Dell has dropped the starting price of its 10 inch Windows 8 tablet. The Dell Latitude 10 recently went on sale for $649 and up, but now the starting price for a 64GB tablet is $599 and soon Dell will offer a $499 model with 32GB of storage. In order to trim the price, Dell did have to leave out…
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You can play casual games like Angry Birds or Cut the Rope on pretty much any Windows 8 or Windows RT tablet. But you can play hard-core PC games on the new Razer Edge. It’s a 10 inch Windows 8 tablet with an Ivy Bridge processor, NVIDIA GeForce graphics, and a starting price of $999. If the Edge looks familiar,…
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I expect to see a lot of 4K (or UltraHD) televisions at the Consumer Electronics Show this week. What I wasn’t expecting to see were tablets with 3840 x 2160 displays. But that’s what Samsung just introduced. The device is a 20 inch Windows 8 tablet with a touchscreen display and a digital pen for more precise input. Engadget reports…
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The Vizio Tablet PC is an 11.6 inch Windows 8 slate with a 1 GHz AMD Z-60 “Hondo” processor. That’s a low power chip designed to offer long battery life and support for HD video thanks to Radeon HD graphics. While Intel’s Clover Trail chip has proven more popular with tablet makers in recent months, I had a chance to…
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Gigabyte has been making notebook/tablet hybrids for years. But most of the company’s convertible tablets have featured screens which fold down over the keyboard so you can use the notebook like a tablet. The Gigabyte S1185 is something different: an 11.6 inch Windows 8 tablet with a detachable keyboard base. We’ve seen this kind of design from plenty of other…
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HP doesn’t have a huge presence at CES this year, though they do have a few new laptops to boast about. The Sleekbook brand is HP’s code for an ultrabook-esque laptop that doesn’t quite fit the strict definition of ultrabooks. Usually this means that the machine is a bit too thick or has a spinning hard drive instead of an…
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Lenovo’s latest IdeaCentre computer looks a bit like an all-in-one desktop PC with a touchscreen display. But the Lenovo IdeaCentre Horizon Table PC has another trick up its sleeve: It’s designed to be laid flat on any surface for use as a tabletop computer. In table mode you can play multi-player games, run Android apps, or do… whatever else it…
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The HP Envy X2 is a Windows 8 tablet with an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display, an Intel Atom Clover Trail processor, 2GB of RAM and 64GB of storage. It also comes with a keyboard docking station that gives you the choice of using the Envy X2 as a notebook or as a standalone tablet. HP has been…
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Korean electronics maker LG’s latest tablet has an 11.6 inch display, Windows 8 software, and a slide-out keyboard that lets you use the computer like a notebook. It’s called the LG Tab-Book H160, and while LG plans to show it off at CES in January, you can already have one shipped from South Korea to the US… if you’ve got…
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The Kupa X15 is a Windows 8 tablet that packs some seriously high-end features. First shown off a few months ago as the Kupa UltraNote, the 10 inch tablet is now ready to go. Kupa is a niche product maker, and there’s currently no “buy” button on the company’s website, but according to Engadget you can shoot the folks at…
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Asus has been offering affordable portable notebooks for a while. The company practically invented the netbook by introducing the first Eee PC mini-laptop in 2007. Now that netbooks are out of fashion, Asus is taking a few different approaches to the affordable portable space. Asus is one of the biggest players in the Android tablet space. The company recently introduced…
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The MSI S20 is an ultrabook which loos like a kind of chunky tablet… until you slide out the keyboard from under the screen. Then it looks like a notebook with a screen locked in place at a roughly 45 degree angle. MSI started showing off the S20 Slider this summer, and now it’s available for pre-order from ExcaliberPC for $1099….
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Windows 8 tablets with low-power Intel Atom Z2760 Clover Trail processors are starting to hit the streets. You can pick up an Acer Iconia Tab W510 for $550 or a Samsung Ativ Smart PC for $600, and HP and Lenovo plan to launch Clover Trail-based tablets in the coming weeks. Unlike Windows RT tablets with ARM-based processors, these devices can run all…
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The HP ElitePad 900 is a Windows 8 tablet aimed at business and enterprise. It’s expected to ship in January, but HP is now taking pre-orders for this tablet for $649 and up. The starting price gets you a tablet with a 10.1 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel display and an active digitizer, an Intel Atom Z2760 Clover Trail processor,…
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The Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2 is a Windows 8 tablet with a 10.1 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display, an Intel Atom Z2760 Clover Trail processor, 2GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage. After showing off the tablet for the past few months, Lenovo is now taking orders for the ThinkPad Tablet 2 for $649 and up, although estimated ship…
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