With Windows 7 on the horizon,
multi-touch support in tow, people are suddenly interested in tablets all over again; a form factor that didn't quite revolutionize portable computing as envisioned by an enthusiastic Bill Gates showing that first prototype way back in 2001. And with an
Apple event just weeks away (presumably), fanboys of both persuasions seem convinced that tablets are once more the future of mobile computing. Manufacturers are
certainly on board. Case in point: Kohjinsha, that just announced its EX6 convertible tablet with 1366x768 pixels slathered across a 11.6-inch LED-backlit
capacitive resistive touchscreen. Inside you'll find a 1.6GHz Atom N270 and 945GSE chipset, up to 2GB of memory and 160GB of disk, 802.11n WiFi, gigabit Ethernet, a pair of front and back-facing cameras, 2600mAh battery, 2x USB, and slots for SDHC/microSDHC, ExpressCard 34 cards, and even DVDs. Unfortunately, it'll be shipped with XP when it hits retail at the end of this month for ¥59,800 (about $635) -- something we expect you'll rectify on
October 22nd. As to whether it'll support multi-touch under Win7, well, anybody see the
appropriate sticker?
posted August 20th 2009 3:36AM
That is a tiny battery - it's the same as what's in my phone.
Make it $425 and I'm in.
Anybody get their Touch Book yet?
I don't see it more worth buying than HP's TX series
about the same price, body size, and both with a built-in optical drive
EX comes with a worthless single core atom while TX provides like 3 times better performance as it's got a more than 2GHz dual core processor and a much better graphics card
the only thing noticeably better than TX is the battery life
but if you swap the weight with better battery life on TX, a larger battery will give you up to a good 4hour use time too
I own an HP TX laptop, and the main problem they have is heat. The older ones with the Geforce 6150 have huge and widespread problems, and the newer ones with Radeon chipsets still have some overheating issues. Mine is fine (Geforce) but my friend with the same laptop purchased from the same store has had his wifi die on him because the thing overheated, and another friend with the newer Radeon chipset is also having issues with overheating. They are pretty good machines when they work well, but if they don't work then it's a pain in the ass. I've been running mine at a maximum of 85% of the clock speed to keep the thing from melting, but most of the time I run at around 50-60% to keep the heat bearable but it becomes really slow. HP really poorly engineered these laptops. That said, I would still rather get a TX over this, because a single core CPU is even worse.
Multitouch on a resistive screen?
I think not!
I think so!
http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/19/stantums-mind-blowing-multitouch-interface-on-video/
You don't think much.
ed.: I gave you a +1 because technically, you're right as it's possible. Being realistic however, I doubt Kohjinsha is going to implement this in this thing.
On small stuff like phones and cameras where real estate is worth more than plutonium on the black market touch screens make sense, at least to me, but once you get a keyboard and mouse, I lose interest and just seems gimicky to me.
Ofcourse, other end of the specturm, stuff like Microsoft Surface, huge screens/table kind of stuff, now that also appeals to me in touch sensitive
If you click through all the links you'll find that it's $835 instead of $635
Sill a nice tablet just can't spend $835 on a netbook atom processor. Then $90 to ship it from Korea
i hate the atom
can i have a real processor please??
They make regular tablet PCs not much bigger than this. Of course they also cost a lot more (the whole point to Atom, besides battery savings, is that it's practically dirt cheap).
It's so nice, i don't think there is a larger touch screen tablet available for that price, and the interconnectivity features are cool. But what's with the cpu? I need something on which i can bring a portable copy of my dev environment and i'm not going to revert to a lousy 32bit just to be able to go portable.
Still, imagine swapping an ssd into this thingie...