Intel shows 8.9" Mobile Entertainment PC slate at WinHEC
During the Industry Viewpoint: Realizing Intel's 2006 Mobile Platform Vision WinHEC session, Intel showed off a fully functional demonstration version of future slates. Here are my notes from that session:
Mobile EPC Model
* Ship in 2006 as an "On-the-Go Entertainment PC"
* Specs
8.9" wide screen
2.5 lbs
Fanless design
Touch screen with hand-held controls
EL Panel (Electroluminescence)
Bluetooth wireless technology
Integrated popout camera
WLAN
GPS Navigation System
Detachable DVD Drive
Fingerprint sensor
This example has a red case
* This PC supports full media center experience - Detachable DVD on the back
* Full blown Sonoma platform
* Usages
On-the-Go:
Synch-and-Go - watch movies, play games, and listen to music through car stereo
Outside In - access music, photos, and personal media on your home network while away
LBS Points of interest - find restaurants, city guides, and directions
Share media - show pictures, stream video through friend's digital media adaptor
In the home:
Download media from home devices
Secondary PC
* How On-the-go digital entertainment works - synch-n-go demo
* Plug in for Media Center Edition to allow to take content on the road
* Scan local home network to find UPnP server installed
thats a small tabletPC, its suppose to be $500-800 dollars. if that is the price i can see this competing with high end pdas.
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If it's running the TabletPC OS then the keyboard is largely irrelevant. I seldom use my keyboard on my Tablet because handwriting recognition is excellent and so natural. I'm faster with a keyboard but it's more comfortable to write (which is how I'm making this post right now, BTW).
Maybe the rumors about (Windows Mobile and Palm OS) PDAs dying out will be true, but only because there will be a tablet/PDA that runs regular Windows!
I always wanted a PDA that runs a regular OS, so I'm looking forward to it. I wonder what that "long battery life" really means. I sure hope it's something like 6 hours or more.
I also wonder if it has that so well known and useful "instant boot" feature.
Oh, and does it use a regular 2.5" laptop hard drive or a slower and harder to find 1.8", or something totally different?
I sure hope that it's as good as it seems.
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If I was VirtualBox, I could load my virtualization module into Hannah and boot up another kernel in the same address space.
I was checking out the OQO, but the price is soooo steep!! I mean it's cool, a full version of Windows XP in something a little bigger than an Axim, but $2000? $500-$800 is more like it. ;)
The tablet PC shown doesn't have full XP capabilities, does it? It says "and do all that tablet PC’s can do despite its small size". Seems to me it's a Tablet PC OS (please correct me if I'm wrong)?
I guess I would just never use the tiny, tiny keyboard on it. Maybe tapping it with the stylus is a good solution? I'll call Bill and let you guys know. :)
Besides these remarks the thing looks utterly cool....!! WOW, a desktop in your pocket!:approve: I've tried it with my current minitower desktop but it looked kinda strange..
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Maybe the rumors about (Windows Mobile and Palm OS) PDAs dying out will be true, but only because there will be a tablet/PDA that runs regular Windows!
I always wanted a PDA that runs a regular OS, so I'm looking forward to it. I wonder what that "long battery life" really means. I sure hope it's something like 6 hours or more.
I also wonder if it has that so well known and useful "instant boot" feature.
Oh, and does it use a regular 2.5" laptop hard drive or a slower and harder to find 1.8", or something totally different?
I sure hope that it's as good as it seems.
no telling that is just a prototype, if even that i think it might just be a mockup. or at least most of the small models i have seen were just mockups.
i figure if they can put a ULV 1.2ghz centrino in it which are relativly cheap i think they can get it down to 500 or 600 dollars, that would be great for students who take notes in class, and have there textbooks as ebooks.
Yes, this was posted way back during WinHEC, and the prototype design is for it to run Tablet PC Edition, but no manufacturers have announced plans yet. Probably won't be ready until the Longhorn version
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this is a tablet pc scrinked. it runs windows xp tablet edition.
i always thought that the pda as we know it now would die out. but i tought that it would morph into handtops and the ultra compact tablet pc type devices. im starting to think that that isnt happening. what im thinking now is that the pda produced technology that is contributing to technologies in handtops and ultra compact tablet pcs. if the pda does die out, you have to admit PDAs will always rule.
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