Hexxen
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I know this is hard to implement but i think would be nice. I played many videogames and i love their awesome interface. I'm building a fullscreen interface for my robot using the sdk and i'll have the video from the cam on the background and over that i'll put a layer of buttons. So i have no problems but how about the non programmers? What if they could make a very nice interface by simply right click, add this put it there and save everything?
@DJ Sures I just might have to get one of those Acer ICONIA W500 tablet PCs after Christmas!
And did you say you put Windows 8 on yours? Is that the Windows 8 beta?
@JT Yah, windows 8 beta developers release. Works great! I turned off the stupid Windows 8 new start menu though. There is a registry change you can do and it makes it back to normal windows again.
DJ, I like your comments on the iPad etc... I was in Best Buy looking at one awhile ago and the salesguy wanted to know if I had any questions, I told him no and that this was just a big iPod Touch! He just looked at me and grinned! After several other times to stop and play I still think the same thing! All the tablets lack PC functionality... what you said! Looking forward to Windows 8 tablets... and checking out that Acer W500 in the meantime! Thanks for the insight!
Those Acers are pretty neat. But I would really like to see the ARM version of Windows 8 tablets, because they can be much smaller form factors and longer battery lifes. Although I know that unfortunately ARM version of windows 8 will not be compatible with any desktop software for x86/64 processors... Alternately Intel or AMD need to step up their ultra low power consumption processor game to make a bona fide windows 8 PC tablet that can fit inside of iPad/Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 type hardware.
I get 7-8 hours of constant use. Last week at a conference I ran the acer connected to my robot via Bluetooth and screen on controlling my robot for 7 hours.
If I just use it on and off, it lasts all day and evening
Well my laptop died so I can't wait for a Windows 8 tablet this fall... And I still need PC capability for Excel and for EZ-B so an iPad or Android tablet is out. Can't find an Acer locally to try it out first... so - does anyone have one and use Excel on it? DJ you had a lot of experience with it, your input would be great! Anyone else's comments welcome also. Windows 7 tablets seem to be a big secret at my local stores!
Ok silly question
Will we be seeing a Windows RT version of the software by chance?
We had a meeting about a Windows RT version, but it doesn't make sense yet. The Windows 8 RT Tablet is the same price as a Windows 8 64 Bit Tablet...
The biggest problem we find with supporting the different tablets like RT, OS/X and Android are the interface limitations, processor, RAM and screen real estate.
We'll also wait a bit to see how the RT tablet does before we jump in. It can be done, but we have very limited resources. The ARC software is over 100,000 lines of code - it would not be an easy job to port to any other OS'