ViewSonic Launches Combo Windows, Android Tablet with Soon-to-Be Outdated OS’s

ViewSonic Launches Tablet with Soon-to-Be Outdated Windows and Android OS's

ViewSonic's double OS pad of paper, the ViewPad 10pro, is now available for pre-order via Amazon.com. That's the good news. The penitent news is the tablet that runs both Windows 7 and Android 2.3 Bone is in peril of being outdated before it loses that "new car smell". Here is why.

The ViewPad 10pro caters to businesses and "prosumers" World Health Organization want to replacement betwixt Windows 7 and Mechanical man. Sounds expectant, but the ViewPad 10pro runs Android 2.3, not tablet-optimized 3.0 (Honeycomb) and not Windows 8. The ViewPad is expected to debut sometime at the end of Lordly.

Even with the elder translation of the Android OS and Windows 7 this appears to be a safe tablet, at least on paper (PCWorld has not reviewed the ViewPad 10pro yet). However, despite Windows 7 organism a expectant OS, the coming Windows 8 OS is being billed as perfect for devices such as tablets. As buzz grows about Windows 8 (Microsoft plans to swan Windows 8's capabilities next month at the BUILD conference) the question remains will consumers balk at purchasing a Windows 7 pill running an older variation of the Android OS with Windows 8 buzz gelatinlike in the air?

Great Features

If you bathroom't wait until Windows 8 makes it onto a tablet and like the flexibility of having both Android and Windows 7 on a slate, the ViewPad 10pro does offers around nice features, as this video shows. Android runs as a virtualized layer on Windows here soh you can switch between the operating systems by tapping on an icon, rather than having to reboot. Who knows; you may be able to rise to Windows 8 when it comes unsuccessful.

The ViewPad 10pro too uses the new battery-life-chummy 1.5GHz Intel Atom processor Z670, openhanded it a little bit of an edge over older Windows 7 tablets. Information technology features 1080p full HD video playback on the 10.1-edge in screen, a unobjectionable 2GB of memory, HDMI port, and little SD card one-armed bandit for equal to 32GB of additional storage space.

Priced at $699 for the Windows 7 Pro version with 32GB drive away or $599 for the Home Premium interpretation with 16GB drive, the ViewPad 10pro is a little on the high-ticket side, simply it is customised for occupation users. Available for pre-order instantly at Amazon, ViewSonic's mechanical press release says the ViewPad 10pro will be widely available in unpunctual August with "limited Book of Numbers currently procurable"-from where is unclear, as searching for online merchants from the ViewPad's product page brings up no results. You only undergo to look few much weeks if you deprivation this dual OS lozenge, though.

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