Can anyone recommend a tablet that will run W8 well?

I was thinking a duo/convertible type, where it has a keyboard but the screen flips around for just tablet use,
but I guess a regular slate would work fine as well..

Thanks

No one will know yet becos it's still in pre-beta form. I'd say hold up on buying one at the monent.

@3dpiper I am running win8 dp on my acer iconia w500. it has a keybord if you need. win8 runs very fast and smooth. no problems. if you dont need keyboard maybe you can get the msi windpad 110w. these are all expensive relatively now but once arm tablets hit the show prices will fall.

Well a journal said "Sinofsky and co offered BUILD attendees high end swag in the form of a Samsung built tablet running a developer preview of windows 8. The 11.6 inch device features SDK, a recovery environment, a dock to connect with a keyboard or dual monitor, a 64 gb ssd (solid state) hard drive, 4 gb ram and was powered by an intel chipset."
Now human nature says they had this designed to run 8 to it's best performance. I would doubt that a tablet that falls short of the specs would run very well. If it's close Id try it. But a tab like mine which is a cheep POS will never run it.

@kira which is your tab? You have to try it to believe it. Win8 runs fast on my anemic processor. Sure it will fly on the samsung series 7 slate but you dont need that unless you plan to run photoshop on your tablet.

(braces herself for laughter and finger pointing) Its a china tab from some company called kinstone model s5pv210 samsung processor running droid gingerbread 2.3.1 total mem 378.89 mb and a dinky 4gb sd card
oh and resistive touch
I would try but Im not sure how to get my droid back up and running as it was if something goes wrong. Its only a 7 inch square display anyway. Im just starting to learn about android and sdk and roms and things like that. Plus if I brick it I'm down a machine... even if its just a tab.

Probably better not to try. I am a PC person. Not sure how you are going to install it on an android device even if your specs are good. You would probably need at least 1gb ram to run things smoothly I would guess.

the Nvidia Tegra tablets seem to be opimized for W8 so i'd keep an eye out for them

Originally Posted by newbie

Probably better not to try. I am a PC person. Not sure how you are going to install it on an android device even if your specs are good. You would probably need at least 1gb ram to run things smoothly I would guess.

I got 32bit version to try out...


slapped it onto one of my pc's here (2.4 dual-core intel, with 2GB mem)..and it only took up 9GB installed...

so add some on like anti-virus/etc. and it appears to be about same footprint as Win7 on my ViewPad10 tablet...



Win8 on my ViewPad10 tablet....

installed WindowsDeveloperPreview-32bit-english

install went smooth, connected to WiFi fine...install did overwrite my dual boot
setup with Honeycomb...so just re-installed Honeycomb which adds the
proper dual-boot..can now boot into Honeycomb or Win8 on the tablet....

also:
-Change displ key for Metro UI: hklm\system\currentcontrolset\control\class\(4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0000\Display1_Downscalingsupported to 1
-reboot
-set display to 1024x768

FOOTPRINT is 9.10GB on this tablet...it is partitioned as follows

2GB ext3 for android / 29GB for windows...

I purchased a used RM Slate 100 for less than 300 on ebay. I did a clean install of the Dev preview and then upgraded to the Consumer Prev. Both have run great.

Operating System:	Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium
Processor:	Intel Pineview-M N450 + ICH8M, 1.66 GHz
Connections:	Bluetooth 2.1, EDR, integrated 802.11b/g/n WiFi 2.4GHz
Processor Speeds:	1.6GHz, 667MHz, 512K (200MHz)
Graphics:	Discrete Broadcom Crystal 1080p HD Video Accelerator
Memory:	2Gb 800MHz DDR2
Mass Storage Memory:	SSD 32GB
Battery Type:	Embedded Lithium-ion Polymer 2-cell (35.52Whr, 7.4V, 4800m Ah, 2S1P)
Battery Life:	Over 3 hrs
Camera:	1.3M pixel (fix focus) webcam
Screen:	TFT LCD 11.6" HD GLARE with increased view angle support (1366 X 768)
Wireless Network Adapter:	Integrated 802.11 b/g/n WiFi 2.4GHz
Touch Panel:	Capacitive multi-touch panel (real two points), display orientation (3-axis sensing)
Audio:	2x Built-in Speakers (1.5W), 1x Microphone
Interface:	26-pin dock connector, DC-in jack, Mini-HDMI, 2 X USB 2.0, OMTP jack, SD card slot
Total Size:	295mm x 195mm x 14mm
Total Weight:	995g
Casing:	Magnesium Alloy with rubberised grip finish