[Windows 8 General] cutterjohn:
Well, the T300 Chi came in pretty late, and took c. 1.5h to charge to full, or that was the time that I checked after plugging it in, so it might have been a little less to hit full.

The the bad news starts. It took OVER 3h for it to install a lousy 107 updates which ate up most of my time to play with it. I did install hwinfo64 to do a quick check of compnents.

The good news was that after a while, I ran hwinfo(sensors only) and could see that the 5y10c was regularly parking itself @ 2GHz(both cores) and hit a max temp for 58C under the mostly heavy CPU load.

More bad news, I had it parked in notebook o the table as I wasn't really expecting updates to take that long, and finally gave up and put it back on AC once it hit less than 50% batt level and still wasn't close to being finished. That tells me that it looks under purely CPU load that it will likely get c. 4h 30m on battery, not good.

I ran out of time to do anything else with it since it was so pokey at installing updates, which I still will say does NOT AT ALL bode well for performance. I'm already thinking that this is likely going back next week, but I'll give it some usage over the weekend and have the v3 Dell active stylus coming in today that I can also test.

Size: It's not quite as bad as I had thought. It's only a little larger than my Acer chromebook i3(11"), but from what I've seen on battery and perf so far this is NO WAY an even close to $700 machine. It'd be more of a value in the $4-500 range.

Also the slow updates made me start wondering about why M$ chose the x7(z8700) for their Surface 3 over core m 5y10 is that performance would be close as I'm sure the true bulk pricing on the SoCs aren't that far apart and the slightly cheaper x7 gave them more profit margin. I'm sure that Surface 3 id going to be another device that would only be of value if it were more realistically price, probably $350-450 range v. it's current $600? For the useful model, which already is a bad price perf/build/etc. unseen as Acer Aspire Switch(5y10c/4GB/128GB) can be had for $599 from ucenter.

I'll make another post on this once I've had a chance to use the T300 chi more, and might wait until I've also had a chance to try out the stylus as AFAICS it's the only realy plus it's got going for it ATM, i.e. a digitizer/stylus support. I haven't used a decent stylus on a device in a long time, and certainly not one with more than basic functionality so don't expect much on stylus commentary other that it looks like it works and does the job (for me) or not. (My only recent encounters with stylus are the crappy finger replacer ones for regular cap screens w/no digitizer.)

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Well had a chance to use it a bit more in notebook mode. Wifi range is easily the poorest of all the notebooks, tablets, and phones that I own.

Performance ends up light web browsing being about where I expected, or somewhat better than atom although that is difficult to accurately gauge as I'm sure that 4GB of RAM helps as 8 would help even more(should be min spec for current device IMNHO).

Design is nice, keyboard is so-so. I'm even more of the opinion now that this IS a $500 device and NOT a $700 device as far as fair pricing for value goes.

Yes, 12" is WAY too large for tablet use.

I'd arrange to return it today, but I want to try out the stylus before sending it back. I'll also install and try a few games and then probably package it back up for return.

Bottom line I like it, but NOT $700 like. Had it been $500 I'd probably just keep it.

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