Google nexus 7 review part Zwei:A $159 Windows 8 Pro tablet able to play the likes of Diablo III,Starcraft 2,Max Payne 3,Sins and Flash as fast your desktop

My nexus 7 is currently running Windows 8 Release Preview, using Splashtop HD.

In just a few seconds after installing Splashtop streamer on my laptop and purchasing the Splashtop HD app for Android I am using the most gorgeous 7 inch 384g Tegra 3 12 core GPU powered Windows 8 pro tablet  at a total cost of $159, no need to lust after those yet to be released surfaces  and no need to compromise with ARM and RT when you can have the full Windows 8 Pro experience ( here represented by the Release Preview).  


With Windows 8 Hand writing recognition I can test the finesse of the nexus 7 touch screen. And as you can see it copes with my insanely bad hand writing quite well : 

then we can start using all the toys in Windows 8 ,panes ,charms and desktop 

On our nexus 7  Windows 8 RP  tablet we can open Metro apps whilst opening other apps , take advantage of  real browsing with full java flash and even silverlight as you can see below all in the palm of one hand ...

Your google nexus 7 Windows 8 RP tablet is of course capable of far more than playing simple App or Flash games so let's begin by playing some Max Payne 3 straight of Steam :

or those perennial Blizzard favourites : Diablo III 

which plays like this 

and Starcraft 2 : 

which plays like this 

Warcraft to follow ! but for now let us indulge in a little nostalgia , with The Secret of Monkey Island , here running in a Chrome browser , this is Dos Box but not as you know it , the game being streamed within the stream of Windows 8 that is being streamed using Splashtop to the nexus 7 ! Still with me?  Well playing Dos games in a browser this way does away with the need to download a dos app or to worry about side loading roms . 

Naclbox is still in its infancy but has come a long way running in Chrome and as a Chrome Store App both of which options you can indulge in when streaming Windows 8 on your nexus 7 using Splashtop. 


Now let us move on to another of the PCs finest Sins of A Solar Empire Rebellion : I have never seen this game look so cool as it does streamed to the nexus 7 : And consider you can play this on larger tablets but the weight gets you after a while, the 7 inch screen of the google device is perfect for this game check out some shots and much video below as I come to grips with the interface : 

My Windows 8 tablets are many as you can tell by my coverage of Windows 8 since the first preview was released last November within hours I had it insalled and running on Atom , i5 , i7 , dual 7 inch and 14 inch tablets used as surface computers months before the big M came up with the term ( or not ) but none of these devices looks as cool as the google nexus 7 with its feather weight , and high res screen. 


As your hardware say your desktop , laptop or even Windows 8 surface is doing the grunt work the device you are actually using the nexus 7 remains amazingly cool in your hands . 


Most people including very highly praised pundits at Apple Google and Microsoft probably still see the tablet form factor as a walled garden app delivery device , I know I and others used to rage about that in the days of iPad and when Steve was still physically amongst us . Today though your first use of of any iOS or Android tablet may be in fact be to stream a full OS by passing all the walled gardens altogether and what is more the likes of Apple , Google and Microsoft are reaping benefits ,so if you are a long time Windows soon to be Windows 8 fan , there is nothing stopping you running the full OS streamed on your iOS or Android device.  Nothing to root , nothing to hack no dodgy side loading app stores , it is all official and simple. 

I firmly believe that the physical desktop and the traditional gaming console as a form factor are dead  and the arrival of the Google Nexus 7 is just another nail in the Lian Li Pc Armorsuit  coffin of my desktop.  Very soon we will just lease server time , streaming to tablets like the nexus 7 irrespective of OS and so it is that my favourite  Windows 8 machine is actually an Android Jelly Bean tablet , the only one that I can hold in one hand by the way...

Thanks to the cloud we already game on PC using onlive , we are expecting to on consoles and tablets and phones and store and stream most of our data and media in the cloud. 


For now streaming in this way we may be tethered to our laptops or even desktops but thanks to the progress made by the likes of Splashtop , the ever expanding cloud ,faster wifi and tiny actually portable tablets like the nexus 7 that tether grows weaker every day.


Windows 9 and OSX puddytat may just be the first OS release that require no hardware on your part , you just stream from Apple or Microsoft's server farms to whatever generation of iPad , Android or Surface tablet  your have lying about ....  


More Google nexus 7 usage to follow ....



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