Microsoft does not hear us, but Infolab had chance to play with a Windows 8 tablet Pro a few minutes ago. No, it was not the Surface. The machine is the Series 7 Slate, which once housed the Windows 7 and looks like a Galaxy Tab 10.1 "extended. But the similarities are limited to appearance: this tablet has guts ultrabook.
The processor is a Core i5 2467M with two cores that run at a frequency of 1.6 GHz Memory In the field, there is 4GB of RAM and a 128 GB SSD. For connections Samsung booked a normal sized USB, a HDMI output, a micro SD slot and a P2 mixed for headphones and microphones, not to mention the dock connector for the keyboard. The screen is also the style of ultrabooks: 11.6 "containing 1366 x 768 pixels. Like other notebooks "inspired by Intel", the Series 7 Slate supports Wireless Display, a technology that transmits video to TVs connected to the network. Of course, these specifications exceed those of any other tablet on the market.
The actual experience of using not only does justice to the numbers of ambitious machine, it surprises anyone who is familiar with ARM tablets like the iPad or Galaxy Tab own Windows 8 Pro runs without any delay, including when running games . We played briefly Pinball X2 and the effects are stunning. Sure, Windows 8 Pro has all the features of a desktop, including the traditional desktop. But let's cut to the chase: how the new Windows 8 UI interface (formerly "Metro") behaves with a touch screen? We can say that our fingers feel at home. Most gestures and shortcuts is quite natural, but simply stumbling at the interface of traditional desktop to stop this impression.
The official launch of Windows 8 will be held in Brazil on 26 October. But this refers only to the system. It is not known with certainty when machines like the Series 7 Slate will be released in Brazil.