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Samsung announces its Series 7 Slate PC
KOREAN ELECTRONICS FIRM Samsung has announced its Series 7 Slate PC, which runs Windows 7.
The Series 7 will be powered by one of three chips, an Intel Core i3, Core i5 or a Pentium. It will have an 11.6in LCD touchscreen and the 64-bit Home Premium version of Windows 7.
Damian Cusick, general manager of computing at Samsung said, "For professionals longing for the productivity of a desktop PC together with the portability and usability of a tablet, Samsung has introduced an innovative form factor designed to revolutionise the way they work. The Samsung Slate PC Series-7 takes the laptop a full step towards total mobility - a revolution in portable computing."
The hardware will be like that of a desktop with 4GB of DDR3 RAM, a 32GB or 64GB solid state drive and an Intel HD Graphics 3000 GPU. In addition there will be front and rear cameras at 2MP and 3MP, respectively, a full size USB port, a microHDMI port, a microSD card slot and an Ethernet port.
The tablet won't be as thin and light as Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 at a slightly hefty 12.7mm and 860g. Samsung says the battery life will be a maximum of seven hours.
A docking station will mean that the device will be usable as a PC with the option to connect a monitor and peripherals. The Series 7 will also be usable with a digital pen as well as normal finger touch input.
Samsung said, "The Samsung Slate PC Series-7 provides ready-to-go entertainment at your fingertips due to its Samsung FastStart boot-up technology. The touch-launcher allows easy selection of applications including Twitter, Facebook, movies, weather and maps."
The firm has not yet released any information on pricing or availability for the Series 7 Slate PC. µ
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Comparable to the on-sale-now Asus Eee Slate EP121 - which is pretty expensive.
Currently I use an HP TouchSmart TM2-1010EA, which has a similar grown-up specification, twice the weight, and a keyboard - and the stylus input waves around , on the edges, probably because of interference from the rest of the PC's electronics. I'd hope for a truly dedicated tablet to avoid that effect: the TouchSmart is convertible. I'm also considering some kind of spacer, such as plastic bottle tops with mounting tape, to prop the Touchsmart screen slightly apart from the keyboard underneath it, a centimetre or so apart, on the non-hinge side, to see if that fixes it.