Dual OS Tablet : Windows and Android ViewPad 10Pro Tablet
Here
finally is a tablet that can rid you of all the grouse that you may
have had so far of tablet PCs running Window. That too without having to give
up on Android. Welcome the new ViewPad 10Pro from ViewSonic that dual boots both Android and Windows. The 10
inch tablet with an Intel Atom Oak Trail processor was being showcased by
ViewSonic since early this year and now it seems its finally ready to hit the
streets.
One
of the biggest pluses with the ViewPad 10Pro is its battery life that has gained a
degree of respectability, which in turn can be attributed to the use of Intel
Z670 Atom processor based on the Oak Trail platform with a clock speed of 1.5
GHz. Run-time is touted to be in the range of 8 hours on a single charge which
is a couple of hours more than what Wintel tablets are generally known for.
Another
big advantage of the ViewPad 10Pro is its ability to run both Android
and Windows application. Also, even though the tablet runs both the
Windows and Android operating systems, yet the device is not a dual boot one in
the truest sense since you won’t be required to reboot in order to switch
between the two OSs. Instead, a tap on an icon is all that is needed to switch
between the two. This since the base operating system is Windows with
Android running over it as a virtualized layer over Windows. ViewSonic
attributes this feature to the use of a software named BlueStacks.
As
for its specs, the ViewPad 10Pro comes with a 1024 X 600 pixel 10.1 inch screen
based on capacitive multitouch technology. The tablet includes a 2 GB RAM and
can support up to 32 GB of max storage capacity. For output the tablet has HDMI
out port and it can playback 1080p HD video. It also has support for
802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
There
are two version of the tablet — one which runs Windows 7 Home Premium
and Android 2.3 and is priced at $599, while the other at $699 has a 32 GB SSD
running Windows 7 Professional along with Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
However,
the tablet still runs the risk of skitling out of public memory soon as the
world has moved on since the tablet was first announced. Its Windows 8 that we
are looking forward to and the new Windows version is making all the right
noises so far. Android too has made steady progress so that its the tablet
optimized Honeycomb version that is doing the rounds now and its Ice Cream
Sandwich that is next in the pipeline. But who knows, the tablet might be
upgradeable to both the new versions of Android and Windows.
