Samsung Series 7 Slate, a tablet and a little more

 

With the iPad tablet and Android we are accustomed to the concept of a tablet that is not original. The idea of ​​Steve Jobs has been to streamline an existing product by making it user friendly, but schermoni hawkers are not his own invention: real computer running Windows, benefited from an extreme mobility, but cornered by poor processing power and autonomy laughable. Now a lot of Samsung to combine the best of these two conceptions. Inside the 7 Series Slate, in fact, beats an Intel Core i5 is a PC in every respect. The materials are derived from the plastic, but also the design, robust and well cared for, in some ways to see the Korean Ultrabook. The feeling is to keep your hands to an object slightly heavier than a Galaxy Tab, but infinitely more valuable.




The 11.6-inch display (1366x768 pixels resolution) lights shining brightly: the 400 candles in Slate prides specifications are shown from the start of Windows. Although it is already on the market with Windows 7 Home Premmium, on board we found a beta Windows8, Slate system it will be updated soon as we have on the market. Out in 10 seconds scarce, we are already at the Start menu.




Those used to the interface of Windows Phone will feel at ease, while those who do not know anything about Live Tile Company and the first will be a little 'disoriented. Windows 8 in fact inspired by the OS designed for touch interfaces of smartphones, and relegates to the rank of a classic desktop app of the many present. We often found ourselves doing forward and backward through the Start menu and windows Beloved Classic, but after a while 'we have got used to it.




What is undeniable though is that they spin operations as splinters, always and everywhere: in addition to the Core i5, on the slate there are 4 GB of RAM and a hard drive with 128 GB solid state, plus the ability to expand memory cards via . But the fluidity elarapidità the tablet are the product of a very good job, much of what Samsung engineers of Microsoft developers, and make you forget the shots of the various Windows 7 tablet seen before. In particular app designed for Windows 8 are masterpieces of style and lightness. Ordered, intuitive, fast: The interface also affects the cut XL Metro and further improved compared to that seen on smartphones. Unfortunately, in addition to branded or sponsored Microsoft software there are still enough products in the Marketplace in order to assess the ecosystem, while the traditional applications for earlier versions of Windows work within the aforementioned Desktop environment: LibreOffice, Photoshop and many other software are fully compatible, the display is standard on Windows 7 and load times and use is still fast, even if they remain closer to the previous generation of windowing operating system.