Windows dual boot tablet – advice

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hello everybody, first time poster here

I recently came accross this site while looking for a windows tablet to buy. Some great reviews and advice to be found here!

Anyway, I am looking into  buying a new tablet, with windows. I have an iPad but I am done with it – I hate the system, I cannot stand iTunes, not having any connectivity is a pain… Android only tablet is not really an option since most of the gaming I want to do on tablet is not available for Android at all. I expect to be using the tablet 90% in windows mode

I intend to use the tablet as follows:
1. light general use – emails, some office stuff (word, excell, simple photo editing etc.). Nothing major.
2. browsing the net, several tabs open.
3. watching some movies, full HD resolution
4. reading. Lots and lots of reading. True PDFs, scanned PDFs, kindle, epub, comic readers, you name it.
5. gaming. However, most if not all of the games I will play are turn based strategy games with rather simple graphics, such as these:
Pike and Shot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylRfmPRufY0, sys req: Product page
Thirty Years War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf8D1oS9qTM, sys req: Product page
Flashpoint Germany: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXmA2e0PuKk, sys req: Product Page
Close Combat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uJXWt_nwGs, sys req: Product page

As you can see, none of these games is really that demandind, but I really have no frame of reference for tablet performance. I have no idea which tablet is powerful enough to drive these.

Most imoportant features of a tablet for me are battery life (the longer the better), screen size (nothing bigger than 10.5 inches, I want this to be a portable device), resolution (preferrably above 1920×1080) and picture quality, and of course smooth performance for the tasks I specified above.
Can you recommend something that fits these requirements?

So far, I really like Chuwi HiBook Pro. It pretty much covers all my requirements based on eyeball test: perfect screen size, high resolution, solid battery life. I am only weorried about performance with the atom Z8300 chip. What can I expect? Will it be able to run the games and applications I listed?

I saw the notice about new teclase with z8550 and z8750 chips. Is that something I should wait for? I’d really like to get this thing in the next month or so, and if the gains in performance with better CPUs are not required for my needs, then why wait. On the other hand, if the performance is much improved or if they become available soon, I guess I could wait for a while…

What do you guys think?

(sorry for the long post, I do have a tendency to ramble:))

 

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