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Pacebook Tablet PC

Posted by michael on from the etch-a-sketch dept.

IAmBlakeM writes "Looks like a new PC design has been released by the guys at PaceBlade. Reviewed at Anandtech, the new PaceBlade, touted as a 3in1 PC, features a Transmeta Crusoe TM5600 CPU at 600Mhz, up to 256MB of RAM, a 12.1" XGA LCD that can do 1024x768, and an "any key". Always nice to see some new designs and technology throwing curves at the norms."

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  1. new PC design has been released. by zander · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually; the Pacebook has been announced 1 1/2 years ago and released at the last Cebit. I have been trying to get my hands on one for all this time, but unfortunately they still don't sell to us Euros :(

    1. Re:new PC design has been released. by Xoro · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Yeah, I was watching them forever, too. They actually just started selling here (US), after months and months of "Coming Soon". Since the original specs called for a processor at 1GHz, I think they got trapped in that whole TMTA-TSMC debacle of last year.

      To be honest, it took them so long that my enthusiasm for the product waned quite a lot. It's released at the price they said 1.5 years ago and the specs have actually gone down since then (at least the processor). That just doesn't seem right in the computer industry.

      What I'd like to see now is a standard ultralight notebook with the two-hinge design replaced by a single central hinge that can rotate 180 degrees. Flip it over, it's a webpad, flip it back it's a notebook. You could carry it on your rounds as a webpad and sit down and type whereever you want -- no extra keyboard piece to carry around and walk off without it. Plus, at least on early models, the Paceblade's wireless keyboard was prone to crosstalk if several were in the same room, and who needs that.

      Now I jut have to wait for someone to make it. Apple? Dell? Anyone?

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  2. The anykey definition from compaqs site:p by sat985 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    remember reading it awhile back, was posted on a forum. 'when instructed to hit any key to continue' hit any key on the keyboard. or somthing to that effect. this new 'any key' will probably confuse some of those aol kiddies LOL

  3. Wonder why they didn't wait for XP Tablet edition by IDIIAMOTS · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I am curious why they decided to ship on top of Windows XP Home and rely on Office XP
    for handwriting recognition instead of waiting another few months for the release of
    Windows XP Tablet PC Edition (there's a mouthful).

    I attended a presentation on the Microsoft TabletPC's a few months back and the handwriting
    recognition in the OS was by far the most accurate I had seen to date on CE or Palm devices.
    On top of that, with the WinXP TPCE, the handwriting recognition support is exposed via a set
    of APIs and could be bolted onto any existing app. Not sure what the pricing for new OS will be,
    but it seems like a much better way to go than taking dependency on Office and after $400 still not
    being able to use pen input in other apps.