Asus probably wins the smorgasbord award at Computex for showing off the
widest range of tablets
and hybrids.
Yet another in a collection of Android
and Window 8-based designs is the Tablet
810, which runs Windows 8 on top of Intel's yet-to-be-officially
announced 32-nanometer dual-core "Clover Trail" Atom chip.
"The Netbook is back, this time in the guise of a tablet computer with
a keyboard dock," wrote CNET Asia.
That's not exactly a compliment as Netbooks of yore (circa 2009) were
invariably slow. In short, they attempted the impossible: running resource-intensive
Windows 7 on
top of underpowered Atom chips.
"Although the Metro interface on the Tablet 810 ran smoothly and there
was no lag even with multiple apps open, it's hard to tell if the new Clover
Trail Atom processor within the device can sustain this once you start using
more intensive applications," wrote CNET's Vincent Chang.
That said, Windows 8 undoubtedly is snappier on an updated Atom processor
than Windows 7 or Windows XP ever was.
The 810 also sports an "Super IPS+" display, which offers good
viewing angles, dual cameras -- a 2MP front-facing camera and a 8MP version at
the rear -- and 2MB of memory.
Asus has not announced pricing and availability.
And Lenovo was showing a prototype ThinkPad Windows 8 tablet that uses the
same Intel Atom Clover Trail chip.
It has a 10.1-inch 1,366x768 display (whose "colors were bright and
vibrant, the viewing angles excellent," said CNET Asia), a rear 8MP camera
and a flash, a 9.7mm profile, a docking connector, and micro-HDMI port, among
other features.
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