Tablet Computers and Hybrids – Latest Trends in Mobile Internet Devices
Tablets are the next new thing to connect to the Internet apparently with buzz generated by the rumours that Apple will announce a tablet product at this end of this month, possibly on the 26 or 27 January and scheduled to be on the market in March.
Not one of the details has been officially confirmed. Best guess is that the Apple tablet will have a 10-11” touchscreen, keyboard, wireless connectivity and will retail for under $1000.
The Apple tablet is the most talked about but the coolest gadget announcement at CES was the Lenovo Ideapad U1 Hybrid.
The Lenovo Ideapad U1 Hybrid is two computers in one (or 3 maybe?). It works as a laptop but the screen is detachable and morphs into a tablet. When the screen is detached the keyboard can then be attached to another display. It really is two separate computers because each component when working separately runs with different processors and operating systems.
When working as a laptop with both halves together it runs on Windows 7 Home Premium on an Intel Core 2 Duo SU processor. When you separate them, the tablet runs on a customized version of Linux and a Qualcomm ARM Snapdragon processor. The tablet also has embedded 3G and 16GB of solid state memory.
It looks fantastic and is a very clever idea. How successful it will be remains to be seem. The launch date is set for June and the price is around a thousand US dollars.
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