DigitalRise X9 tablet has Atom, multitouch, $780 price tag
By Donald Melanson 
posted January 14th 2010 9:45PM
posted January 14th 2010 9:45PM
This one doesn't seem to have quite made it to CES, but DigitalRise's new X9 tablet is now available to order, and it packs just enough familiar features to fit right in with the pack. That includes a 10.2-inch multitouch display, an Atom N270 processor, 2GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, a 1.3-megapixel webcam, built-in 3G, GPS and WiFi, and Windows 7 for an operating system. Of course, availability is apparently limited to import shops at the moment, and this one doesn't exactly come cheap, with it running a hefty $780 -- although that is a $220 discount off its $1,000 list price.
@james23
yes, yes it will...
/brainwashing completed!
@james23 Care to change your view?
I'd say put a Tegra 2 in it and use Winmo 6.6 until Winmo 7 comes out, give it enough juice to last the day, and you've got a hit. Of course A-Gps, accelerometer, wi-fi, compass, support for 1080p, 3g on cdma and gms for good measure. I'd slap down $800 for that.
BTW, nice form factor.
2kg weight is too much - i would not by tablet heavier than 500-600 grams - everything else is less important. There are netbooks under 1kg weight and tablet must be lighter than that...
Basically, this is the iSlate in it's basic forms... But Apple prepared for that and probably has a dozen "EXTRA" features.
I'm not saying this is Apple's design. But it's exactly what we all envisioned as a basic iSlate.
Do any of these manufacturers really think these tablets are going to take off? Do they not get that the success relies just as much on software as it does on hardware? Or perhaps they're just making the hardware and hopping some decent software will show up?
wonder why all the apple fanboiz think their slate is gonna be sooo much better than these other ones..
@swastyka
too bad none of you know that the swastika is an ancient, 2000-4000 year old symbol depicting the sun-god diety, the giver of life, a symbol of our planet's movement.
Don't get it. If I'm lugging a 10" tablet around, I want a full-sized keyboard. I'm not walking down the street or an aisle at Best Buy with this thing in my hand. What am I doing with it?
Why not get the MX11 if your going to get a big slate like this?
I'm pretty sure that the Apple tablet will be more portable and will have better features for a sub-1000 device.
I hope apple does make the tablet a sub-1000 device.
One of the big problems is that a 10" slate running win7 (or XP) is only half baked.
The manufacturers seem to think "if we build it, people will code for it. It needs to be offered out of the box with a visually appealing, useful application package which will make the user wonder how they lived without it.
Just sticking win7 on it is like selling someone an empty donut box...they are going to be royally ticked off when they open it up.
That is why UMPCs never really achieved mass market appeal (beyond the obvious that they were priced 3x what they should have sold for).
@tmarks11 I am sure that Apple won't make that mistake with the iSlate, which is why it will achieve wide acceptance and this thing will stutter into oblivion.
@tmarks11 Did you just reply to yourself? Woah...
Regardless, just so you know, vanilla Win7 is actually quite touch-friendly: large taskbar, optional large icons, finger-scrolling built-in, etc. And since this screen's only 1024x680, even the non-large graphics will be big enough for finger use.
This could be a cool possible hackintosh!
@dkedinger
If the Apple tablet turns out to be just an enlarged iPhone I can see many people agreeing with you.
@artist everyone knows that but it's too bad some people try to mask the use of the swastika by highlighting its ancient roots instead of what it does represent in modern days and thus ultimately the real intent and purpose of its use: racial supremacy, hate and the advocacy of the murder of millions of innocent people.
Or is it that you are one of those that deny that millions of men, women and babies were butchered under the swastika?
@artist I know I'm just extending this OT discussion, but, dude, all those old guys are dead. This is now. Regardless of its ancient origins, which in any case (if you're to be believed) pre-dates written history and therefore can only be speculated upon, the only real power in a symbol is how people react when they see it. That means, how we react to it when we see it on our computer screens. Leave ancient history out of it, and wake up to reality.
That said, I don't even remember what that swastyka guy said. Backfire.
Has anyone ever tried DOING anything with a tablet. As long as people have to type (and a tremendous amount of what we do on computers is type) tablets are annoying, difficult to use, frustrating and just plain stupid. Wait till people stop oooohing and aaaahing over the apple tablet. The first thing they will complaining about is lack of keyboard. Remember the disappointment over the ipod/iphones still clumsy input? Then everyone will have to buy some cheapo bluetooth keyboard for a hundred bucks.
How about working on some decent speech recognition before we start shelling out thousands of bucks for tablets?
@cherryboom
if I were you, I'd kick my own ass.
Seriously... English, motherfucker, do you speak it?!