MSI Windpad 100W / 232W With Underwhelming Performance?
The MSI Windpad 100W (or known as the 232W in Europe, which actually gets Windows 7 Home Premium and Bluetooth connectivity) is currently available for order, and it seems that the general sentiment might be that this tablet is slightly underwhelming. It’s got pretty decent specs – a 10-inch 1024 x 600 display – we see this resolution on 7-inchers and 10-inchers a bit, but it could have been higher. Curious is the capacitive touchscreen (AKA, tough to use a stylus) on a Windows 7 OS, which would benefit greatly from stylus input rather than wide and fleshy fingers… however, perhaps MSI will release a touch-friendly UI. The SSD, to pair along with the 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor and 2GB RAM which should be sufficient to have Windows 7 react quite smoothly, but some reports say that the experience is slow and laggy, meaning it could have a slower SSD inside, perhaps one that has great sequential write/read speeds, but poor random 4k performance – when SSDs first debuted, stuttering due to this was a big problem and Intel’s X25-M SSD series cured that by sacrificing sequential read/write performance for random read/write performance. I guess we would have hoped that the tablet would make a bigger bang, as the tablet market is in dire need of more Windows 7 tablets to balance out (and add some flexibility) to the current Android dominance… maybe it just isn’t yet the time.
via umpcportal
Categories: MSI, Tablet, Windows Tablet
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Techies are a tiny minority in the world but tech companies? and techies themselves fail to realize that. Polish and ease of use trumps flexibility and expandability for the vast majority of consumers.
This screams of a products that will cater to the techie niche. If you fall within that niche then I think you will be very happy. The majority of consumers don’t want a Windows based tablet. The market couldn’t make that any clearer.