2013
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Acer Iconia 510 in its laptop configuration.
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The iPad-killing Windows 8 tablet-laptop has arrived. Problem is, most aren’t ready to dispatch the iPad — or the MacBook Air for that matter — yet.
So far, reviewers of shape-shifting Windows 8 tablets have not been kind. Otherwise known as “detachables,” the devices can take the form of a standalone tablet or attach to a keyboard base to become a close facsimile of a full-fledged laptop.
And one of the key selling points — if not the key selling point — is that you can run all your favorite Windows applications. In other words, this isn’t application-deprived Windows RT.
The fly in the ointment is Intel’s underwhelming Atom Z2760 processor, which presents itself as a kind of paradox: it promises to run any legacy Windows application, but it doesn’t really deliver.
CNET’s review of the HP Envy x2, titled Half-tablet, half-laptop, all Atom, summarized the x2 this way: “a slower Atom processor means in performance it’s far behind most ultrabooks, even though it’s priced like one.”
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Windows 8 iPad killers: Round 1
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http://www.tabletpcblog.com/2013/02/windows-8-ipad-killers-round-1/