Microsoft shows off new Windows 8 tablets, notebooks and more

By on Sep 13, 2011 at 1:25 PM
Computers September 13, 2011

During Microsoft’s BUILD conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft execs took the stage and showed off a number of new tablets, notebooks and desktop computers running its latest Windows 8 operating system with the new Metro-style user interface. Steve Sinofsky demoed the operating system running on ARM-powered devices, Qualcomm powered devices and even one tablet running NVIDIA’s upcoming quad-core Tegra 3 chipset. One desktop computer, the HP Phoenix, is expected to be unveiled later this week, although full specs on the system have still not been announced. We’re impressed at the versatility of the new operating system and love that it can run anything from a small netbook with 1GB of RAM to a gaming rig running multiple graphics cards in SLI. Microsoft will also be giving out a “Samsung Windows Developer Preview PC” to 5,000 developers at the BUILD conference. It’s equipped with 4GB of RAM, a 64GB SD card, a microSD card slot, HDMI-out, NFC support, Ethernet and more. AT&T will also provide owners of the tablet with one year of free data service with 2GB of data per month. Be sure to check out the gallery below for shots of all the great hardware Microsoft showed off at BUILD.

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    • Anonymous

      I just got a $829.99 iPad2 for only $103.37 and my mom got a $1499.99 HDTV for only $251.92, they are both coming with USPS tomorrow. I would be an idiot to ever pay full retail prices at places like Walmart or Bestbuy. I sold a 37″ (HDTV) to my boss for $600 that I only paid $78.24 for. I use BidsOut.c om

      • Afds122222

        your mom is still a whore as stated before

      • Nothing

        sane to urs

    • Dr. Robert Richardson

      Whatever asswipe….I just hope Tegra 3 is paired with more than a piss-ant 1 GB RAM running Win 8.

  • http://twitter.com/mbcls ask me

    i will only buy windows 8 tablet!  only Windows OS able to runs java applets like streaming stock quotes or streaming level II quotes!

    • Anonymous

      Ooops

    • numetheus

      And an easy to use program to teach you English!

  • JohnPA2006

    To all the iPad fanboys, 
    I would like to quote the following from Qui-Gon Jinn.

    The rumbling being the oncomming Win8 Tablets, 
    JarJar being the apple fanboys.

    Qui-Gon Jinn: Do you hear that? 
    [a rumbling is heard in the distance] 

    Jar Jar Binks: Yeah. 

    Qui-Gon Jinn: That is the sound of a thousand terrible things headed this way. 

    Obi-Wan: If they find us, they will crush us, grind us into TINY pieces and BLAST us into oblivion! 

    Jar Jar Binks: Hmmm… yousa point is well seen.

    • JohnPA2006

      Meaning your time is coming to an end Apple lovers.
      Get your Windows8 Tablets now….

      • Anonymous

        Yeah keep telling yourself that over and over again and it may come true. I do recall at 2010 CES ballmer showed us all the great “slate pc’s” that were coming. How’d that work out?

      • JohnPA2006

        I did tell myself that…. go try and visit a flash page, you Apple lover you….. :o P
        (with flash content, not flash video, dont think your cute with SkyFire either )

      • JohnPA2006

        So which are you more mad with, me likening apple lovers to JarJar Binks, or that you spend 500$ dollars on a tablet that cant run flash…….. ohhhh feeel the burn ….

        (totally messing with yuo MacBoy15, iPad are still dominant, but the Windows tablets are going to 
        be a real thorn in Apples side from now on…. ) unless Microsoft kill it off like they did the Kin phones and Zune devices.

      • http://twitter.com/GRZLA Grizzly Atoms

        The deference between a Windows 8 tablet and an iPad is that the Windows 8 tablet will be a full blown Operating System and not a super sized iPod OS.

      • Anonymous

        How is their time coming to an end? Apple is going to stop making tablets and all current iPad owners are going to throw them away? I’m lost.

      • Anonymous

        windows tablet will eat the useless android tablet

      • JohnPA2006

        Pretty much, yeah !
        Y U No want to like da Windows 8 tablets?

    • oddknee

      That was the gayest post….ever.

      • JohnPA2006

        OddKnee you forgot to add your signature to your post.

        ….. Sent from my LeapPad Explorer       

      • Anonymous

        LMAO! My Daughter has one of those!

