NEC's new 12- and 15-inch touchscreen PCs are all screen, Atom-powered

These look to be aimed directly at enterprises and other no-frills applications, but we're still intrigued these new all-in-one touchscreen PCs from NEC. With Atom under the hood, 512MB or 1GB of RAM and a 80GB hard drive, you can pick between the 12-inch 12PNC-W2/B2 (white or black) or the 15PNC-W2/B2 (same), you won't be able to walk away with one of these tablet-style, but it sounds like the power draw will be akin to a laptop. The PNCs run XP Embedded or Vista Business for Embedded. No word on price.

[yo_atkins @ Aug 28th 2008 9:55AM]

Coulda used an old Athlon 64 proc to make it cheaper, faster. Idiots.

[Pumping_Iron @ Aug 28th 2008 10:16AM]

i agree about faster...BUT...more heat....and withdraws more power i guess....

[OddManOut @ Aug 28th 2008 2:40PM]

"...more heat....and withdraws more power i guess...."

Some recent tests seem to indicate otherwise.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/17/athlon-64-2000-at-8-watts-outperforms-draws-less-energy-than-a/

But of course, the lab is the lab, the real world is the real world, and rarely the twain do meet...

[Jason @ Aug 28th 2008 12:07PM]

Yeah I think the point here is to minimize the operating cost of keeping 20 of these turned on for 16-24 hrs a day at your local Stuff Mart.

[Ricksta @ Aug 28th 2008 10:05AM]

Give me a 15" with XP and 160 gb hdd for $600 please.

[johnnyg0 @ Aug 28th 2008 11:36AM]

Gimme gimme gimme!!.. is that all that you people say?

I want, therefore, I should get :)

[Pumping_Iron @ Aug 28th 2008 10:37AM]

oooh...i want one !

[RAQ @ Aug 28th 2008 11:09AM]

I'm really liking the sound of the 12" version, would have preffered it if it was 10". If it has a decent cell battery which gives more than 5 hours I would really consider picking one of these up

[Brevi @ Aug 28th 2008 11:10AM]

Uh...I want an 12 inch for the kitchen, also for the toilet. But PLEASE make it cheap and OS an option!!

[Jason @ Aug 28th 2008 12:17PM]

Well it's imbedded, so...be ready to get out your static-free strap.

[lukasz @ Aug 28th 2008 11:38AM]

10inch would be better for sure. I so want one. especially for school and if it can play games it would be awesome (older RTS games of course like Red Alert or good old Warcraft 2)

[zmjjmz @ Aug 28th 2008 11:42AM]

I want one with Ubuntu NetBook Remix.

[Bob Brown @ Aug 28th 2008 11:51AM]

We are deploying kiosks at work. Currently we are using $350 touchscreens with old desktops as staff get their machines replaced.

These tablets would be great. We could just mount them without the other bulk, as long as the price is good.

[Skyride @ Aug 28th 2008 12:14PM]

I personally reckon you should stick with the PC + touchscreen approach. Much more reliable. Alot easier to maintain from a hardware aspect too. Just get some low end dell vostro's or Lenovo thinkcentres or similar desktop PC's.

[Jason @ Aug 28th 2008 12:18PM]

"you won't be able to walk away with one of these tablet-style..."

[Onetrack @ Aug 28th 2008 12:11PM]

Excellent.. OSX touch screens.

[lukas88 @ Aug 28th 2008 12:29PM]

I will be buying one of these. Mark my words. Mark them!

[Jason @ Aug 28th 2008 5:07PM]

I marked them down.

[Miranda Kali @ Aug 28th 2008 12:33PM]

Wow..this exactly (well, all most) what I've wanted. A small slate PC with decent capacity.
....Then I converted the Yen. It's around $2200. Ouch.

Back to hoping for a revamp of the Newton (or a large iPhone with more than 80 gigs).

[ssrat_ @ Aug 29th 2008 3:22PM]

This is something that LOOKS good for an Ebook reader, the price if true just kills it.
How Hard is it to make a touchscreen, about 8"-10" color widesceen,1g memory and 80G+ HD, with wireless, optional place to add GPS + a couple other areas.

Create a leather case for it with a cushion for the screen and do it for under $500 and I wold be there like a shot

[SlappyWag @ Aug 28th 2008 2:02PM]

Just add two white knobs, and you have yourself a full-fledged Etch-A-Sketch.

[phanbouy @ Aug 28th 2008 3:23PM]

or the prez and VP, depending on how you interpret...

[rabidfurball @ Aug 28th 2008 7:44PM]

I wish it had magnets so i could stick it to the fridge....

[NewJohnny @ Aug 28th 2008 8:45PM]

Why can't these just be a screen with a wireless vga connection? No hard drive or memory needed and it would be about $100 or less.