Windows 8 Tablet/Review

The Samsung Series 700 tablet will be coming soon, and when it does, it will have Windows 7 on-board. But Samsung likes to get products into developers' hands, as evidenced by its Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Chromebook giveaways to attendees at Google's I/O developers conference.
The Pros

It has the ability to plug in a hard drive or flash drive into the USB port, and then access data as if it were your PC. Only few Android tablets offer this capability (Toshiba Thrive, Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet)

File transfers from USB seemed speedy , and images looked great on the 11.6-inch, 1366 by 768-pixel display.
Image and text rendering. 

Microsoft has had a ton of experience here. And after seeing the same images, Web pages, and text on the the hardware-accelerated 700T with Windows 8 compared to the Apple iPad 2 (iOS) and Galaxy Tab 10.1 (Android 3.1), the text rendering on Windows 8 to be better; It wasn't as bad as on iPad 2 , or Galaxy Tab .
Images looked great, too--sharp and with good color balance. 

In the  Web browser view , the Android browser also did a fine job rendering and presenting the images and text.
Size. 

It certainly felt roomy and appealing for reading and viewing content.
Interface.

The modernized Metro style interface present in the Developers' Preview felt well designed and was intuitive to use. Even the handwriting recognition worked well
Performance. 

Microsoft touts Windows 8's fast boot times, and the 700T's startup time, while not quite as impressive as in the Windows 8 demos, was certainly fast.
The touchscreen responded well to touch-typist typing, swiping between open apps was speedy, and file search for images redraw faster . This Developer Preview PC from Samsung came loaded with Intel's second-generation Core i5 processor, 4GB of memory, and a 64GB solid-state drive--it's clearly beefier than typical Android Honeycomb tablets, which have 1GHz dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 processors, 1GB of memory, and between 8GB and 32GB of flash memory .

The Cons
Design and Interface. 

Samsung usually gets the design details down, but some elements of the 700T's hardware are still rough. It has a USB port cover that's useless, buttons that are inset just by that extra millimeter or two that makes them hard to press, and a microSD card slot that has no real protection.
Size and weight. 

At two pounds, this is the heaviest of the tablets we've seen, albeit one that has a solid-feeling build quality . That 11.6-inch display adds to the heft, and to the sense that this is too heavy to hold in one hand for any length of time.
Noise. 

The fan rarely shut off and the constant whirring noise was an unwanted distraction compared with the blissful silence of the iPad 2 or Galaxy Tab 10.1.
Heat.  

Even though the fan engaged often (and loudly), the 700T got super toasty. Sure, it needs to cool that hot Intel Core i5 CPU inside, but the heat, coupled with the fan noise--and the next point, battery life--are tradeoffs that many consumers won't want to make on their tablets. The display emanated heat, and the back was warm to the touch, in spite of the generously sized air vents at back.
Battery life. 

The battery life on this preview unit was abysmal. Windows' desktop interface reported about 2.5 to 3 hours of battery life, and it drained down fairly quickly in use. 

Of course, the past three complaints may be solved outright by the use of ARM chips inside a Windows 8 tablet. But as it stands today in the Samsung 700T preview unit, Windows 8 is a severe disappointment compared with the quiet, 10 hours (roughly) you can get with a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 or an Apple iPad 2.