[Windows 8 General] cutterjohn:
So, hey guys, been a while since I posted, but I have since purchased an amazon basic BT kb, and a rocksould BT mouse(newegg). Also purchased a case for it off of aliexpress, which must be some kind of "official" case as it DOES have X80 stamped on the outside. The case is surprisingly high quality, although I don't care for the cutting of the framing material nor the securing mechanism -> ends up the outer edges of the case partially(mm) cover up bits of the screen but o.w. it's pretty damned good for $10, helluvalot better than PU "leather" Kindle voyager case(spine cracked already <1m of usage).

In the intervening time I installed a PNY(IIRC) UHS-I 64GB usd, installed steam to that(set to not auto-start).

So today I took a few minutes to install a few minimalistic games: Block Story(originally Android, but also available for iOS(IIRC) and obviously windows although Android gets updated the most as it's their "test" platform), Eschalon Book I, and FATE(original) as I figured that these would be a good selection of potentially playable games.

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keyboard:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005EOWBKE/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

mouse:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826498007

case:

http://www.aliexpress.com/snapshot/6565255337.html?orderId=66471480769549

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Prices have gone up quite a bit apparently since I ordered, as the kb + mouse cost me $15 and $10 respectively when I ordered.

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To that end I tested Block Story(with the kb & mouse) lowering some of the default settings and letting it run 1280x720 fullscreen which seemed to work well for the first couple of "tutorial" start "quests"(moving, gathering wood). Panning the view around was fluid as was response to kb, although the mouse lagged a bit but I surmise that is because the mouse probably "sleeps" after a few ms of inactivity until used again.

I only wished that I could have found a type pad copy case for this thing, i.e. a BT kb/trackpad combo fit for this(and/or maybe similarly sized tablets).

I haven't touched android at all since receiving this(and probably won't, so I guess in retrospect a dual boot device was a waste of onboard storage).

However it is now making me look into other x86 "tablets" sporting realistic memory(4GB+) and at this point non-atom SoCs, e.g. core m(but they're so damned expensive right now and getting to 8GB is like asking for the earth to be moved somewhere else just for you, or at least their outrageous costs imply that since it's all soldered non-user modifiable crap). I'm also more interested in models that at least have some user maintenance access, but all I've found are the Dell Venue 11 Pro 7140s which allow wifi/SSD/batt changes but at an even more EGREGIOUS price($1k for 5y71?! WTF?! I can buy a Sager 7339 for that! WITH a GTX 960m AND 16GB AND quad core haswell FFS! (i7-4710MQ)). (I already own a 7330 i7-4800MQ/765m so...)

Still as well as this anemic device works, it's making want better, but as implied above I am in utter disbelief what "better" is apparently fetching. (So badly so that I pre-ordered a T300 chi QHD, cancelled for crap batt runtime, and then ALMOST bought a NIB surface 2 pro/256GB(for 8GB RAM) but non-user maintainablity(at least the batt FFS!) made me just say NO WAY JOSE.)

Also, I installed the Intel driver update utility and it was claiming that my vid drivers were 18.<something> while ALL of my other utils(GPU-Z hwinfo etc.) were listing 10.<something> IIRC(dated june or july 2014) and the driver update was offering 15.<something>. Do any of you know if it is "safe" to let it download and install the 15.<something> drivers? i.e. anyone tried?

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My emmc is a biwin. Purchased from geekbuying, but I've had none of the wifi or other problems mentioned earlier in this thread... and as the few posts above I'm halfway tempted to just convert the x80h to a purely windows tablet... especially since I haven't bothered to boot android since initial setup when I received this and DO have other android(ARM albeit) tablets and devices...

Odd that hwinfo does NOT list storage directly and I was only able to find the info under device manager... but I guess that hwinfo is really targetted to desktops/notebooks with "real" hardware...

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WiFi: even with Intel(AC AND N) AND "killer networks"(now cisco) I have intermittent problems with my notebook wifi as well, and now my desktop since the cheapest AC solution that I could find was a PCIe/mPCIE adapter for an Intel 7260...

Intel drivers are USUALLY pretty good, and my wireless environment is CROWDED so I'm going with it's just going to happen no matter what I have from time to time... may be the driver needs some corner case work or we're uncovering a hw bug, but since the killer networks N card does it as well, more like congestion and spec recommended problems IMO...

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