{"id":3002,"date":"2014-09-13T14:12:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T21:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/?p=3002"},"modified":"2014-09-13T14:12:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T21:12:15","slug":"next-years-windows-tablets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/next-years-windows-tablets\/","title":{"rendered":"Next-Year&#8217;s Windows Tablets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sept 13, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During the last 12 months I&#8217;ve recommended two Intel processors for Windows machines, each for a different class of device:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Haswell<\/strong> for laptops (any size) and mid-weight (1.7 to 2 lb) tablet\/hybrids (like Surface 3).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bay Trail Atom<\/strong> for light-weight (1.3 lbs or less) tablets like the ASUS T100 or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/lenovo-thinkpad-10-my-next-pen-based-windows-tablet\/\">Lenovo Thinkpad 10<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Haswell chip is very powerful&#8211;it has full computing capability but at the cost of a higher weight machine. The Bay Trail Atom is &#8220;good enough&#8221; for most light processing and excellent for tablet use&#8211;a good trade off for very light weight and long battery life.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it was inevitable that Intel would march ahead with new processors, and so Intel is releasing a new processor that may merge these 2 functions. It&#8217;s called the Core M. Read about it here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/intel-with-core-m-theres-finally-a-reason-to-upgrade-your-laptop\/\">http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/intel-with-core-m-theres-finally-a-reason-to-upgrade-your-laptop\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note that even though some laptop makers have already announced machines with the Core-M, I&#8217;d say it&#8217;ll be 6 months or more before we see enough variety of models to make shopping easy.<\/p>\n<p>I do hope they release some very light weight (1.2 lb) Windows tablets with it because as I switch between my very speedy Haswell laptop and my Bay Trail tablet, I am getting irritated with the lag in simple things like loading web pages on the Bay Trail&#8211;enough so that I am starting to reach for the laptop just to browse the web&#8211;which is sad.<\/p>\n<p>Keep an eye on Core-M machines for a Spring purchase.<\/p>\n<p>Michael<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept 13, 2014 During the last 12 months I&#8217;ve recommended two Intel processors for Windows machines, each for a different class of device: Haswell for laptops (any size) and mid-weight (1.7 to 2 lb) tablet\/hybrids (like Surface 3). Bay Trail &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/next-years-windows-tablets\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3002"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3023,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions\/3023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}