What happens when a Windows 7 tablet takes on the iPad head to head in a series of every day usage battles? This video happens. Place your bets!
The Hanvon Windows 7 slate shown here is presumably one of the many Windows 7 tablets Microsoft expects by year’s end. The surprise here isn’t that the Hanvon’s a clear winner – it’s not – but more that it’s able to at least keep up with and often beat out the iPad while also including a camera, USB, SD card slot and a trackpad. With all that comes an unpleasant blockiness though, and I’m guessing the battery life on this thing doesn’t compare.
Still, it’s good to see iPad competitors starting to show a little moxy. It’ll be interesting to see which, if any, can successfully storm the castle. [All Things D]
Andrew Craick
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 6:17 AMThe pinch to zoom on the Microsoft one looks terrible. It appears to just be the standard IE browser based zoom which sucks.
Dazza
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 2:05 PMAndrew they are both about the same for finger control, pinch etc, I have both.
[doa]
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 9:42 AMAll the formatting and presentation of pages is perfect on the iPad as soon as any page has finished loading.
In contrast the Windows solution seems to have the same low resolution window “view” that any old PC has, causing lots of sideways scrolling.
Gez
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 11:28 AMmmm.. I already have an iPad, which is smaller…. its called an iPhone. Waste of money!
Troy MacDonald
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 12:00 PMI agree with andrew, the zooming on the windows tablet looks crap, and a lot of the webpages dont look as good. The USB ports and SD card are a huge advantage, and if it supports most/all of windows’ programs, then thats a huge plus. The screen looks a bit too widescreen though i reckon.
Observer
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 1:22 PM“supports most/all of windows’ programs”?
Troy, how are you going to use these Windows apps without a keyboard and mouse? You’ll be stuck sitting at a desk to use this thing, making it an overpriced monitor/unpowered PC combo.
Windows slate is yet another failure in the making from Microsoft, and it will fail for the same reasons all the other Windows tablets have over the last 10 years – too few apps designed for the interface.
Justin
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 1:31 PMOne word….Flash!
Dazza
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 1:51 PMI have a Mac Bias IPhone, Mac Pro etc + PC’s, I have both IPad and Hanvon. For entertainment the IPad wins hands down, for work the Hanvon is a huge winner, full Win 7, Office 10, M/S project, Adobe, Photoshop, etc all PC apps work great, needs an SSD to improve battery life, easy to transfer files via USB, connect external screen/display, handwriting is great, 256GB drive v 64 GB. Fun use the IPad, work use the Hanvon
Jeo
Monday, October 11, 2010 at 10:33 PMWhat’s with the:
“sure, the windows tablet pc has far more features and does tasks equally as well, but its not as pretty therefore it’s not as good and not worth getting”
didn’t we use to buy computers based on merit?