Want The Works? Try Windows 7 For Tablets

By Paul Barber


Compared with other better established or even more favored mobile operating systems, Windows 7 for tablets offers a different sort of user experience. It offers the power and capacities of Windows 7, absolutely within easy reach. What's this got to supply and how is it different to other operating systems? Let's examine it.



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 PCs in mind. The OS needs a different processor design (one that you would routinely find in a desktop, laptop PC or netbook) so you can't simply take a tablet made for Android and install Windows 7 in it. IOS and Android, the 2 most well liked mobile operating systems for tablet PCs and smartphones are made specially for ARM processors, which are basically SoCs (system-on-a-chip) with GPU, RAM, and other components built in. Windows 7, on the other hand, supports Intel and AMD chips.



Apart from the processor difference, Windows 7 for tablets also has got a very different set of minimum hardware requirements: 1 GHz processor, 1 GB RAM, and 16 GB of free disk drive space, among others. As you will observe, Windows new tablets have larger storage drives compared to iOS and Android-powered tablets - with some featuring the size of 320 GB HDDs. Other Windows new tablets are equipped with solid state drives (SSDs) and while tech specs vary from model to model, the hardware is usually close 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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