DAWN TO DUSK NEWS: HP blaze business tablet trail

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The
 HP ElitePad 1000 inside its 'security jacket.' It is one of the first 
tablets to run 64-bit Windows 8.1 on Intel's quad-core Bay Trail 
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Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft think the tablet is more lean forward than lean back. Are they right? <br />

The PC has one (at least) distinct advantage over Apple.
 Windows 8.1
 isn't a mobile operating system like iOS. In other words, the same 
64-bit Windows 8.1 that runs on a brawny desktop PC now runs on 
featherweight 8-inch and 10-inch
 tablets. <br />

And that may be a good thing because the tablet is in dire need of new markets, with predictions that the rate of growth will drop sharply in 2014. <br />

"As consumer shipments slow in many markets, commercial (business) 
shipments will grow as a percentage of the overall mix," IDC said 
earlier this week. <br />

Enter new HP ElitePad 1000. The tablet design itself isn't especially unique, but the array of accessories that come with it, are. <br />

All are aimed at making it a tablet for productivity -- aka doing work. Those add-ons (PDF) include a productivity jacket, a docking station, a security jacket, and expansion jacket, just to mention a few. <br />

And it's one of the first to run 64-bit Windows 8.1 on Intel's 
quad-core Intel "Bay Trail" processor, which, until recently, ran 
Windows in 32-bit mode.<br />
"The pressure for 64-bit, even in tablets that might not have 4GB of 
DRAM, is pretty strong because IT organizations want to standardize on 
64-bit images and 64-bit apps," Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst at 
Insight 64, said in a recent interview with CNET. <br />

"Intel tended to characterize the first generation of (32-bit) Bay Trail tablets as consumer-oriented," he said. <br />

Microsoft, for its part, has been making 64-bit tablets for a couple of years now in the form of the
 Surface Pro. It led the way, for instance, on the tablet-as-a-PC concept with its Touch Cover and Type Cover keyboards. <br />
 But
 only with the Surface Pro 2, announced last fall, has Microsoft been 
able to make a convincing argument that it's also a tablet. <br />
 The power-efficient Haswell processor gives the Pro plenty of battery life, while still offering the 64-bit Windows desktop OS.<br />
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 And like HP, its accessories are aimed at business. The Surface Pro docking station isn't unlike the docking stations HP has been offering on its business laptops for years. <br />
 So, maybe 2014 will be the year of the business tablet -- as the growth rate of Apple's popular tablet slows. <br />
 
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source::Cnet </div>

Microsoft, HP blaze business tablet trail

The HP ElitePad 1000 inside its 'security jacket.' It is one of the first tablets to run 64-bit Windows 8.1 on Intel's qua...