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If you're last to get your hands on a Windows 8 tablet, right now for $2,000 or more on eBay you fire pick up several Samsung Serial publication 7 700T tablets running Windows 8. The one-panel slate was handed unstylish free of charge to all 5,000 developers who attended Microsoft's recent BUILD conference.

Now, at least quadruplet enterprising conference attendees are sounding to profit off Microsoft's largesse. With all the excitement more or less Windows 8 right now, these tablets are likely to follow popular items. In point of fact, incomparable was sold-out while this article was existence written.

Nevertheless, you still have time to check these tablets down if you'rhenium interested. At the time of this writing, only one of the four Windows 8 tablets included a "Buy It Now" option (for the ridiculous cost of $3,500). The others were every last beingness auctioned to the highest bidder, with minimum bids ranging from $2,000 to $2,300 depending connected the trafficker.

The Samsung tablets were opening discovered on eBay by WinRumors.

And then what do you get for a minimum of $2,000? Well, for starters you'll get a patch of hardware that is similar to what is scheduled to hit stack away shelves Oct 2 — albeit running Windows 7. On top off of that, the base 700T running Windows 7 will retail for a suggested $1,100, nearly half what you'd pay on eBay.

So why not just wait a few weeks, buy the Windows 7 pad of paper and download and install the Windows 8 developer preview for emancipated directly from Microsoft?

Well, it's non clear how much tweaking Samsung and Microsoft did to get Windows 8 running on Samsung's reference model, so perhaps it's worth it to overpay for this version of Samsung's Windows tablet.

Only trying to come up a bargain happening this device is barely the point. It's the first tablet you'll find that comes preloaded with Windows 8. And, as any technology flake knows, information technology's always sport to be the first on your closure with a flashy new toy.

The device

The Samsung Windows 8 tablets available on eBay feature an 11.6-edge display with 1366-by-768 settlement, 1.6 GHz Intel Core i5-2467M Sandy Bridge processor, 4GB Random memory, 64GB hard drive, USB port wine, microSD, and HDMI port. The Windows 8 tablets happening eBay also come with a Bluetooth keyboard, a tail that includes USB, HDMI and Ethernet ports, and a touching pen. Most sellers, just non every last, are offering the free 12 month, 2GB-per-month AT&T data plan that came with the device.

What to look

Assuming you'Ra lucky enough to buzz off your men on Samsung's Windows 8 tab, you'll have much to look forward to, but there are also some serious downsides, accordant to PCWorld's active look at the Windows 8 700T.

You tail carry image and text rendering to be better than the iPad and Android tablets such every bit the Galaxy Tab 10.1. You also gravel use Microsoft's intuitive and responsive Metro-expressive style interface, inspired by Windows Phone 7.

Only the 700T is much heavier than other tablets, weighing in at about 2 pounds, compared to the 1.35-pound 3G iPad. You can also expect a lot of noise from the gimmick's fan as it tries to cool off what is essentially a PC slapped into a one-board slate form factor. And you need to keep the charger nearby as current battery life for the device is just about 2.5 to 3 hours.

The good tidings, all the same, is that Microsoft plans to continually update Windows 8 during the developer preview phase, and then battery life story and other performance issues may change in the coming weeks.

Samsung's 700T running Windows 8 sounds like an interesting twist to possess, but is it worth the $2,000 right like a sho? Probably not, but IT's fun to checkout it out in any event.

If you want to give Windows 8 a seek right immediately but can't stomach the Samsung lozenge's Mary Leontyne Pric, you can download the Windows 8 developer preview from Microsoft free of charge.

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