Although we already knew quite well the characteristics of the new Asus tablet with Windows 8, the Asus Vivo Tab, we still had to discover an important detail about it: its price. Finally, the first approximations to what this new tablet could cost us begin to emerge, and place its price around the $600.
From the IFA from Berlin, the tablets that will be launched this fall with Windows 8 o RT Windows as an operating system, they were no longer a mystery. In fact, the Technical specifications of the most important of them. However, the issue of Prices remained in most cases a unknown, despite the enormous amount of speculation that have arisen around the issue, especially with Surface, Microsoft's own tablet, as the protagonist.
Now we receive from Engadget the first news about concrete prices for the Live Tab, the bet of Asus. The price that is predicted, $600is not particularly surprising, as the company's hybrid tablets for Android presentan similar prices (about 400 Euros for the TF300 and 600 Euros for the TF700). In any case, with an idea of ​​their respective prices, the undecided can start deciding: the comparative Among its models for Android and for Windows that we already present to you, it is more timely than ever.
Seeing that Samsung's Windows tablets will be worth between 700 and 1200 dollars, waiting to see what other companies do, and especially the final price of the Surface, what seems to be confirmed is that we should not expect a great revolution in terms of prices with the arrival of Windows tablets. If we take into account that the Vivo Tab is one of the least powerful among those that will bring the Microsoft operating system, (it will work with RT Windows and its wreck, at first, it had been speculated that it could be around the $300), we can imagine, unfortunately, how far the prices can go up for those that presented higher technical characteristics.