Tablet ASUS VivoTab Note 8: eight inches “adult” Windows – TUT.BY

August 4, 2014 at 11:32
 
Alexander Arsenov, IT.TUT.BY

We are accustomed to Android tablets and iOS, netbooks for Windows. But why and how to live with an eight-inch tablet with a familiar desktop OSes? IT.TUT.BY researched affordable Windows-tablet ASUS and shares his impressions.

In fact, the plates on the” Eight “- not news. Until last year, the plates were on the “seven” and even XP, understood (and it looks like a failed) experiment with Windows RT. In early 2013 appeared on the market Microsoft Surface Pro, all good, except for the price. By mid-year, there were more interesting things like the HP ENVY x2.

But until recently, the price of “vindoplanshety” no joy. Whether it ASUS VivoTab Note 8! Or not?

It costs as much as the Mighty Android tablet or an old iPad, – the date of publication of some 380 dollars (after thousands of great progress). However, unlike his predecessors, he-eight and not ten or odinnadtsatidyuymovy. At a price closer to netbooks than ultrabooks.

But netbook device from a strange turn: Complete and proprietary in nature keyboard, Non complete keyboard (even without the optional battery) will be much less comfortable. But to connect a keyboard and mouse via Bluetooth or USB (need to re-buy an adapter from micro to normal USB) can be. But in the tablet stylus left, but it only works in a drawing tool for typing and not everywhere instead of a mouse (as in the line of Samsung Galaxy Note).

look at VivoTab Note 8 as a tablet. He did not look at the $ 300-400 – heavy, stout and tatty compared to Android-tablets. But if we remember that it is a complete desktop computer that can fit in a jacket pocket, questions the relation “appearance – the price” disappear.

The device decent “hardware” for this kid: 4-core Intel Atom Z3740 , decent Intel integrated graphics and 2GB of “RAM”. This allows you to not only watch movies or FullHD-edit doctorate in Word, but also to play games. The tablet will run on minimum settings and STALKER, and Oblivion, and many more games that you like. Go and every Photoshop and Autocad.

Pleases battery gadget. Although precise figures are difficult to provide due to the very different usage scenarios, expect 4-5 hours of continuous surfing included with Skype, Viber and their alternatives, 5-6 hours of video and over 9 hours of “reading.” When locked (not off) state tablet significantly discharged, so the evening he will live out infrequently.

Without keyboard and mouse you can play unless in” Heroes “or Fallout, and to paint – in Paint. Yes, you can read the news on the Internet or typing short texts in Word using the onscreen keyboard. But all this is done in order better to Android and iOS. While Windows 8 (with update 8.1 and Update 1) adapted to the little plates of programs, and they are not encouraging good functionality. More than games for touchscreen – two orders of magnitude less than for the same Windows Phone, not to mention the Android and iOS.

In addition to the tablet for a few hundred dollars here is very weak screen. 1280×800 resolution and IPS-matrix – not bad, but low maximum brightness and the lack of anti-reflective substrate – yuck. Besides screen instantly “zalyapyvaetsya” very hard rubbed glass is easily scratched. It looks strange for ASUS, which manufactured Android-tablet with great screens.

Also disappointing Sound headphones (they are not included) all bearable, but not amazing, but not loud speaker and has a 60% volume begins to “sizzle” and “ringing”. Camera (5 megapixel with autofocus and no flash, plus a front facing 1.2 megapixel) is suitable for Skype, but not for the scenery or the self.

critically low Memory: 32 GB of available half “eat” operating the system. Compatible memory cards up to 64GB, cable (recall is not supplied) can be connected and USB flash drive or external hard drive – all this makes, but does not make the gadget “repository of all movies”.

turns out that Asus VivoTab Note 8 – or uncomfortable netbook (small screen, keyboard Pick up your own), or expensive for this quality tablet (size, design, screen, sound, camera, games). And not even “budget transformer” – it’s better to dig some desyatidyuymovik keyboard included. And although the author of the review in awe of ideas, “G”, it is not able to make the “little netbook without a keyboard” in “iPad with Windows-based applications”.

Who needs such a strange hybrid? There is a category of people are very attached to “windsurfing” because of work or school. The engineer or scientist is simply no relevant programs on Android and iOS – all work on the computer. They ASUS VivoTab Note 8 will be a real computer in your pocket, with perfectly working “Wind” and a decent autonomy. If the work is related to the exits, this tablet has no competitors.

Who wants this tablet: professionals working with Windows-based applications, especially with frequent departures. Truly a “pocket” one alternative: more ugly and less comfortable, but cheap Toshiba Encore, the rest is much weaker or more.

To ignore: to all who need quality and inexpensive tablet or netbook. ASUS VivoTab Note 8 – not that and not another. He loses devastating conventional tablets and netbooks for the same price.