Windows 8 Tablet (full desktop) recommendations

Joe Woodbury

Lenovo has one that I really liked. It's a laptop hybrid, so it's a bit awkward as a tablet, but otherwise it's probably what I'd buy if I liked laptops.

peterchen

Don't ask me, I'm a desktop guy, shape and weight of my phone is suitable for close combat. :rolleyes: (image similar[^])

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peterchen

Probably a good choice if - as recommended - we are looking into a hybrid anyway.

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Marc A Brown

But are they as sexy as the Surface? :-D

Nish Nishant

Probably not :-)

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Marc A Brown

Well there ya go.

pmt32577

If you are prepared to consider bigger, so barely a tablet, but powerful and large enough that touch is usable with desktop apps then look at the Dell XPS18.

Simon ORiordan from UK

I was a desktop guy until a week ago; built my last desktop from a dual Xeon shell, plugged into 5.1 and a 40 inch telly, with parts from the spares draw and wireless keyboard and mouse. It's a lovely multimedia and programming and world domination centre, but the used Elitebook I picked up for a song is definitely not just for puttering. It renders mp4 twice as fast as the four xeon cores, and is a serious piece of kit. Tablets? Definitely. Puttering. Mine is used for Skype where it really shines. Hybrid tablets like the ones you guys are discussing? Could be pretty handy, not just puttering.

Randy Thon

We're using the ACER W700 series Windows 8 Tablet to do all our development with. Hardware is rock-solid, touchscreen, external VGA capability, etc... and most of all it has a screen resolution of 1920x1080 (1080p) to meet your graphic needs. Hope this helps...

chadash

I use Acer w700 for all my development but I've got my eye on the new Lenovo Thinkpad Helix. 256 GB SSD, 8 GB ram, core i7 CPU, detachable screen where you can turn it to the other side as well for presentation. Looks really cool. It's expensive though.

patbob

I have A Lenovo Yoga, its the one where the keyboard can flip around back and it becomes a tablet. I like it a lot, but I don't use it in tablet mode much. You can also flip it around into a "tent" mode so it's a self-standing touchscreen tablet. While that might be useful in a trade show environment, a tablet and stand is probably cheaper. Its got an SSD, so it boots from power-off in ~10 seconds, shuts back down in about 15 seconds, neither of which probably matters in a trade show environment. However, it will absolutely need AC power to run all day (as will any other tablet with an Intel processor that runs Win8), a real tablet with an ARM that runs WinRT might not. I've also been doing a bit of C# dev on it recently a la VS 2010 express. It works for that as well as any other laptop. The yogas were a hot product back around Christmas time, so the device itself might attract some attention. Almost certainly more than a tablet or laptop. You'd have to display it in tent configuration so people noticed it though.

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James Lonero

Also, which is least costly/less expensive?

RafagaX

I recently bought a Toshiba U925t, it's Nice as a tablet and as a laptop, althought I recommend you to buy a Mouse with it because the touchpad stinks; if you look to use an stylus see the Vaio Dúo 11, it's wacom compatible; and in general look for at least 256Gb hard disks.

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