[Windows 8 General] cutterjohn:
Well, I stumbled across these earlier in the week and while searching for information on them, even though I've sworn off tablets as mostly useless I was intrigued about an x86 tablet in a non-monstrous size and turned up this thread.

Long story short, I ended up ordering from geekbuying(competitive pricing and I'd read good things about them elsewhere), they shipped next day, surprisingly as I'm more used to china sellers that loiter around for a week or so before even starting to think about shipping regardless of their claimed stock status. Additionally geekbuying even had a reasonable DHL shipping cost of c. $6 or so (and similar for their other familiar carriers meanwhile other said shipped generally rape you for not using china post) and well, it showed up this afternoon. 2d from shenzhen->HK->Detroit, which is damned good considering that twice now fedex couldn't get their filthy paws around moving packages from NJ->Detroit in less than 5d. They've just gotten to be AWFUL as even plain old 1st class USPS would've been faster(2d) and even better USPS delivers free on Saturday and doesn't whine often about weather and other such nonsense, meanwhile 0.1" of snow apparently describes a weather catastrophe of national consequences to the commercial carriers.

It came completely charged, plugged it in with a 1.9A charger that I normal have on my Qi wireless charging pad and it showed full battery. (Had to let it warm up a bit at it was 30F high today, yay December in late March although the low of 15F tonight will still be higher than the average high for February... go figure -> merely chilly now...)

It looked like geekbuying(probably) had changed most of the settings to english. While I only booted Android briefly to check settings and turn on wifi it looked to be totally setup for english. OTOH Windows at first blush appeared to be set for english(with a chinese language pack) wasn't quite. As even after setting languages and setting copy to login/system(windows)/new accounts when I tried the new account that I created at the same time at login it came up as all chinese but I guessed enough to get it logged in enough for windows 8.1 to take it -> back to admin(default) account rerun through change language again, and either that loging will forever be chinese or it worked as after reboot and using the new account(admin) it was all english, ah no it wasn't I remember I made it to the godawful metro UI and all of the icons had chinese, so it was after switching back to admin and redoing the language settings that it was english on the next boot.

And so now, I am just completing the last of c. 73 windows updates(damn windows update is pathetically slow, and I don't mean just because this is a low powered device but comparitively speaking the updates weren't much slower than my 3930k desktop manages... I wonder if that's a "feature" of windows as it's ALWAYS been sssslllllooooowwwww on ever version of windows that had online update ability...)

Also got firefox(and some addons... buh bye crappy bing), hwinfo, cpu-z and gpu-z installed, and now the last of the pokey --- updates is finishing(restarting) it'll be time to charge again I think. I was down to 20ish% (24) after all of that. From the little that I've used it, I'll say that it's a bit snappier from an Atom than I was expecting, but I really bought it to monkey with x86 Android and it was 8"(wish that I could still get an 8" x86 notebook ended up with a chromebook 11" i3 as it was the smallest that I could find with something approaching a useful CPU and it got SSD upgrade(128GB) and croutonized although chromeos does have it's points for instant on web browsing but that app crap in a browser ain't going to fly... and 4GB well lets say that 11 tabs open tends to bring chrome to it's feeble knees).

Is it safe to install the teclast Android update for the x80h(dual boot model, obviously)? I believe that I read some 10s of pages back that someone mentioned that they tried it, had problems with apps crashing alot, and were also no longer able to boot win8.1. Operator error of some sort maybe? Or stay away from the teclast update and just root and apply other build.prop fix?

I hate to say it, but so far win8.1 is looking to be more useful in my brief usage, and metro gui as I suspected is marginally more useful on a tablet it still sucks IMNHO as I found myself immediately switching to desktop mode to do anything. Well TBH I tried doing through Metro but apparently it's half-finished as several options I tried essentially kicked me out to desktop mode/control panel at which point I took M$' hint and skipped metro. Only annoyance that I've noticed is that in "Metro" or metro geared apps the virt kb will popup right away while in useful mode you need to manually bring up the kb -> turn off autohide taskbar(sadly, too many problems with it on and getting virt kb icon to work or focus shifting).

Build quality's not bad, then OTOH it's also not the greatest, but for the price it gets a pass. Screen is pretty good, and at least indoors I'm getting good wifi signal strength although I haven't tried it outside yet. It may be that this is possibly a newer batch?

Battery charge level problem: I don't think that I've had it long enough and/or been able to use it long enough to tell if this was possibly fixed as well...

Not a bad toy for c. $130 altogether... so much so that it's making me consider something like a cube i7(I would've just bought had they been available when I bought the chromebook) although I'm hoping to see better specs, e.g. 8GB RAM, larger SSDs possibly with use accessible bays but yeah China stuff probably not going to happen other than they may offer models with 8GB RAM and possibly larger ssds but with no easy way to swap them, i.e. soldered and generally general user inaccessible..