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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 01 2013 @ 01:33 PM EST
The local Tesco supermarket.

Lots of Tablets, Nexus 7, Samsung Notes, Kindle fires, Archos units. EVen one
being marketed as a tablet especially for kids.

A very small collection of big laptops running Windows 8, an Ultrabook running
Windows 8 - My wife really liked the aesthetics until finding out the price,
even more so when the 'Salesman' described it as low powered and that it was
designed for portability. She walked away when he said 'but it's powerful enough
to run Windows 8 really well and you wont have to learn anything to use as it's
really just like Windows 7 underneath the screen it starts up to'

There was one netbook right next to it on the shelf running Windows 7 at half
the price of the Ultrabook. My other half smiled and walked away completely,
not happy that All the screens were locked on a screensaver that just showed the
specs. You couldn't use the machines to test them, even the Nexus 7 was locked
using facial recognition software.

The salesman's last gasp for attention failed when he retorted 'The reason all
the screens are locked on a screensaver is because they have found the Windows 8
machines crash and need to be repaired too often if customers use them so the
decision was taken to lock them all down. That even he wasn't given the
password to unlock them to show anyone! '

Now I wouldn't consider Tesco my first choice to buy a computer. You buy the
Nexus 7 cheaper online than from a Tesco shop. Many consumers would whilst out
shopping.

They had Windows 8 for sale shown by empty boxes on the top shelf. Good value
according to the salesman, although he didn't know if it was 32 or 64 bit or
both on the same disk, he didn't think most people would notice any difference

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