You’ve already seen our in-depth hands-on with Samsung’s Series 7 Slate, boasting an Intel processor and running Windows 8, and now it is time to give the alternative guys somewhat love. We got an opportunity to sit with the people at AMD, masters of the Fusion APU, before the Expo doors opened here at Build, and it’d be a sarcasm to claim that they are eager about getting their x86 chipsets running on Windows 8 machines. As with Samsung’s Slate, AMD was showing off a couple of slates we have seen before, specifically the Acer Iconia Tab W500 , running at the company’s C-50 APU, and MSI’s WinPad 110W , sporting the Z-01 APU. Here is the primary the company’s seen of the Metro UI running on its chipsets, and prefer them, we’re impressed with its performance. You will get an identical speedy boot-up here, in addition to fast and fluid touch navigation. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to be giving up details on future devices, but we should always see Brazos powering Windows 8 tablets, desktops , and notebooks in due time. For a glance at AMD powering Windows 8, try out our video after break.
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