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Monday, January 16, 2012, 04:57 pm
Briefly: High priced 'Wintel' tablets, Dutch iTunes Match
Intel and Microsoft need to strike a deal or Windows 8 tablets might be priced out of reach for most consumers and Apple officially launches iTunes Match in the Netherlands.'Wintel' tablets
It was reported on Monday that Intel and Microsoft's unwillingness to strike a deal over hardware and software price quotes could drive up consumer cost of Intel-powered tablets running Windows 8, according to DigiTimes.
Notebook vendor sources estimate that so-called "Wintel" tablets could cost anywhere from $599 to $899, and both companies are reticent to cut component and software costs because doing so could affect the overall PC market and seriously hurt gross profit margins.
The situation becomes more confounding for Intel as its next generation Clover Trail-W platform, which features a low-power Atom processor, is battling ARM platforms from Nvidia, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments for a place in upcoming mobile devices.
Apple, the de facto leader in the tablet computing market, is also said to be launching the iPad 3 in March. Rumored to be based on a proprietary quad-core processor, Apple's newest tablet will likely disrupt the Wintel tablet market as it builds upon the company's strong-selling iOS line of mobile products.
iTunes Match
Updated terms and conditions for Apple's iTunes Match and a change to an online support page on Monday point to an official rollout of the service in the Netherlands, though links to the cloud-based music matching service have yet to appear on the company's Dutch website.
According to the "iTunes in the Cloud and iTunes Match Availability" Apple support page, the Netherlands is now listed as one of the countries to offer the music matching service alongside iTunes in the Cloud access to music videos, apps and books.
The €24.99 per year Dutch iTunes Match is identical to its American counterpart, offering all-device access to music in a user's iTunes library up to 25,000 tracks. Users can also upload any song that is not currently on the iTunes server, creating a cloud library for hard to find tracks.
As of this writing an official landing page has yet to appear on either the Apple website or the Netherlands iTunes Store, however a direct purchase link to iTunes Match is now active for users in that country.
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Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton 
If full Windows laptops with real keyboards, processors, and larger hard drive based storage and optical drives can sell for less than these Win8 tablets, why would anyone choose the tablet over the Win8 laptop?
If full Windows laptops with real keyboards, processors, and larger hard drive based storage and optical drives can sell for less than these Win8 tablets, why would anyone choose the tablet over the Win8 laptop?
"Because I want a tablet, but Apple are corporate whores that are overpriced and they lock stuff down so I can't do anything I want on it. I'm sticking it to The Man by buying a Windows 8 tablet!"
Oh gosh, it's so wonderful. Windows 8 on tablets is GOING to suck because of the hardware manufacturers. Microsoft said that Windows 8 might be their last version if it sucks. Without Windows, all the hardware manufacturers either go out of business or fall to single digit percentages of marketshare as Apple rises.
It's like something out of a late-90s Apple follower dream, but it's actually happening.
Question is, who actually wants an Intel tablet? I plan to get a windows 8 tablet, but its going to be one with an ARM processor not Intel. So if Intel don't want to drop there price who cares, they just won't sell anything.
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Originally Posted by timgriff84
Question is, who actually wants an Intel tablet? I plan to get a windows 8 tablet, but its going to be one with an ARM processor not Intel. So if Intel don't want to drop there price who cares, they just won't sell anything.
Question is, who actually wants an Intel tablet? I plan to get a windows 8 tablet, but its going to be one with an ARM processor not Intel. So if Intel don't want to drop there price who cares, they just won't sell anything.
I think that could make Intel cave here if Win8 on ARM is good enough.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton
If full Windows laptops with real keyboards, processors, and larger hard drive based storage and optical drives can sell for less than these Win8 tablets, why would anyone choose the tablet over the Win8 laptop?
If full Windows laptops with real keyboards, processors, and larger hard drive based storage and optical drives can sell for less than these Win8 tablets, why would anyone choose the tablet over the Win8 laptop?
Windows 8 x86 tablet you mean?
My guess would be be if someone wants a convertible, not a tablet or a laptop.
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Originally Posted by timgriff84
Question is, who actually wants an Intel tablet? I plan to get a windows 8 tablet, but its going to be one with an ARM processor not Intel. So if Intel don't want to drop there price who cares, they just won't sell anything.
Question is, who actually wants an Intel tablet? I plan to get a windows 8 tablet, but its going to be one with an ARM processor not Intel. So if Intel don't want to drop there price who cares, they just won't sell anything.
The majority of consumers honestly could not care any less about what kind of hardware or software is running their tablets. How much longer must we keep rehashing the same story?
The tech minority continues to imply that they know what the joe-consumer looks out for, and time again they are proven wrong.
Did iPad consumers buy the iPad because it was ARM and not Intel? No. Did they care that iOS is OSX and not Windows? No.
They bought it because it works well, it's polished, and it's a toaster. Period.
I remember distinctly the fandroids, trolls, etc, preaching the Motorola XOOM's "superior" dual-core, NVidia hardware configuration, only to whimper-away in shame to the corner of a room when news broke that their "superior" hardware running android couldn't even best a year-old single-core 1st-gen iPad.
Let's end this hardware oneupmanship. It's irrelevant now. Give me and other consumers an appliance that is polished, easy to use, and has a great ecosystem. Apple does that very, very well. The other players?? Not.
I want iTunes Match here.
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Originally Posted by Aizmov
I want iTunes Match here.
I want iTunes Match here.
Apple doesn't like AppleInsider very much, though.
Quote:
Originally Posted by timgriff84
Question is, who actually wants an Intel tablet? I plan to get a windows 8 tablet, but its going to be one with an ARM processor not Intel. So if Intel don't want to drop there price who cares, they just won't sell anything.
Question is, who actually wants an Intel tablet? I plan to get a windows 8 tablet, but its going to be one with an ARM processor not Intel. So if Intel don't want to drop there price who cares, they just won't sell anything.
These categories are going to blur over the next couple of years.
I think the question is; if you're going to get a Windows PC, and you aren't into something like CAD or "hardcore" gaming, why wouldn't you choose a "convertible" Intel tablet?
In 2013 a lot (if not most) of the "ultrabook" style laptops are going to have touch screens and a lot (if not most) of those will allow you to take the screen off and use it as a tablet.
If you're going to purchase a laptop anyway why not choose the one where you can take the screen off and use it as a tablet?
There will be Windows 8 ARM tablets, laptops and convertibles as well. They will most likely be cheaper and have longer battery life. They will run all of the same Metro-style applications as the Intel tablets/laptops/convertibles, but they won't run the "traditional" Windows desktop and legacy applications.
Of course there will be a market for these ARM devices as well, depending on the requirements of the user.
If an ARM device is a hatchback, and a PC is a truck, then these Intel touch screen ultrabooks and dockable tablets are SUV's and sedans.
Final though... poor AMD
The word "reticent" does not mean what this article's author appears to think it means.
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If full Windows laptops with real keyboards, processors, and larger hard drive based storage and optical drives can sell for less than these Win8 tablets, why would anyone choose the tablet over the Win8 laptop?