Windows 7 has been criticized by just about every gadget fan out there that it can not and should not be put on a tablet device. But now a new video comparing the iPad to a Windows 7 run tablet (not sure which one it is), allows you to be the judge.
I don’t know about you, but my opinion has changed about Windows 7 and tablets. In the video the Win7 tablet stuck with or even beat the iPad in most speed tests. Plus it had usb ports, a camera, and a mouse trackpad. The only trade-off I can see is lack of games (although you can play endless flash games on Windows) and a bit more thickness on the Windows tablet. What do you think?
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Two points.
Windows 7 is bloated with respect to tablets. Windows 7 Starter Edition has approx. 1 GB memory footprint requiring at least 2 GB RAM. It requires 5GB on disk taking up valuable flash memory. I think I am being conservative in both of my estimates.
Windows 7 is optimized for mouse operations. All applications written uptil now require a mouse.
A simple example,
Free YouTube Download by DvdVideoSoft uses a mouse paradigm.
A cousin of the above software, Freemake Video Downloader, while still being a Windows 7 application, shows what a good touch application could be (I am taking an imagining leap here).
Yes I can use Free YouTube Downloader on a Windows 7 tablet, yes it does the job, but I would rather use Freemake Video Downloader on my tablet.
As a side note, Freemake Video Downloader shows what a Windows Presentation Foundation can do. This the reason Microsoft has chosen Silverlight for Windows Phone 7.
Maybe Windows Presentation Foundation was too much ahead of its time. I think it is just what is needed for a Microsoft tablet. Another application that uses Windows Presentation Foundation that comes to mind is Seesmic Look.
As an analogy, there was Tex, a typesetting application by Donald Knuth, the computing legend, for minicomputers and then there was PageMaker for Windows.