HP: our customers want x86, not ARM tablets

Or maybe Windows 8 RT just doesn't work

According to an article on the computing website.
http://bit.ly/M1ntZX

By milliganp on 2 Jul 2012

HP customers

what kind of idiot would voluntarily be an "HP customer"?

talk about a contrarian indicator. On the basis of this, RT will clean up.

By gavmeister on 3 Jul 2012

Drivers!

I can well believe some of these clowns are having trouble writing device drivers judging from my experience over the last few years.

By jgwilliams on 3 Jul 2012

@gavmeister

The business kit has generally been of very high quality, although I haven't seen the last generation of business hardware.

I agree, the consumer stuff, at least at the low end, is pants, but the long life business PCs have been solid and reliable in my experience.

If you are buying for a business installation, you are fairly limited in your choice of suppliers anyway. Generally you have the choice of

Lenovo, HP, Dell or Fujitsu as the primaries, if you aren't so worried about long life (i.e. the same model, same mainboard, same graphics chip etc. being available over several years), then second tier suppliers like Acer and Asus also come into the equation, but you are generally limited to a handful of manufacturers for business kit, if you are ordering in large numbers and need things like vPro and consistency for producing standard images.

By big_D on 3 Jul 2012

@milliganp

The article says that Qualcomm and TI are having trouble with their drivers, but Nvidia are doing OK. I didn't see any issues with Windows RT itself.

By tirons1 on 3 Jul 2012

so my companions on the London to Manchester train at 7am will have thrown away their lap tops and will be using HP X86 tablets (with a keyboard/mouse attached)

mmmmm?

By cping500 on 19 Jul 2012