Psst! Wanna Buy a Windows Tablet for $199?

If you think Windows tablets are too darn expensive, Toshiba wants a word with you. The company's latest tablets, called Encore 2, run full Windows 8.1 and start at just $199.

For that price, you get an 8-inch tablet with 1,280 x 800 resolution and a quad-core processor. It's powered by a quad-core Atom chip with 1GB of RAM, and there's 32GB of storage, which you can augment with a microSD card. Battery life is rated at up to 10 hours, and Toshiba offers a 10-inch version with almost exactly the same specs for $269.

To hit those price points, Toshiba is preloading the tablets with Windows 8.1 With Bing. The new variant of Windows, which leaked in February, is Microsoft's latest move to enable Windows tablets to go toe-to-toe with cheap Android models — like the 7-inch $110 Excite Go tablet Toshiba also just announced. Read more...