 11 hours + in similar tests I don't think that's a tough sell, I think it's an impossible sell.

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