TabletKiosk's Sahara i440D Slate PC now shipping

Hopefully you haven't forgotten all about TabletKiosk's Sahara i440D Slate PC, because the time has finally come to lay down your hard-earned coin and snag one for yourself. Dubbed the first slate tablet PC with "dual pen and touchscreen input," the i440D can be ordered with Windows XP or Vista, and features a wide array of ports including PCMCIA, eSATA, USB 2.0, and FireWire. Additionally, you'll find a biometric fingerprint reader, an Intel Core Duo LV processor, and options for up to 4GB of DDR2 RAM and a 160GB SATA hard drive. The base configuration starts at $2,295, and just in case it somehow escaped you earlier, it is indeed shipping right away.

[Mike Klein @ Jul 31st 2007 1:24PM]

I bought a Fujitsu ST5111 tablet pc and am extremely happy with my purchase.

For 75% of my day I'm banging on the 'traditional' desktop/laptop and for the other 25% (design, browsing, visio, etc.) I use the tablet.

Outdoor display on ST5111 means I can be where I want (outdoor w/margi or cigar), etc...instead of a clammy/dark little workspace.

The software on the tablet pcs is QUITE impressive I must say. Cursive handwriting recognition is near 95-98%...so predictive it's scary man.

It has a real cpu/etc. so it's not like a semi-crippled umpc experience or totally crippled ppc/pda experience.

Bought refurbished from eBay for $1300...not bad given new units are $2600 and I got extra extended batteries, etc.

Other tablet pc software (OneNote, Journal, ...) is phenomenal.

I can take photos on my 8525 and upon sync'g to my tablet pc can then search the graphics and handwriting as text...and it works!

Finally this crap I've been spending money on all these years is really becoming useful (i.e. I'm no longer the tool...the computer is!).

[cartoonmonkey @ Jul 31st 2007 4:09PM]

This is my next slate! Has a glass screen that won't easily scratch. Wacom digitizer / pen, AND a touch screen. MULTI-touch, I might add. Evidently tabletkiosk has a multi-touch capable transparent on screen keyboard for the device to download that shows off this feature. Woot! Lemur anyone? Can't wait to see more multitouch applications / drivers for XP. If you're a cartoonist or animator, you're going to want this tablet.