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sclitheroe · 03-18-2013, 10:31 AM

I'm still waiting for my 7-8" $329 Windows RT Metro-only tablet. I don't want a desktop on my tablet. I want pure-Metro without the legacy trappings of the Win32 Desktop GUI that is affordable.

Maybe I'm waiting for the Windows Phone OS to grow up, rather than Win 8 RT to grow down, but it seems to me that this is the crux of the problem in the RT tablet space - it's neither beast nor fowl. The logical progression in my mind is Phone -> RT mid-sized tablet -> Surface Pro, and the Surface Pro, by virtue of it's better processor and backwards compatibility with Win64/Win32 applications should be the dividing line on including the desktop interface.

03-18-2013, 10:31 AM	#119
sclitheroe #1 Goaltender Join Date: Sep 2005 Exp:	I'm still waiting for my 7-8" $329 Windows RT Metro-only tablet. I don't want a desktop on my tablet. I want pure-Metro without the legacy trappings of the Win32 Desktop GUI that is affordable. Maybe I'm waiting for the Windows Phone OS to grow up, rather than Win 8 RT to grow down, but it seems to me that this is the crux of the problem in the RT tablet space - it's neither beast nor fowl. The logical progression in my mind is Phone -> RT mid-sized tablet -> Surface Pro, and the Surface Pro, by virtue of it's better processor and backwards compatibility with Win64/Win32 applications should be the dividing line on including the desktop interface. __________________ -Scott