The CTL 2goPad may be one of the best budget Windows 7 slate PCs on the market today. It hits a sweet spot between features and price, thanks to its relatively affordable $549 price tag. One of the tablets’ closest competitors is probably the Netbook Navigator Nav9 slate, which costs $699 and up if you want a Windows 7 version.Yet…

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Well, this is kind of sad… as I just mentioned, my CTL 2goPad review will be coming any day now, but while it’s definitely a better Windows tablet than some I’ve tried, it’s still just not that much fun to use. Now it looks like another Windows slate is getting similar reviews. GottaBeMobile’s Warner Crocker has posted a detailed look…

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I probably won’t have my full review of the CTL 2goPad ready for another few days, but apparently plenty of people weren’t waiting for my review to pull the trigger and purchase this $499 slate PC with a 10 inch capacitive display. CTL says the company sold out of the 2goPad the day after it started taking orders last week….

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The Netbook Navigator Nav9 slate PC is one of the first Windows 7 slates aimed at the growing tablet market. While companies have been pumping out Windows tablets for the better part of a decade, most older tablets have carried high price tags and built-in keyboards, allowing you to use the computers as tablets or laptops. The Nav9 looks a…

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The Netbook Navigator Nav9 is a slate PC with an x86 processor, a solid state disk, and an 8.9 inch touchscreen display. It’s kind of what you would get if you took a netbook, chopped off the keyboard, stuffed all the important components behind the display, and added a touchscreen. The folks at Netbook Navigator sent me a demo unit…

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We’ve seen a lot of companies demonstrate tablet-style devices running Windows 7 over the last few months. While there are still few of these keyboardless wonders available for purchase in the US, they seem to be all the rag among no-name companies in China. But if you’ve been a bit underwhelmed by many of the slates we’ve seen to date…

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HP is working on a slate PC with an 8.9 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display and a 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z530 processor. We’ve known that much for ages. What we haven’t really known is how the Windows 7 tablet will stack up against the competition, because all we’ve seen to date is the information HP wants us to see….

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Like virtually every other PC vendor on the planet, the folks at CTL are preparing to launch a tablet this summer. But there are a few reasons this one might actually be worth checking out. First, CTL has been working with Intel’s Classmate PC netbook reference design for the past few years. That includes several touchscreen laptops with displays that…

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HP wants you to remember that they’ve got a slate PC coming out soon too… and it can do some things that the Apple iPad can’t. No, it can’t whip people up into enough of a frenzy for HP to sell 300,000 on launch day — at least I don’t think it can. But it will let you take pictures…

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[/caption] Samsung officials say the company will be ready to launch a new slate PC in the second half of 2010. APC Magazine reports that the computer will have a “PC-grade” processor. There’s no information about exactly what that CPU will be, or what OS the tablet will run. But it sounds like Samsung is convinced that the iPad has…

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When the folks at Netbook Navigator first asked me to write about the company’s new 9 inch tablet PC I had a hard time getting past the high price tag of nearly $1200. But that price was for an early model that packed 3G capabilities and was intended for early adopters. Now Netbook Navigator has updated the pricing for the…

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