Saw one of these at Best Buy.....there is NO WAY I would get one of these things with only 6.25GB free. Lenovo should be ashamed for putting one of these out with so little free space out of the box.
The average consumer would expect more with a 32GB unit. 6.25 free is kind of a joke.
the average user is well aware of the fact that they wont be getting the full 32Gb to begin with because it comes preloaded with the system and software. Even my parents know that. But surely 7Gb of free space is way too little. I myself was a bit disappointed when my Acer Iconia W510 only had like 17Gb of free space, I'd expected it to be around 20-22GbThe average consumers also don't take into account OS memory usage and bloatware. These kind of thing was already discuss with initial release of surface pro and RT. As long as it had SD card it wouldn't be an issue for me cause I would know what I'm getting into. What else would you expect for a $299 tablet running full Windows? The average review on Amazon don't even speak on the memory issue.
DUDE, go to ******* best buy and look at one. I saw it with my own eyes or I wouldn't have posted here.
I have a dell venue 8 pro and it had under 5Gb after it installed office. USB otg cable and removed the restore partition, installed a 32Gb SD card, have 11Gb of play with vlc and a whole lot of apps installed. Put movies on thumb drive to watch, pictures I want to keep at hand on SD card, you know the smart thing to do. The average consumer should not buy if they don't know what they are buying.
The irony of all of this is, ok, so you put Office on it and you have 5Gb left for some Windows Store apps. What are you left with? A tablet with the same functionality as Surface RT with less space and just a little room to install and run the x86 apps you thought were a purchase advantage in the first place.
If the amount of space quoted by the op is true on what is left on the miix then that is just straight up bloat. I have have an Asus VivoTab Rt mind you it is the LTE version from at&t and with office fully installed with all my apps and Windows 8.1 I have 18.1GB free right now. Just like Palandri said "The average consumer would expect more with a 32GB unit. 6.25 free is kind of a joke." This indeed has to be a joke or I know not to ever buy a Lenovo as it will have major bloat.
Ok. So I tell you what, you find a 32 GB tablet that doesn't have half the memory loss due to the OS. Go ahead. I'll wait.
I have to agree, the manufacturers should not sell a device as a 16 or 32 gb model. They should be sold as simply having "x" amount of free space out of the box.Saw one of these at Best Buy.....there is NO WAY I would get one of these things with only 6.25GB free. Lenovo should be ashamed for putting one of these out with so little free space out of the box.
Ok. So I tell you what, you find a 32 GB tablet that doesn't have half the memory loss due to the OS. Go ahead. I'll wait.