Just a heads up guys'n'gals. You can currently snag this wee beasty from Amazon for the AMAZING price of $599 currently. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...ag=hawk-future-20&ascsubtag=UUwpUvbUpU1910637
I personally think this is the best of the current gen Atom Win 8 convertible tablets - it really does perform rather well.
Some of it's biggest plus points IMHO:
1. All aluminum construction - people WILL think this is a Mac Book Air at first glance - it's beautifully constructed.
2. MicroSD on tablet AND SD slot on tablet both support sdxc protocol allowing for some serious expansion. I currently had both slots occupied with 64GB cards set up with VHD's so Windows sees these as fixed drives. I've increased my storage from the 64GB shipped to 192GB! (Well, I know it's a bit less with recover partition on C Drive and formatting meaning less than actual but hey - it's still pretty darn good)
3. SUPERB battery life. I mean insane. When this is docked it will run for 12 hours easy.
4. Keyboard dock is actually very usable - I know some people have complained about double spaces or random letters but honestly it's easily remedied by turning up palm rejection sensitivity in settings so track pad is not registering brushes while typing. I think I can almost certainly say that double spaces/letters is directly related to how hard you type. If you're a keyboard hammerer you're gonna have a lot more errors on this keyboard. Type softly and it's all good.
5. Last but certainly not least - IT RUNS FULL WINDOWS! Yes folks, this really does give it a huge leg up compared to RT tablets and I know as I had a Surface RT for a while. For this price point - why the **** would you opt for RT over this other than purely aesthetics? And TBH, I'm not even sure that argument flies with the Envy X2 as it is simply gorgeous. The thing only weighs a smidge over 3 pounds with the tablet AND dock. Tablet alone is about 1.3 pounds - very light in the hand. It blows the Samsung Ativ 500t out of the water I'm afraid.
Anyhow - just thought people might like to know and may be interested in a few user points from someone that has one.
If you have any other questions then feel free to ask.
Sent from my Windows 8 device using Board Express Pro
I personally think this is the best of the current gen Atom Win 8 convertible tablets - it really does perform rather well.
Some of it's biggest plus points IMHO:
1. All aluminum construction - people WILL think this is a Mac Book Air at first glance - it's beautifully constructed.
2. MicroSD on tablet AND SD slot on tablet both support sdxc protocol allowing for some serious expansion. I currently had both slots occupied with 64GB cards set up with VHD's so Windows sees these as fixed drives. I've increased my storage from the 64GB shipped to 192GB! (Well, I know it's a bit less with recover partition on C Drive and formatting meaning less than actual but hey - it's still pretty darn good)
3. SUPERB battery life. I mean insane. When this is docked it will run for 12 hours easy.
4. Keyboard dock is actually very usable - I know some people have complained about double spaces or random letters but honestly it's easily remedied by turning up palm rejection sensitivity in settings so track pad is not registering brushes while typing. I think I can almost certainly say that double spaces/letters is directly related to how hard you type. If you're a keyboard hammerer you're gonna have a lot more errors on this keyboard. Type softly and it's all good.
5. Last but certainly not least - IT RUNS FULL WINDOWS! Yes folks, this really does give it a huge leg up compared to RT tablets and I know as I had a Surface RT for a while. For this price point - why the **** would you opt for RT over this other than purely aesthetics? And TBH, I'm not even sure that argument flies with the Envy X2 as it is simply gorgeous. The thing only weighs a smidge over 3 pounds with the tablet AND dock. Tablet alone is about 1.3 pounds - very light in the hand. It blows the Samsung Ativ 500t out of the water I'm afraid.
Anyhow - just thought people might like to know and may be interested in a few user points from someone that has one.
If you have any other questions then feel free to ask.
Sent from my Windows 8 device using Board Express Pro