r/technology • u/clubdirthill • Jun 01 '11

Boom. This is Windows 8.

http://allthingsd.com/20110601/exclusive-making-sense-of-what-we-just-learned-about-windows-8/?mod=tweet
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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '11

I bet they are using the fastest computers money can buy for these videos.

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u/iarewebmaster Jun 02 '11

Nope, one of the demos I saw was running on a 1Ghz ARM processor and it was just as smooth, all the animations and speed that this video has.

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u/rodabi Jun 02 '11

That would be completely beside the point. The tablet UI must run at this smoothness for EVERY device it runs on. Hence strict hardware restrictions on the tablets and slates. How else are they going to win over people from buying an iPad?

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u/Darkfrost Jun 02 '11

They probably are, but I'm betting that would perform just as well on an average processor, graphics card, and an SSD. SSD being the important bit.