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FINALLY, a good tablet
MSI has finally made a good tablet. No Intel, No Android. Good Graphics, Good Battery Life.
The thing I like about this is they chose the right parts. They are using a Temash, paired with an SSD, and a good panel screen. Its design is a lot more like current phones, so it might not be appealing to those who want some of the elements that would need a thicker tablet like direct USB ports. It looks to use mini-usb ports that you would need to cross connect other devices to.
They also don't pair it with Android. Personally, I don't see android tablets as anything more than a toy. The OS is a bit less feature rich than an iOS device which is not my thing. The real bad thing about the OS for me is how much they advertise minor improvements. From a touch interface standpoint, the Windows 8 interface is without a doubt the best for touch.
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Seems quite nice.
Make the price £200 / $319 and the school I work for would snap these up....
But they wont do that they will price them way too high at around £400+ and we and everyone else will stick with £130 samsung galaxy tabs lol
The only potential drawback that I see is that it "only" comes with 2 GB of system memory. But MSI likely did that more to reduce power consumption (and hence increase battery life) than to save on production cost, so it's really just a trade-off. I certainly hope it doesn't come loaded with a bunch of stupid bloatware so that you're using 1.5 GB as soon as you boot the system, though.
As for the price tag, a 128 GB SSD doesn't come cheap, AMD's Temash chips are much more expensive than the ARM chips that go into most tablets, and MSI also has to pay for a Windows license, so you should expect higher pricing than most ARM tablets. I'd expect pricing to be in the ballpark of $600 for the 128 GB version, or $500 for the 64 GB version. But that's still a lot cheaper than, say, a Microsoft Surface Pro 2, partially because a 3.9 W chip doesn't require the outlandish engineering that a 15 W chip in a tablet does.