There's a veritable army of Tablet PC bloggers attending the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week
and the news has been coming out fast and furious. Here are a few highlights if, like me, you've been momentarily
distracted by other stuff.- OQO announced a new configuration of their tiny handheld PC that runs the
Tablet PC OS. James Kendrick is all
over this story, of course.
- Toshiba will be releasing a new Tablet PC - the M400 - as a refresh to the somewhat long-in-the-tooth M200 model. While it has much goodness to get excited about including Dual Core processor, choice of display resolution (1400 x 1050 or 1024 x 768), a removable CD / DVD (the bay supports an extra hard drive, not a battery), and support for a thin extended battery on the bottom of the Tablet there's some bad news as well. Toshiba has somehow decided that on the eve of the most demanding OS yet from Microsoft yet, that they will switch from the Nvidia dedicated graphics card offered in the current M200 to the Intel GM945 integrated chipset. They claim it's due to the inclusion of the optical drive. Sounds like some penny-wise thinking to me and, like Rob Bushway who's been all over this news, I think it will come back to bite them. Rob has some great side-by-side shots of the M400 alongside his Thinkpad X41 Tablet.
- A prototype of a new Motion 12" slate that is both penabled and touch screen (requires Vista) - also reported by Rob.
- James also has the scoop on the DualCor cPC dvice that is both a Tablet PC and a Windows Mobile device in a very sweet, very small package.
- The Acer C200 (the Tablet PC with the funky sliding screen) seems to be pretty popular.
- No news yet from the Tablet PC meetup at the Aladdin orchestrated by Lora Heiny but I'm sure much fun was had by all who made it.
