Samsung has released at least half a dozen Android tablets in the last year or so, but the Series 7 Slate is something different. It’s full-fledged Windows computer with a high resolution 11.6 inch display, a powerful Intel Core i5 processor, and support for finger or digital pen input. It’s likely that more tablet computers have hit the streets in…

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The Samsung Series 7 Slate PC is a tablet with an 11.6 inch display and an Intel Core i5 processor. It has 4GB of RAM, a solid state disk, and ships with Windows 7. But the tablet has all the hardware you’d need to run a variety of operating systems including many Linux distributions or even OS X. YouTube member…

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The Samsung Series 7 Slate PC is a tablet computer with an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display and support for both finger input and pressure-sensitive input using a digital pen. That’s because it has both a capacitive, multitouch display and a Wacom active digitizer. The tablet also has a relatively powerful Intel Core i5-2467M processor, 4GB of DDR3…

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TechEd 2011 New Zealand is in full swing, and Microsoft looks to be playing a little bit of show-and-tell with the next generation of Windows and the devices that will run it. Among the devices shown was an unnamed quad-core Windows tablet. What else is known about the slate? Not much, other than that Microsoft’s Jeff Johnson stated that the…

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Earlier this year a company called NoteSlate generated quite a bit of buzz with the promise of an inexpensive tablet designed for taking handwritten notes. The idea was that for $99 you’d get a slate with a two-tone display (black and white, red and black, or another combination), and a stylus. The device would have excellent battery life, a light…

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Fujitsu recently introduced a 10 inch Windows tablet computer with a pull-out keyboard. But DigiTimes suggests the Fujitsu LifeBook TH40/D (and the Fujitsu Stylistc Q550 slate) are aimed at the enterprise market while a second slate set to launch later this year will be targeted at consumers. According to DigiTimes the new model will be a 7 inch tablet running Google…

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Asus currently offers a 10 inch tablet running Android 3.0 called the Eee Pad Transformer, and a 12 inch tablet running Windows 7 Home Premium called the Eee Slate EP121. It looks like the company’s Android tablet should soon receive an update bringing Android 3.1, while the Windows tablet will get a new sibling called the Eee Slate B121 which…

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Gigabyte unveiled a new 10 inch Windows slate computer during CES earlier this month. But I didn’t get a chance to catch up with the folks at Gigabyte at the show. Fortunately Sascha from Netbook News managed to stop by the Gigabyte offices in Taipei recently, and he’s posted a hands-on video of the new Gigabyte S1080 tablet. The S1080…

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I’ll be honest. I have no idea why unboxing videos are so popular. But for some reason people love to see new gadgets taken out of a box for the first time, and so to help fill that demand, I’ve posted an unboxing video for almost every product I’ve reviewed since the Asus Eee PC 701. Since I’m not entirely…

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Gigabyte has been making Intel Atom powered convertible Windows tablets for a few years, but now the company has developed a model that drops the physical keyboard. The Gigabyte S1080 features a 10.1 inch display, an Intel Atom N550 processor, and Windows 7 operating syste, The computer weighs in at just under 2 pounds, and packs a 1024 x 600…

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LG’s official unveiling of the G-Slate tablet running Android Honeycomb won’t happen until tomorrow, but they’ve decided to jump the gun and offer up a few scant details. Apart from a bit of flowery language about streamlining tasks, enhancing entertainment, and knocking your socks off with blazing fast wireless speeds, LG has announced that the G-Slate will be launching on…

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Microsoft’s Ben Rudolph was lucky enough to score some hands-on time with the ASUS EP121 tablet prior to CES, and he’s posted his experience from the past fortnight over at the Windows Experience Blog.The EP121 sports packs some pretty serious hardware into its 2/3 inch frame: and Intel Core i5 CPU, 4GB of RAM, a 64GB SSD, and . Its…

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