Intel: Windows 8 Devices With Touch Will Drop to $200

[exfileme]

Did Intel CEO Paul Otellini just confirm rumors of smaller Windows 8 tablets?

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[bak0n]

Grumpy cat says :"No."

 

[g00fysmiley]

full x86/x64 computing with low power draw, as long as it has enough storage space on it to allow for installing programs unlike current windows 8 tablets then it would make for some nice devices

 

[aracheb]

really? count me in

 

[womble]

Well I hope stunning' is better than the previous 'good enough' performance, Netbooks pretty much sucked all round.

 

[chesteracorgi]

If they can produce these devices they will be serious competition for both Android and Ipads. But there has been plenty of vaporware before.

 

[womble]

As an aside, if the performance is ok a cheap x86 Linux tablet would be really nice

 

[jaber2]

Finally a reason for competition to lower their prices for the masses

 

[slomo4sho]

Intel is desperately trying to enter the smartphone and tablet market. It never smart to be the last one to enter the market.

 

[Non-Euclidean]

Nice, I could dig a $200 tablet with power that I could run a non MS OS on.

 

[marshall2005]

will never happen...the price will be at least 50-60$ more than android counterparts (win8 costs...android is free)

 

[V8VENOM]

It will not help, there are only so many ways you can dress up a turd of an OS. Making it the same price as the competition but with a horrible UI isn't going to improve sales. Besides, Windows 8 consumes 32GB on mobile devices soooooo....

 

[Guest]

way to go INTEL .. only people who wont like it will be amd/NVidia/androids/ fans or win8 haters PMSL love it or hate its a win win windows 8 love fest finaly good news ..

 

[SGTgimpy]

Android maybe free to use, but it is not without its cost. With Android you have to develop it and harden it for your specific device's hardware. That cost money to pay a team of developers to do this. Most people forget that Android is a light weight Utility Linux OS and just doesn't work out of the box like Windows x86 does and even Windows RT.

 

[Guest]

only people who wont like it will be win8 h8ters, love it or hate its a win win windows 8 love fest finaly good news .. android is sh!t lets face it was only made for cam's in first place pure hack fest O/S fact ...

 

[Shin-san]

"Nice, I could dig a $200 tablet with power that I could run a non MS OS on." There's good Android tablets for that price

 

[Mike Friesen]

0.8 Inches??? ummm.... Here's hoping you meant centimeters, because that's thicker than my bro's i5 timelinex...

 

[InvalidError]

Intel is desperately trying to enter the smartphone and tablet market. It never smart to be the last one to enter the market.

If the article is about tablets running standard Win8 rather than RT then you would be comparing phones/tablets running Android on ARM to a low-end x86-64/Win8 PC in tablet form factor. One of these may be able to run fully-fledged standard desktop applications while the others do not.

That entry may be "late" to the tablet game but gives you access to more than a decade worth of standard desktop applications.

 

[axarm]

Every Baytrail shipped will support both windows and android. I hope many of these tablets and notebooks will dual boot.

 

[vaughn2k]

How 'stunning' is 'Stunning' by the way... The last time a had an Intel atom tablet PC with windows8, cannot even compete with my 10in dual core AllWinnerTech ARM processor when it comes to graphics, speed battery and weight! Imagine this Atom tablet has a small exhaust and small fan incorporated...

 

[GreaseMonkey_62]

I would simply be impressed if Atom was powerful enough to even be worth considering on any tablets, much less a $200 tablet.

 

[InvalidError]

I would simply be impressed if Atom was powerful enough to even be worth considering on any tablets, much less a $200 tablet.

Regardless of whether it is or not, an x86-based tablet means people who rely on x86-based PCs for their point-of-sale and similar application with practically no processing power requirement can simply dump their stuff on one of those instead of having to develop Andoid/IOS-specific versions.

That alone is already a rather quite significant potential market.