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addabox
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2012-02-21, 12:29

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Originally Posted by chucker View Post
This is only true on ARM. On x86, tablets can run other Windows apps just fine.
Right, but at the moment x86 tablets mean (as far as I know, I realize Intel is promising great things) bigger, hotter and much worse battery life.

That also leaves open the question of how non-Metro apps behave in a touch environment. We've seen what Microsoft's idea of an Intel tablet running Windows has been, and it wasn't pretty. Will an Intel tablet running Windows 8 be that plus Metro? Because that sounds kind of awful.

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