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  1. Another caveat regarding the TW801. It's USB3 port does not automatically (Auto Play) see device insertion/removal. Therefore it will not load appropriate drivers for unique devices. It does recognize my Flash stick and my antivirus pops up and asks me if I want to scan the stick. File explorer sees the device and sizes it correctly. But "Safely remove hardware and eject media" on the task bar has no knowledge of the device. The shared charging/microUSB2 port works as expected. I found that plugging a unique USB device into the USB2 port first would auto load needed drivers. Then remove and re-plug into USB3 and it will operate. While these Win8.1 tablets are nicely priced it does feel like one is putting their dollars into a half-baked product...
  2. I gave the WinBook TW801 a try as a JRMC Server. I believe the only difference between the two tablets was my unit had a full size USB3 port. I used the USB3 port with a small hub to support a Seagate USB3 hard drive (JRMC library) and Dragonfly DAC. I kept the tablet attached to its AC adapter the whole time. The goal was to see how it fared in 24x7 operation. For my testing I created a large playlist and set it to repeat. There was little CPU/Memory loading of the tablet while both playing and serving remote clients. That said the tablet has deficiencies. The unit would power down the USB3 disk drive and go to sleep after a period of time. The Dragonfly was not lit so it appeared asleep too. Hitting the touch screen would power up the USB drive and music would resume with a stutter that could not be resolved. Rebooting and restarting always ended the same way. I went to the device driver screens for the USB ports and unchecked the boxes that allowed the device to turn of the ports when it is trying to conserve power. No change, the USB drive and Dragonfly disconnected. Next I tried the Control Panel Power Options. I set the device to "Never Go to Sleep" while plugged in. I also wanted the display to off after 10 minutes so that it would conserve power. Again it would turn off or put the USB drive and Dragonfly to sleep. Also the display never shut off. As a lark I invoked the screen saver and selected a blank screen (Black) and set it for 10 minutes. It did blank the screen but you could see the LED back lighting all around the edges. I even spoke to 2nd level Seagate support and they stated their firmware never puts a unit into sleep mode. I like this little tablet but there appear to be no Power Management under Windows control. They could have rushed it to market and its Power Management is all hardwired within the BIOS.
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