Samsung’s Windows 8 Ativ convertible grossly misrepresents

Samsung’s Windows 8 Ativ convertible grossly misrepresents available storage

Samsung’s Ativ 500T Windows 8 tablet-laptop convertible has a number of strong points — including Intel’s new dual-core Clover Trail Atom SoC — but storage capacity certainly isn’t one of them. According to the Ativ Smart PC’s box, it comes with 64GB of available storage. In reality, after you factor in all of cruft, crud, and bloatware, actual available storage is less than half of that.

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Gotta love OEM's and their bloatware.

A Guy
 
if you want no bloatware, get it from the Microsoft Store. All PC's sold at the MS Store are completely clean with only Windows installed.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro
Well, it seems I might still be able to do some side hustling with tablet PCs! :p

If I had said tablet, I would just do what Microsoft would do except a little more extreme. I'd back up, reformat, and install fresh free from OEM bloat. Why do you install Norton trials when Windows already has an anti-virus?! This is like painting a bucket of paint! :doh:

Samsung ATIV Smart PC 500T (500T1C) | Samsung Tablet PCs
Now, I don't know about anyone else, but paying for a tablet PC that costs 750 dollars and is advertised as having a 64 gig HARD DRIVE, when we know it's not a hard drive but solid state storage and only HALF is available, I do call BS on this. Unlike the Surface RT tablet being claimed it only has 16 gigs available, the difference here is that the software preinstalled is of use, like Office 2013 along with the preinstalled apps. Unlike using Adobe Reader and having ALL the language packs installed for some curious reason and being almost 500 MBs, Office 2013 RT is about 625 MBs.

I don't know, I really don't have much love to give Samsung these days with their apple debacle and revelations from it, as well as their lazy attempt at their Windows Phone 8, and just overall giving me the impression that they seem to be taking the lazy man/path of least resistance/somewhat questionable things route...
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    ASUS
    CPU
    AMD FX 8320
    Motherboard
    Crosshair V Formula-Z
    Memory
    16 gig DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    ASUS R9 270
    Screen Resolution
    1440x900
    Hard Drives
    1 TB Seagate Barracuda (starting to hate Seagate)
    x2 3 TB Toshibas
    Windows 8.1 is installed on a SanDisk Ultra Plus 256 GB
    PSU
    OCZ 500 watt
    Case
    A current work in progres as I'll be building the physical case myself. It shall be fantastic.
    Cooling
    Arctic Cooler with 3 heatpipes
    Keyboard
    Logitech K750 wireless solar powered keyboard
    Mouse
    Microsoft Touch Mouse
    Browser
    Internet Explorer 11
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender, but I might go back on KIS 2014
Gotta love OEM's and their bloatware.

A Guy


Um...no.

Kat.

:thumb::cool::geek:

Got a story about that actually ... stay tuned, or tune in to the 'well, here we go' thread later.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8 Enterprise 64-bit (7 Ult, Vista & XP in V-Box)
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Acer Aspire Ethos AS8951G 'Super-Laptop'.
    CPU
    Intel Sandy-Bridge i7-2670QM quad-core
    Motherboard
    Acer
    Memory
    8GB DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel 3000HD / Ge-Force GT555M 2 gigs
    Sound Card
    Realtek/5.1 Dolby built-in including speakers.
    Monitor(s) Displays
    18.4" full-HD
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1024
    Hard Drives
    2x750GB Toshiba internal, 1x500GB Seagate external, 1x2TB Seagate external, 1x640GB Toshiba pocket-drive, 1x640GB Samsung pocket drive.
    PSU
    Stock
    Case
    Laptop
    Cooling
    Air-cooled
    Mouse
    I/R cordless.
    Internet Speed
    Borderline pathetic.
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