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Originally Posted by foxpaws
More like a smaller MacAir - with bad screen quality (I heard 1080p is the max on these things, low end stock will be 720p - that ain't Retina we are talking)....
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720p is the minimum standard for win8. While the "Retina" display looks spectacular, the over-lay capacitive touch input resolution (of the ipad) is HORRIBLE.
The ipad input relies on peoples fat fingers. Go ahead, without zooming your ipad, click on one of the page numbers of one of these threads. (good effn luck w/ that) Even with a capacitive pen you will be pecking, and pecking and pecking, trying to hit that small hyperlink. --HOrrible touch input resolution.
Windows, OTOH, gives the user precision input. ....it's as if Microsoft sees their customer as someone who, on balance,
creates, rather than solely
consumes. ...Back to the spectacular "Retina" display --great for viewng photo's. ...WHAT? ...no SD slot to review a photo shoot? ...oh, but there is this barnacle that you can buy to read the tiny SD card
(Apple is so elegant)
Back to the user precision input of Windows tablets... not only does the user get field precision, but also pressure precision. That is, where an ipad reads
on or
off (touch/no-touch only), the Windows machine will sense 256 levels of pen pressure, giving a true pen-like experience. AND, it even senses the pen just above the screen --which allows a cursor to hover over a field without selecting it. (which often provide the user with more info on that hyperlink)
But the ipad has ridiculously high display resolution. So, Pop the corn, and watch a movie on your tiny screen. (and feel superior, of course)