Is this the Tablet We've Been Waiting For?

[Michelle Mastin]

You've got some mixed specs there. You're talking about the new slate tablet PC that samsung just announced at IFA, but your copy/paste specs and Samsung news links point back to the slider they showed off at CES. The Slider has netbook guts and has been MIA since CES. The new Slate is packing a core i5 and Wacom. The liliputing link goes to the correct tablet.

More links, with videos, are available here:
http://www.tabletpcbuzz.com/content....PC-with-WACOM!

[negative1]

thanks for the catch..
updated.. hopefully samsung will update their site.

later
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[Michelle Mastin]

Yeah, I dug all over Samsung's site looking for the official news before I did the write up for the homepage, but it seems they haven't posted official news yet. I've contacted their PR folks too, but I guess they're swamped with IFA duties right now.

Hopefully they'll be willing to send me a review unit. :)

[negative1]

Yeah, I dug all over Samsung's site looking for the official news before I did the write up for the homepage, but it seems they haven't posted official news yet. I've contacted their PR folks too, but I guess they're swamped with IFA duties right now.

Hopefully they'll be willing to send me a review unit. :)

cool, keep us posted..
it's getting good buzz:
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http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b...-slate-pc.aspx


lot's of non-windows tablet disbelievers out there..

later
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[kraski]

Hi, Ethan. I use a tablet-pc version of the Asus Eee series of netbooks. Yes there are a lot of Win programs that assume mouse & keyboard input. But it doesn't take much exploring to find software that will recognize finger or pen as the expected mouse pointer for navigation. And there's OneNote & Evernote for pen/finger note input. In fact, Evernote has become my alltime favorite for lots of things. It runs on PC, Mac, just about any smartphone you can think of & can take keyboard, finger or pen input. Plus there are browser extensions to import web data right into Evernote.

But back to the subject. I chose the tablet-pc I did because it can be used as a netbook or the screen can fold down over the keyboard to work as a tablet and it closes like a normal netbook to protect the screen. Win7 premium supports both finger and stylus tablet input without having to replace electronics (pen) at some point in the future. At the time, it was the only one I found that wasn't a tablet with add-on keyboard. There are others, now. Some possibly better than what I have. And I decided on Win7 just because Windows had a huge software library available, much of it free, long before iOS and Android even existed -- most of which work perfectly well in offline mode, too. Yes I'm old enough to know that from personal experience. Anyway, do a little exploring before you take the plunge. There are good options on any of the platforms. Find what combinations work best for you.

[kraski]

Hi, docg! I'm with you on being thinner & having a longer life battery. But I like the fact that my Asus uses a stylus. No electronic pen to replace & I can use the back end of any number of ink pens or stylus/pen combos to work in tablet mode. Or, if I'm really desperate, my finger -- which doesn't require charging. I can use the same things I use on my touchscreen phone. Maybe it's me, but I start to balk at having to carry a whole different mini-set of accessories for each device I have. I like K.I.S.S. -- simplicity saves me a lot of frustration.

[Jonny Dark]

IBM had this tablet thing figured out years ago...

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:X41_Tablet

The only thing that has improved is battery life.

[docg]

Well, well I finally nagged you into posting here again? Hurrah Welcome! Too bad I didn't see your post until someone posted here again. So hearty welcome and thanks to you as well. :)

Hi, docg! I'm with you on being thinner & having a longer life battery. But I like the fact that my Asus uses a stylus. No electronic pen to replace & I can use the back end of any number of ink pens or stylus/pen combos to work in tablet mode. Or, if I'm really desperate, my finger -- which doesn't require charging. I can use the same things I use on my touchscreen phone. Maybe it's me, but I start to balk at having to carry a whole different mini-set of accessories for each device I have. I like K.I.S.S. -- simplicity saves me a lot of frustration.

[kraski]

Well, well I finally nagged you into posting here again? Hurrah Welcome! Too bad I didn't see your post until someone posted here again. So hearty welcome and thanks to you as well. :)

If I can learn more about "tabletting", all the better. I was going to try a Kindle Fire, too, but my present employer decided to switch me to commission only, with a terrible lead database. So, till something more stable than this job starts filling my pockets, it's tablet-pc only.