“MSI had a CES preview yesterday in Taipei and we got our hands on the MSI Windpad 100W their 10 inch Windows 7 tablet. Not much has changed with the Windpad since we saw it at Computex in June, the build quality still feels like a prototype and the processor is the Intel Atom Z530, which is old school hardware,” Nicole Scott reports for Netbooknews. “MSI claims that this is the highest they could go with out installing a fan.”
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Scott reports, “To get into the specs of this 10 inch tablet we have an angled camera as well as a front facing camera, HDMI, 4 in 1 card reader, SIM card slot, 2 x USB 2.0 and 32GB SSD. It also comes with Bluebooth and the screen is capacitive multitouch and it also sports an accelerometer… We weren’t able to get an idea for pricing [or availability].”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: As if their own lack of imagination, design skills, and foresight weren’t enough to kill theses companies, they’re looping the Microsoft Windows noose around their necks.
Apple has once again caught the tech world completely unprepared. Like deer in the headlights, they’re frozen dumbstruck, excreting piles of crap.
…”It looks very prototype-y”
No, that looks polished to me, in true M$ style.
Is anybody seriously going to buy this thing? If this really is all M$ and its’ partners have got to offer in terms of tablets, then I’m buying 300 more shares in Apple the day after Ballmers’ CES speech.
Windpad? Really? Hahaha
Landfill.
As usual…feature rich on the surface…but, as usual, it’s a machine without any oil. But it’s ok, because, as usual, they will release it as a beta and fix it later.
I always enjoy a breaking wind pad story. Could the innovation shocker be a scratch and sniff feature?
He was tapping that thing so many times to get it to work I thought he was sending morse code messages.
ouch. Not a good review or a good piece of hardware to give some to test out. Too many problems- even had to do something different when he couldn’t get the thing to work. And this is what they are proud to show at a major show?
@iStepchild,
If by later you mean 2013-14 when Windows 8 Mobile CE Tablet Edition comes out, then yes.
So when he says its a multi-touch screen he does mean you have to touch it multiple time to get it to do anything you want it to. What trash
Who says you can’t review a computing device without testing it in person?
The small percentage of techgeeks that trolls Engadget and Gizmodo will love this thing. 4-1 card reader, Windows and HDMI are the features that will get them creaming with anticipation.
Nothing and I mean nothing to see here folks — move along! Just another disaster. Anyone have the blue tarps? Oh wait, Costco will have those in stock by May, now that they can’t have the real thing.
It’ll do music, it’ll do Internet, it’ll do email, it’ll do instant messaging…
I like our strategy, I like it a lot.
“You don’t even have to remember it’s name.” Kind of said it all.
• Thick, heavy, old school, …
• Unknown price, availability, battery life, apps, …
• Missing software, unresponsive to touches, glued in ports, …
You all know Apple showed you how this was done a year ago and will be shipping another 65 million this year. Looks like a big iPhone. Do they really think this Windows 7 tablet is an iKiller of anything but themselves and Microsoft?
YOU ALL ARE YEARS BEHIND AND THIS GAME IS OVER. YOU NEVER SHOWED UP FOR THE FIGHT!
a Windbag would probably be more useful
Oooh, shiny buttons and ports too!. I like the camera switching button, that worked well.
MW: parts, as in crappy ones
bound for the circular file, file 13, or a nice ocean cruise aboard a barge headed for electronic WASTE recycling in China.
Be kind to ocean life, do not throw Window 7 devices into the ocean – they have enough problems.
It’s going to fail, you know why it’s going to fail? It’s nothing to do with the spec, size, battery life, number of ports…
…there’s no CTRL+ALT+DEL button!!!!
MSI:
Microsoft Showcases Ineptitude
“That puck was here a year ago….”
Break Windpad…
http://www.getsoftwareonline.com/
I love the way the reviewer has Microsoft Paint open in landscape mode, and it fills the entire screen, then he rotates it to portrait and Paint is suddenly in a square window; you can see the desktop in the bottom half of the screen. Then he rotates it back to landscape and instead of the Paint window filling the entire screen like it did previously it stays in a square window and you can see the desktop on the right of the Paint window. Very professional coding there M$
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And seriously, what on earth can you do on that thing? All the reviewer could manage to do was scribble “Hello” into Paint, nothing else worked properly or looked remotely easy to use. Hey Ballmer, here’s a clue; you can’t just shoehorn Windows onto a touch screen!
“so that’s pretty decent”
yea, except for the fact that you just wrote ‘hello’ in Paint, and any other program on that thing will be a UI nightmare.
What is this for, exactly? Is this what Paul Thurrott would consider, ‘getting real work done’?
Why on earth is it being reviewed at all?
These [insert apple product] killers are getting so damn predictable.
1. Imitate the general look of the apple product
2. Add more buttons
3. Add more ports and connectors
4. Add size and weight
5. Use a smaller (and thus less effective) battery
6. Ensure the user interface (regardless of OS) is far more clunky
7. Try to sell the new product as revolutionary
Done!!
