The tablet comes in a giant machine for its class and suspiciously heavy packaging. But the content is absolutely convincing. First tablet in milled aluminum unibody. With 950g relatively heavy, but also very valuable. There are also a docking station along with Bluetooth keyboard, a more or less beautiful but very solid-looking bag, a microfiber cloth, a micro HDMI to VGA adapter, recovery and driver DVDs as well as the usual Dokufaltblättchen.
First impression:
The tablet itself is like saying difficult but with 11.6 inches also very large. When you first turn fall bright light cone on the bottom of the screen. In normal use, but these are no longer perceive and therefore not disturbing. Furthermore, the fan in the upper tablet edge is unusual at first, but they do their job very discreet and therefore also quickly forgotten. Windows will boot in a few seconds and feels very very liquid up to occasional slowdowns on. The FullHD display is neat, though compared to the example of the Galaxy Note 10.1 Display comparatively pale. But there has significantly higher resolution. The sound of the Tablet is despite rather Dolby
weak. In addition, the speakers are recessed facing down in the housing edge. A support on your lap or lying in bed on the upper body dampens the sound due to design very strong. Due to the weight, but you tend to fundamentally quickly the tablet store or support anywhere.
Windows 8:
Windows 8 itself works with the Metro interface very well on a tablet. Compared to Android you have to get used in many places, some are actions in Windows a bit cumbersome. Overall, however, the surface is very well thought out. A major drawback is the very weak at the moment app selection in the Windows Store, I have found very few good alternatives for my collected in recent years AndroidApps. But Windows is still new in this regard, also in Android, it took a relatively long time until the market had to offer enough quality software.
The advantage of Windows 8 Tablets: In case of emergency simply fall back to the desktop. To my own surprise, when it becomes this serve quite well on the touchscreen. Depending on the "sausage fingers factor" of the owner of this impression may of course vary. A pin (such as the Note 10.1) would be ideal here, the W700
He is, however, not available.
Ports and facilities:
When it comes to storage, the tablet only has the built-in SSD. In my case, 64GB of which when delivered about 30 GB are available for free. There is no card slots. On the other hand, there is a full USB 3.0 port on the device. In conjunction with a mini USB flash drive of just half a centimeter from the housing projects and be a viable alternative to simply exchangeable SD card.
Moreover, the connectivity, a micro HDMI and a headphone jack are available. Wireless links can be via WiFi or Bluetooth. But is sorely lacking, unfortunately, a GPS receiver. Position determination is thus only the IP address. This may well lead especially in corporate networks to undesirable results.
Also missing: A SIM slot for UMTS and / or telephony. Otherwise, a camera completes the overall package. This is enough for snapshots with sufficient light ... compared to the Galaxy Note 2 or Note 10.1, however, it is just plain bad. Here, then, decide the needs of the user.
Battery life:
The battery life was with my first two loads, install a lot of trial and error, software and the inevitable Windows updates in just over 6 hours. Given a full Windows 8 and an i3 processor is a fairly decent values.
Conclusion:
The Tablet convinces with a great display and good performance. Connectivity, expandability and things like the lack of GPS or the bad camera less convincing. Here, anyone interested should think twice before buying just what he emphasizes. When it comes to the situation in Windows apps is still absolutely bad at the moment. The decisive advantage of the tablet is simply that here a full-fledged Windows runs ... printer, DVB-T, USB flash drives, USB burner ... just any commodity hardware can be connected and used. In addition, one has if necessary on a full Windows PC. As a pure "App Maker" one, however, is currently gathered, nor significantly better in the other OS competitor.
