The 'Spring into TEGRA' Contest: Win a Tegra-powered Windows 8 RT Tablet!

[miodrage]

WOW, nice one, giving away Surface RT
Can I have one please? Can I? Can I?
I have owned an iPad1, but due to desperate situation with cash at that time, I had to sell it, which I did. Now I owe only my trusty Lumia920 (love it more than myself), and my DIY all-in-one computer


So, please, get me a new tablet

P.S. oh yeah, I don't want to post my picture, as I would scare the **** out of most visitors here, and what is a forum without its members?

 

[drg]

Here's a picture of my tired and worn out laptop.. literally. It just never wants to wake up. It takes like a minute to wake up from sleep, 2 minutes to resume from hibernation and goodness knows how long from boot. I turn it on in the morning, go take a shower, eat some breakfast, make a coffee and come back and its still on its way to the log in screen. I tried giving it a coffee once, but didn't change a thing. I use it on the train next to 80 year old grandmas with their iPads and I'm sick of their smug little faces as they watch me turn the thing on at the start of my ride only to find out my stop has arrived and I barely got to touch a key. I need a Surface or VivoTab. I need one now. I don't know what could happen if I don't. Look I'm not saying those bandages didn't come from general wear and tear but I do know I can't continue living like this. Please give one to me. I will forever be indebted to you!

 

[overclockthesun]

Well, I don't have a netbook nor do I have a Tablet So here you go. MY daily companion the venerable Defy from Motorola.

 

[FrodoBaggins]

I need a more updated tablet.

 

[bor42]

My netbook: Lenovo S205:

I know, I know: "why do you need a new one?". Check this out, no editing or anything, just opening and closing the lid.

So yeah....it's impossible to use it at night or when someone is sleeping in a few block radius.

 

[mr-mac]

"You think you've got it bad??? My wife boil washed my Laptop!!!!! And not only did it shrink it's in Japanese "




Lets see what he's working on



erm :angry:


Ok so let's make a rare, quite appropriate (due to OS) and historic entry. Why do I need an RT tablet? Well, a year ago I was forced into giving up work (which I enjoyed) due to ill health. Effectively took voluntary redundancy as my work took over 4 months to sort me a medical appointment and left me without wages of any kind - just after voluntary was offered I got appointment lol and would have been entitled to long term disability through my work - a bit late now isn't it!!!!! - funny how it took 1 month to organise first medical appointment then when it mattered and I was left without wages it took 4 . It's not really a choice to take voluntary when you have a baby to look after and no money coming in.

So I have very little cash and make do with the hardware I have. So what is this rare and unusual device I speak of? It's really the daddy of netbooks but even smaller. The year is 2001, the company is NEC (made for Ntt DoCoMo), OS = CE .net 4.1 and cpu is a 400mhz xscale with Ati Image on gpu, with 64mb ram, cf and sd slots and topping it off a 5" 800x480 semi transflective with resistive touch.

Now I've hacked and redirected dll's as far as I can and had made it a quite useful little device. It has basic office apps, and old opera mobile browser, media player (cracking sound due to a good wolfson dac on board - even with over hear schenheiser phones it drives them to great volume with seismic bass), email, basic photo editor. I have Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and gps cf (even hacked a bought copy of TomTom to run on it) cards.

So tbh honest as a fit in suit jacket, easy type, potable device it's been a cracking little thing but it's just becoming a pain to use (web is getting too heavy for it's little processor, battery is very past it's best, photos are too large to edit and ce 4.1 prevents modern satnav software running (needs 4.2 min). Office has moved on a lot so finding it harder to open docs from others and despite my best efforts to hack WM software or ce 4.2/5 software it's just not possible to keep it going for useful tasks any more.

