Intel's Haswell Chips Pushing Windows RT Into Oblivion

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"Intel has started shipping the fourth generation Haswell chips for tablets (http://www.citeworld.com/tablets/22385/intel-ships-haswell), which brings power-efficient processors and hence much better battery life to Windows tablets. According to IDG, Intel has now started shipping new low-power, fourth-generation Core i3 processors, including one that draws as little as 4.5 watts of power in specific usage scenarios. These new Haswell processors could go into fanless tablets and laptop-tablet hybrids, bringing longer battery life to the devices. This is a great news for Windows lovers, who have had to sacrifice performance for battery life (and vice versa) until now. Now, with almost 50% better battery life as promised by Intel for Windows tablets, the OEMs have no real need to come out with Windows RT (http://techpp.com/2013/09/10/intel-haswell-tablets/) based tablets and hybrids anymore."

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/09/10/2252217/intels-haswell-chips-pushing-windows-rt-into-oblivion