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[IFA 2014] Toshiba kickstarts the cheap Windows 8 tablet revolution

Low prices are the reason that more Android tablets are sold than tablets running other operating system, but that price advantage is about to be erased by a new generation of Windows 8 tablets starting with Toshiba’s latest tablet, the 7 inch Encore Mini, which has just been shown off at this year’s IFA convention in Berlin, Germany.

The Toshiba Encore Mini runs on a quad core Intel Atom processor which, by virtue of its four cores, is most definitely part of the Bay Trail generation of processors which have proven that they have more than enough grunt for everyday work on Android machines although we’ll have to wait and see about their performance on smaller Windows tablets.

Along with the Bay Trail processor is 16GB of on board storage, which can be expanded with a microSD card of up to 128GB, and just 1GB of RAM as per the new minimum requirements for Windows 8.

The display is a rather lacklustre 1 024×600 resolution and the camera on the back of the tablet can take photos at a resolution of just 2 megapixels, but because of those sacrifices the Toshiba Encore Mini will cost just $120 (R1 283) when it goes on sale this week.

If Toshiba do bring the tablet to South Africa we would expect pricing closer to the R2 000 mark but that should still pose a very interesting proposition for many looking for a tablet.

[Source – Engadget, Image – Toshiba]

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