I'll bet you've likely never seen a Sigmarion or seen the odd mention here or there. So I beg you, as a long suffering abandoned MS OS user who's reached the end with the device and can't get out of the house so often so getting online is great to keep in touch with others.... please please send me a shiny RT tablet (loved ARM devices since days of an Acorn Risc PC) and allow me the absolute pleasure of eeking another 11years out of a single device

the picture below shows myself with a friend from Slovenia who visited Scotland a few years back now. We were both on the hpcfactor forum and met up for a coffee (and so he could climb) at the Edinburgh international climbing centre. We took the photo for the forum and it shows... left to right... My friends Psion Netbook Pro, My Smartbook G138 (had to sell to get by) and lastly the tiny Sigmarion 3. Which I suppose is an interesting and historic little line up from early days of ultra mobile (long battery), touch screen computing when laptops were seriously big and heavy. Without these forerunners in mobile computing (Psion 5, HP Jornada 720, NEC mobilepro etc etc.) then I think the landscape and OS's would be a lot different (well after all CE went on to become WM and then WP7). Touch screens on mobile devices came from these early ultra portable companions. So maybe even IOS, RT/8, netbooks, powerful powerfrugal cpu's that allowed the early properly portable mobiles wouldn't have been ready (ARM as a company would be a lot different without these devices setting a market for mobile cpu's).

Now am I wrong or are the devices in this picture more interesting and appropriate to this site than an old laptop dug out of the garage (I could do that too) or a pad and a pen :winktongue:

Even if I don't win, which I'm sure I won't, I still hope you enjoyed seeing a photo of my boil washed laptop for a 2yr old or the photo below with some rare CE devices together in one place (If any interest in some more pics and details of any of the 3 rare devices just ask)

Kindest Regards

John :excited:



PS that's me on the right my hair is a lot whiter now (must be stress of waiting on the little edwardian cpu churning away :grincry: ). You guys with old android/web os/ laptops have got productivity and usefulness of an epic nature compared to a 12yr old 400mhz arm with 64gb ram and you've pretty much all got desktops or something else lol. I had to borrow a PC to type this on as this site no longer loads very well on my NttDoCoMo Arthritic asthmatic 3 (or is it Sigmarion 3).

 

[Faise]

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This is my HP touchpad (and Lumia 920, shown in the reflection with me). It's served me for it's intended purpose, but it's time is over. I need a Surface RT or an ASUS VivoTab to now further my studies into whether tablets are more effective, when administered to cyborgs, than suppositories. Thanks.

 

[grol4]

This is me locked up by my little ChromeBook. While Chrome is acceptable as browser, the OS is not.
Some complain about the lack of apps on RT, while I think: You can install something, I don't...

No connection is no response. That's Chromebook. Some tell differently, but this is my experience.
I'm a student, so need a pc to work on and sometimes the schools WiFi fails to connect.
In such situations I just see a large paperweight.

To top all that: The laptop is falling apart. The corner facing the camera is splitting in two, revealing the components.

So that's, plain and simple why I need a Surface. WPCentral, will you help me out?

 

[ssapre]

I would like to have it for my friend rather, who is tired up of working with old gen devices.


He got an old phone, a personal laptop (4 yrs old) and then an office laptop, there is nothing cheering him up to work on the assignments. He is having simple tasks, which can be completed with a notebook, but he has lost all his interest in the work because of outdated devices with him.

Please allow me to help him with some new gen devices.

 

[shahmir riaz]

Guess what? I don't have any tech-thing in my home. Thatswhy I really really need a windows8 rt tablet

 

[greatjoy59]

Need I say anything more This is why I need a Surface or Asus Vivo Tab for my use. I have been eyeing the Vivo Tab for a while now. But my son says I will have to wait quite a while before we can get it. Please WPCentral save me from this "tablet" of mine and give me a Windows 8 RT Tablet rly:

 

[Illumiroom]

I need it since my kid keeps breaking my tablet.


Here's a Cinemagraph:
Nokia Memories

 

[rictersmith]

Why do I need a Microsoft Surface or ASUS Vivo Tab? Are you kidding me, my old tablet is litterally eating me alive! I can't stand it any more. I ABSOLUTLEY need one of these so I can finally kick my old tablet to the curb and move on with my life. Its been a rough and rocky relationship. We've finally come to the point in our situation where it is just holding me back and weighing me down, we need to separate. By sending me one of these new, lighter, faster, and improved devices, you would be saving me from a heart attack. Being a father of 3 young children, you will rejoice in knowing that by extending my lifespan they will contiue to have a father in their life and I'll be able to walk my daughters down the isle one day, capturing every moment of their childhood with the integrated camera. Their photos streaming directly to the projector as they take their first dance on the floor with their spouse and with hundreds of family members watching, remembering the day when WPCentral choose their father as the winner to recieve the opportunity to capture their youth and live a longer, happier and fuller life.

