Anyone using a non-Atom Windows 8 Pro Tablet under $500 yet? Budget Windows Tablet

JoshInRI

Thought I would be the first to start this string.  

Is anyone using a budget (under $500) Windows 8 Pro based Tablet yet?

RT turned out to be useless and several of the well documented Windows Tablets here in Logos forums are overpriced at over 1K and often work too slowly as well.

Lets hope we get to populate this post with replies soon and that Logos is planning on developing on a Windows 8 platform in such a way that with fingers or stylus we can use full L5 functionality soon.  

How I long to find an inexpensive Windows based Tablet that functions as an ereader while still permitting me to use the full functionality of Logos 5 (and not just to read books).

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Bill Anderson

Joshua,

As I responded in the previous thread, I tried out a Samsung ATIV 500T with an Atom chip, 2GB RAM and a 64GB SSD, but I paid $599 plus tax. It can be had on Amazon now for $549. It ran full Windows 8 but was unfortunately very slow to load and to scroll resources using touch in Logos. It has the same specs as other Atom-based Windows 8 tablets, except that it has an active digitizer. An active digitizer is a must with Logos because Logos is not optimized for touch and you need to be able to use a stylus to navigate. 

I took the 500T back and bought the 700T, which is much, much better for running Logos. However, it is outside of your price range. If you can deal with the performance hit, the 500T is otherwise a great tablet for the price.

While there are other Atom-based full Windows 8 tablets out there for under $500 (Asus, for example), I don't know if any have an active digitizer. All of these tablets have the same specs as the 500T without the active digitizer, so performance will be approximately the same.