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Tablet PCs Enter Reality

Posted by timothy on from the what-about-antaur dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It looks like Tablet PCs are finally hitting real-world budgets. Averatec released a Tablet PC with an AMD Athlon XP-M 2200+ processor and will be at Costco and Staples for $1349. Here is a link to a photo overview where you can see how the pen snaps into the LCD area when not in use, what the touchpad looks like, and quite a few other pictures." Element Computer seems to have radically changed their business model -- I had hoped they'd succeed with their $999 VIA-based tablet.

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  1. Gateway by halo1982 · · Score: 2, Informative

    While the Averatec is priced right, for the extra cash I rather have one of Gateway's line of Tablet PCs. They're about $400 more, but you get the Gateway name and warranty (although I'm not quite sure how much that is worth these days). Also they use Pentium Ms which have better battery life over the XP-Ms. However if you're on a budget, this system looks nice.

    1. Re:Gateway by Galvatron · · Score: 2, Informative

      Or you could just order them directly from Motion Computing, since that's where Gateway gets them from. It was about $100 cheaper that way back when I bought mine, and I've been quite happy with it.

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  2. Or just go to the company's website by Grand · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.averatec.com/notebooks/C3500.htm

  3. Slashdotted... by PaintyThePirate · · Score: 4, Informative

    The site is already slashdotted, but I assume it is this tablet that was announced a few months ago. It's nice to see that companies are already using AMD's 1.35v Mobile Athlons.

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  4. Picture by Tovaris · · Score: 2, Informative

    Try: http://www.shipitforyou.com/cgi-bin/sgin0105.exe?U ID=2004071911394006&T1=S850+1043&FNM=24
    for a picture and specs.

  5. Re:Why I own a tabletPC by srenker · · Score: 2, Informative
    I concur. My only complaint about the Tablet PC was that the handwriting recognition was awkward, but there is a completely new recognizer in SP2 (I'm running RC2) that makes it so much easier to correct occasional mistakes in recognition.

    I have an HP TC1100 from Overstock.com (this is the second generation with real Centrino and the pressure sensitive Wacom pen that doesn't need batteries). Being a refurb brought the price down into the reasonable range.

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