100W – is that the power consumption of that thing? Maybe it comes with belt clip batteries.
Really, wow. I have to say, my instant reaction is sadness. This is even worse than I expected. This is terrible. Will I miss Microsoft? I have no reason to, but they did remind us of the old days, of beige boxes and floppy discs.
*pours whisky on tombstone*
MS is totally screwed in the tablet market because:
1. They think Windows is the ultimate tablet OS
2. Windows has to use Intel Atom chips which are still terrible compared to ARM chips.
3. They still think that some kind of mobile Office compatibility will be the magic bullet for their tablet aspirations, but all the Apple/Android users have realized that Office/Windows is entirely unnecessary in the mobile space.
Even if they had a fantastic tablet UI/OS, the Intel chips are underpowered, overpriced, battery sucking hogs, yet none of the pundits are pointing that out.
The huge crack in the screen really adds to the sales presentation!!! What a joke!!!
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Soon enough they`ll be shipping them by the ton to some 3rd world country to be used as roofing shingles, cutting boards or bathroom mirrors.
It’s a netbook without the keyboard! Also when will the learn that a widescreen aspect ratio is rubbish on a tablet?
Ouch! That hurts!
The reviewers last comment pretty much sums it up….
“The Winpad 100W you don’t even have to remember the name. It’s just not going to sell. I’m sorry about that.”
What’s sad, guys, is that the dolts on sites like PC World are gonna list the specs and the Apple haters will fill the comments section with “now, this is how it’s done…,” and then not buy them.
Oh. So, not so sad after all.
But seriously, MS has their phone OS which has gotten pretty good reviews. So why by all that’s holy do they try to squeeze Windows 7 (which has also gotten pretty good reviews) onto a mobile device?
Could Ballmer be Jobs’ sleeper agent in Microsoft?
I started to think that if this device had been introduced, on the market, ten months ago, it would have been considered, a stunning breakthrough. But it would have needed to be on the market before the iPhone, not the iPad.
Now, . . . it’s just another ineffectual, proposed (vaporware) device, way too late and little, to the game.
ok let’s see here:
windpad, Now that! is a name! hahaha, wow
not much has changed since the last one eh?, frankly not much has changed since the first windows tablet (at least from what I’v seen)
accelerometers?!?!? windoze doesn’t have support for those, and even if it did, there is absolutely no software with support for them.
multitouch? last I checked you could only click in one spot on windows, and there is no software (except maybe glove pie) which would support multitouch
ah what a good laugh. when MS dies I’ll have to find a comic strip or something
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Bluebooth! That’s a killer feature.
“This is the accelerometer and as you can see, it’s not too bad”
Looked laggy as shit to me. Standards aren’t very high I guess.
the wow starts now…….again
“The Wow starts now”
Wow, really?! Who would pay money for that. I wouldn’t even be able to give them away.
Multitouch?
He sure had to multitouch to get one thing to work!
@ JakeB
What he said is sooooo true. They do the typical side by side hardware specs. The iPad always looks inadequate and missing the perceived standard ports configuration that PC world thinks everyone must have. So it looks awesome on paper and they can brag all day long and forward the side by side spec comparison charts to everyone…
USB will be essential because it will be miserable without a keyboard and mouse. I know what it’s like using windows 7 on my iPad through the “desktop” app.
Door Stop
A nice THICK ONE too… gmafb
“… the processor is the Intel Atom Z530, … the highest they could go with out installing a fan.“
…
I am at a loss.
Microsoft’s Way: (presents vapor ware) “Lookit! Here’s what we’re gonna do in a year or two! See? See? We’re innovative!
Apple’s Way: (presents a completed product) “Here’s what we’ve done. We hope you like it as much as we do.”
That review made me laugh! Everything shown was pretty much a disaster…
MS sucks!!
Why is it so difficult for these tech bimbos to figure out the difference between a gyro and an accelerometer?
I guess this tablet is the next of kin….
Why are they reviewing that kind of thing or even making a video out of it?
Would it not be better to review or make a video of a [any other] product that works?
What a waste of time.
Just by looking at the OS that comes with it you feel the heavy need for a mouse.
It is really unbelievable, and frustrating at times, how they (MS and comrades) insist in cramping that OS in whatever kind of “PC” or otherwise that comes out, and they’ve been doing if for decades. It is an OS that’s been out there for decades now and they are still trying to force it into pretty much anything.
Remember windows CE?
Remember windows for pocket PC?
Remember windows mobile? Oh wait that’s still there.
Remember windows for the first netbooks? (I can’t recall what was it called)
And many others that I no longer remember…. Or don’t even know about!
“Remember windows for the first netbooks? (I can’t recall what was it called)”
I meant to say first TABLETS of about four years ago.
“Pretty decent”?!? Wow. Imagine what the droids would be saying if Apple ever let an embarrassment like this be filmed.
Looks like a big phone to me… Very ugly…
Because that was what everyone said about the iPad when it was launched.
Atom? On Windows 7?
HAHHAAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHUUUUHUHUHUHUIHIHIHIHIHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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