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Notebooks, MacBooks, netbooks, now tablets: Microsoft’s new Windows 7 pre-beta has had another chance to do its thing, this time on Motion Computing’s diminutive LS800 Tablet PC. GottaBeMobile dug out the 8.4-inch touchscreen slate and, paying no heed to its “CPU challenged” 1.2GHz Pentium M processor, did a fresh Windows 7 install. Considering this computer would choke with Vista, to say Windows 7 was a success is an understatement.
Check out the demo video after the cut
The overall system performance rating – a single point - doesn’t initially fill you with confidence, but break that down and it’s only the low “gaming” score that’s undermining the LS800. Processor comes in at 2.7, RAM at 4.1, Graphics at 1.9 and Hard Disk at 3.4.
The proof of the pudding, though, is in the user experience, and the LS800 gets a new lease of life. Near silent running, very sporadic fan use, automatic driver downloads and most of the Windows 7 Ultimate functionality works. Check out their demo video below.
2 Responses to “Motion LS800 Tablet PC gets Windows 7 treatment: huge success”
Paul Tidwell December 3, 2008
I have put Win7 on my LS800 as well, and it runs as well or better than the original WinXP Tablet OS. I am running 1GB memory and the speed, handwriting recognition, RAM to run other programs is better than VISTA. Since this is BETA, I was not surprised to learn that drivers for speaker, microphone and security are not available. Additionally, and disappointingly, I am unable to run AVG Anti-Virus and several other software packages with this version of Windows. Compatibility with most recent versions of these software packages is not assured. Will keep watching!
NeutralMax Zamorsky January 18, 2009
I did install it on a motion LE1600. And although Windows 7 was availabe only as beta 1 and there are still some issues, I can only agree to the performance gains. Read more here on my blog: http://max.zamorsky.name/2009/.....tablet-pc/
Neutral