By not choosing me, you are sentencing me to death and the early loss of a father to 3 little children. PS - My wife says if I get a million likes, she will name our next child WPCentral Jr.
PPS - If you don't click like, that must mean you hate children, hate WPCentral (my future child's namesake) and do not care about others.

 

[nickault]

Me with my resistive touch tablet that I won as a door prize. Not only is it terribly slow and unresponsive, but any apps downloaded are uninstalled upon reboot. Why I need a Windows 8 RT Tablet: I am addicted to tech and electronics, and would love to have one of these!

 

[blinkk2]

This was a hard one to take with me in it as the laptop couldn't go anywhere with all those cables in it - but somehow I managed. Lots of sounds came out when pressing the keyboard with the back of my head - but I managed..

Why I need a tablet: because - as you can see - my laptop is actually a desktop. The battery is like dead - lasts for 5 minutes tops - enough to hold it in sleep mode until I get to school or work and back. So little to no mobility. Also, a tablet would mean I could stop carrying the heavy beast and it's leash to school 4 days a week (and also to work) and every time plug and unplug a dozen of cables. From the development perspective it would mean that I could continue developing a nice game I started like a year ago as a school project - which I stopped developing because my laptop - obviously - doesn't have an accelerometer and the game relies on one.

I believe those are the main reasons why I'd want one of the two tablets: mobility and development - maybe in another order :amaze:.
And the picture of me and my Acer.

 

[thomas-mendoza]

I am a big windows fan, but have not had the $$$ to purchase a New Windows Tab.

WP Central is awesome & Nvidia produces the best graphics hardware..

 

[mustafarefaii]

 

[Marcelo Velazquez]

Little Bob wants go get retired. 4 years old and counting.
Also, no Windows RT on Paraguay. Pleaseee Upgrade me.

 

[Narse77]

Here is poor sad me with my only portable device besides my phone and it died on my two days ago. It's is a IBM ThinkPad 600e about 8 or more years old. I could really use a tablet for meetings and work in the airports when my job has me travel. I cannot think of a device I would rather have than a Windows RT tablet!

 

[APWaaijenberg]

Hi WPCentral team!

Me and my husband are a huge Windows fans and professional .net developers. We both have a windows Phones, currently mine is an upgraded HTC HD2[SUP]7[/SUP] with a large scratch on the screen. ?'m holding out until the Lumia 620 becomes available. But still a great Phone only get's you so far and you certainly cannot develop on it. So you will regulary find one of us using this computer, with Visual Studio or MSDN open, while the other is waiting for his or her turn. You see our Tecra (not Tegra) M7 convertible is one of the best digitized friends we ever had. It moved with us from XP through Vista and Windows 7 all the way to Windows 8. Memory was replaced and maxed out. You might not think it is still cool but it's certainly hot. The fan blows like crazy even while I write this post. But it is still fast, and beats my work laptop with PGP encryption easily. It boots within a minute.



You see, it may be heavy but it's our pal, and best friends stick together, literally. It fell a few times and we patched it with tape. The power cord broke. We bought a new one on e-bay but that broke also after a few months. So my husband patched the old one with half a a clothes peg and another piece of tape. When the tape let loose a few months ago, we heard sparks and saw smoke. We don't smoke and we don't think our computer should, either. So we bought some real orange silver tape that will stick and hold it together. It looks great, not?

Apart from this there some small inconveniences that come with age. When you flip the screen or switch user, the display gets crazy, like you see in the picture. But that is easy to solve by putting the computer to sleep. After a little nap it is back up and running. The monitor connector stopped working so we can no longer attach it to our TV or a monitor. And of course the original battery ran dry, after 4 good years. 2 years ago we bought a new one one from ebay, a chinese replica. Cheapness comes at a price though. Windows doesn't show how much charge is left, so if we are computing without the cord for over an hour the computer just shuts off without warning.
Lastly, the original pen that fits in the computer got lost and so now we use the reserve pen that is stored in the battery bay. Needless to say this little thing often gets misplaced, too. Windows 8 with the pen is great, pen recognition works perfect. But it's meant for fingers and when we gently touch the screen from right to left, more often than not, nothing happens. However the Tecra still charms when we press Windows-C.

When we get a new Tegra friend, we plan to make Windows 8 apps on the old Tecra, and test it on Tegra, a real touch RT tablet. Life would be great!

Thanks for being considerate,

Ana Paula