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MSI will release a tablet
TAIWANESE MANUFACTURER Micro-Star International (MSI) has said that it will be showing off a tablet at the next Computex show in June.
With so many firms jumping on the tablet PC bandwagon there is no longer room for the tuba and some of the trumpet players are having to walk.
The rumour mill claims that MSI's Slatebook tablet PC will run Windows 7 using one of Intel's Menlow Atom Zxx series processors. It will have a 10-inch display and built-in 3G and WiFi connectivity. No one knows what the battery life will be like on the system. The unit reportedly will be priced below $500, which will put it within range of the Ipad.
Digitimes thinks that MSI is also considering a tablet PC based on Nvidia's Tegra 2 platform and is in the process of evaluating market demand.
Whatever happens MSI's Slatebook will also feature e-book reader capabilities and the company is said to be negotiating with content providers and software designers. Apparently it has iced its own e-book reader project. µ
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Why not take the Adam tablet features and mass produce that?
We want a nice clutter free bezel with a screen that works out doors and a real-world battery life of at least 10 hours whilst web-surfing.
Can't see any Windows 7 tablet getting close to that.
I've seen a demo of a new display coating made by British scientists that reduces glare off a screen by 90%+.
Why aren't the big players putting this on their laptops/tablets?
Watch the BBC programme 'Museum of Life' to see the demo.
Surprised the Inq. hasn't caught on to this major development. Maybe they don't actually read these postings? ;-)
If the tablet bandwaggon is propelled by Intel Atom Z processors then you won't have to walk fast to keep up.
And I LIKE tablet computers. Just not any of the ones on sale so far - much.
This is substantially informed by a disability that means that tablet and touch computers are the only ones I can use without serious immediate and subsequent physical pain.
I would like the Fizzbook Spin that I currently own and use, and, well, I do, but I haven't yet managed to resize its kooky Windows XP system partition, which I believe to have been messed up by someone using Windows Vista or Seven to format it. So when I use XP or Linux tools to resize, it won't boot Windows. And I wanted to do the resize before getting serious with it - objective: to be able to image the system and program partition, independently of data, in case of a need to restore.
And XP doesn't come with speech recognition, except in the special "Tablet Edition", which you don't get so much any more.
Meanwhile, new tablets expand battery life - thank you - but very much at the expense of processor power and RAM. So as personal computing machines - speech recognition is my Eldorado there - they aren't advancing.
Atom + Windows x = Fail :-))