Wednesday, February 22, 2012

想试试Windows7平板电脑吗?

电脑行业里庸俗的评阅者太多了, 几十年来都是, 埋没了不少好产品. 他们几乎个个都说Windows7平板不好用, 吓得商店不敢上架, 用户找不到地方能体验一下, 又看到那么多的坏评阅, 很难出手.

其实, 现在很多商店比如OfficeMax, Staples和BestBuy等都有All-in-One的电脑展品, 大多都带有触摸屏, 大家不妨去这些地方体验一下Windows 7在触摸屏上的表现, 看是不是像那些评阅说的那样.

我就是一次偶然在BestBuy里划拉了几下AIO, 才发现那些狗屁评阅完全是胡说八道, 一口气在网上买了两个Win7平板, HP Slate 500和MSI 110W. 果真比我想象的好太多了, 比那些评阅就更是好到天上去了!

客观地讲, 除了双指缩放(pinch-zoom)不流畅, Windows7在其它方面都一点不比Android和iOS差. 你去试试就知道了.

在比较小的屏幕上, 需要将题头栏(Title Bar)和滚动条(Scrollbar)增大些, 就非常适合手指触控了. 那些靠评阅吃饭的人, 居然如此初级的电脑常识都没有, 却在那里大放厥词, 什么"X"太小了, 手指点好多次都关不掉, 云云.

在桌面上的某个空地方, 右击鼠标键, 选Personalization, 然后选Windows Color, 点击你想增大的地方, 然后把尺寸(size)改大到你满意为止. 注意最好不要改其它的项目, 只改Active Title Bar, Scrollbar和Pallet Title三项, 均增大8个点左右, 比如原来是19的话, 就加大到27, 16就增大到24.

原来和现在, 看看那个"X"够不够大了!


当然, 有了这样的平板电脑并不是说就天天只用它的触摸屏, 有可能的话还是接键盘和鼠标或大屏幕. 好处是工作累了的话, 可以坐在沙发里, 一边看电视, 一边再修补一下手头上的活, 或者在广告时段上上网, 逛逛论坛, 看看视频, 回个email什么的, 比笔记本顺手. 如果是用Android平板或iPad的话, 就会发现还是经常要从沙发里爬出来去取笔记本. 出门当然也很方便, 单板走天下毫无问题.

说到这, 这样的平板电脑, 不应当是定位成第二台或第三台的辅助电脑, 而应当是第一位的主打电脑, 因为一般的日常工作和娱乐都完全能胜任, 又便于携带和使用, 价格还不是很贵. 把原来的大型的快速的电脑做为辅机, 偶尔用于一些大型的工作和娱乐, 比如CAD, 视频压缩, 3D游戏等. 像三星的Series 7那样的高性能平板, 一台平板就都搞定; 不过虽然价格和两台机加一起差不多, 我还是觉得两台机器比较好, 尤其是已经有了高速大电脑的话, 比如辅机在做视频压缩的时候, 主机还是可以做日常工作. 对于某些特殊工作者, 比如记者, 需要及时在现场做视频编辑和压缩, 那就还是一台像S7那样的高性能平板比较合适.

其实, 像MSI 110W和HP 500这样的机器, 做一些简单的掐头去尾和排列组合的高清视频编辑, 完全能胜任, 而且不伤画质(用Smart Cutter那样的好软件). 如果要做H.264高清压缩的话(VirtualDub + x264), 比高性能的机器要多花3倍左右的时间. 比如一段1分钟的高清视频压缩, 要花90分钟, 而在高性能的电脑上只要30分钟.

此文在MSI 110W上完成, 采用外接鼠标和键盘:


5 comments:

  1. Thanks for the great information. I also found IPAD are useless when it comes to work and I am looking for a good Windows tablet. Now 6 months past since you post this, do you still think MSI 110W is the most ideal? Thanks.

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    1. For netbook-speed tablets, this MSI 110W is the best. Its C-60 CPU does Win7 fine while all other Intel Atom Z5XX are not adequate for Win7 (very good for WinXP). The next in line is the Acer W500, slightly slower CPU (C-50).

      If you need more speed, especially video encoding, you'd better get a Samsung Series 7 Slate. Its 2nd generation Sandy Bridge i5 CPU supports Quick Sync, providing real-time speed HD encoding, about 7x faster than C-60. New ones are way too expensive though over $1000, but used ones can be found at $700 or so.

      If you can wait, MS's Surface might be out next year. Note: the one due next month is garbage, it is just like the iPad or even worse, cannot run Windows applications.

      ASUS is going to release a Win8 tablet too, but I guess it will be over priced with poor battery life as always.

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    4. Thanks so much.

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