    • Guest

      When I tried to watch a video on YouTube, I was notified that I needed
      to update my Flash player to version 10, which I was further notified
      was not available for my 64-bit Web browser. It prompted me to install a
      beta of 11. This kicked me over into Desktop mode. I reinstalled. I
      restarted. No luck. I still couldn’t watch James Brown dance. It was,
      precisely, every Windows and Flash usability cliche in you’ve ever heard
      in the space of a few minutes. – Gizmodo

  • Matthew Maggio

    I am so sold on these tablets. This is the reason I returned a Galaxy Tab 10.1 yesterday.

  • Wsabri80

    This event is in Anaheim, CA not Los Angeles.

    • Anonymous

      Anaheim, more specifically, Orange County is nothing but a suburb of LA. Seriously, stop being a dumb ass. There is a reason they refer to it all as, “The Greater LA Area”.

  • macdaddybuff

    no disrespect because I am completely neutral.  I own a few apple products and android phones.  But that has to be the most cluttered,god awful mess of a homescreen picture I have ever seen.  The tiles all over the place just look horrid.  Looks like they let some 5 year old design it. It might be a good tablet in some ways but if my homescreen looked like that I would shoot myself yuck.

    • macdaddybuff

      On the positive note old grannys will have no problem touching the big ass tiles all over the screen or reading them for that matter lol.

    • K Harshil

      if a 5 year old designed it then I guess that 5 year old has better creativity than you along with me cause to me this looks some real amazing work. this OS, for once, makes me think can gave apple’s iOS a real run for money

    • Anonymous

      i don’t get how a row of live tiles like that would be less appealing than a row of static icons? at least here you will get bite-sized live updates and i think it may be customizable in terms of number of tiles to show based on each users preference (or so i hope).

  • http://twitter.com/computer_tweets KW

    Apple take note.  This is how a real tablet looks like.

    • http://twitter.com/stickyicky97 stickyicky97

      I love to hear the Apple Killer chants.  Look, this tablet looks like a nice prototype with great specs, but by the time it comes to market, what will Apple have in the works or released?  Also, it takes more than just great specs to make a product successful in the market.  Just ask HP, RIM, Samsung, etc…I’m all for competition, so come one; come all!

    • Anonymous

      Ok, you are under the impression that people actually want to use a tablet to work, the form factor is the most limiting aspect of the tablet. Once you have to add an external keyboard it really reduces the purpose of the tablet. 

      For mobile work an Ultrabook would do nicely, maybe even a touch screen one. 

      For media consumption and the huge market of people that use computers just to study, do home work research, email, chat and play causal games, they can avoid a computer and just rock a tablet.

      Post PC is meant for those that don’t need an actual computer, but just an internet capable device.

      So Apple’s direction, bring Internet device to those that don’t need a full fledge PC experience in a immersive experience. 

      Microsoft direction, bring the PC experience to the tablet to remain relevant regardless of the practicality of it because people can always buy external keyboards and mice. But seriously, if you are going to buy those for your tablet, why not buy an Ultrabook?

      It is great Microsoft has somewhat of a thinking cap on, its great for progress and competition in the tablet space. But I see Windows 8 as a hit OS for the touch PC market.

      Windows 8 touch PCs will be what wow shoppers at Best Buy and what they will most likely buy over the tablets. 

      In the end the market will determine which direction is the one they want for tablets, not a BGR rant or a group techies that praises the hell out of a preview build of a product that is still months from shipping. 

  • Guest

     isn’t even going to run Windows 8. And the hardware has an x86
    processor, not ARM. When this Slate ships, says Microsoft, it’s going to
    have Windows 7 on it. Microsoft doesn’t even have a name for this
    thing, which it was sure to note (repeatedly) is not the first Windows 8
    device.  – Gizmodo

  • Anonymous

    ‘Microsoft will also be giving out a “Samsung Windows Developer Preview PC” to 5,000 developers at the BUILD conference. It’s equipped with 4GB of RAM, a 64GB SD card, a microSD card slot, HDMI-out, NFC support, Ethernet and more”Nuff Said!! MS is showing that those features SHOULD come stock to a tablet. Especially for $500.

  • Anonymous

    I hope Apple sues the shit out of Microslush and gets the courts to ban those HIDEOUS tiles – True Story™®©

  • MrEvil

    Give me a Windows 8 tablet from Asus and the Nexus Prime phone and I’ll be good to go.

  • Anonymous

    First.

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