http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/ Engadget Comments for Toshiba shows off Smart Pad tablet prototype, promises launch before October http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/
"iPad Ripoff"]]>Jul 20th 2010 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/*in b4 downrank *
there fixed ]]>Jul 20th 2010 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/
oh I wasn't saying it is (There aren't enough details to make any sort of conclusion...though HDMI and Windows 7 are very "not iPad"), I just wanted to stop anyone from thinking they were being clever...looking at the comments below though, it seems my effort was in vain. ]]>Jul 20th 2010 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/Jul 20th 2010 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/Jul 20th 2010 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/
iPad = HP TC1100 rip off]]>Jul 20th 2010 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/Jul 20th 2010 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/take a look at the HP TC1100, then come back and tell me who copied whom]]>Jul 20th 2010 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/Jul 20th 2010 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/
Announcing a product with no set release date, no set price and not even a final OS?? I'm betting $100 this becomes vaporware.]]>Jul 20th 2010 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/
Wrong. The HP TC1100 is a heavy brick and runs Windows.
There is something wrong with your eyes.]]>Jul 20th 2010 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/Were there tablets before that? Yes. Were there Sony Vaio notebooks that apple stole the looks from? Yes. Will there be people who scream "Apple did it first" Yes, and you are one of them. Stop that nonsense apple made everything first crap. Sure they can make product sell better but it doesn't mean they came up with the idea first and made the very first products!]]>Jul 20th 2010 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/
Anyway... Which Vaio did Apple copy the looks from? Just interested, as I've never seen a Vaio look anything like a Macbook / Pro, except the chiclet 2006 Macbook keyboard which (to my recollection) later appeared on Vaios.]]>Jul 20th 2010 8:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/Android instead of windows 7.]]>Jul 20th 2010 9:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/Actually, look at the past design of sony's notebooks before damn 2006. And now you are saying Apple invented chiclet keyboard? Wow you might want to lay off that apple koolaid!

Have you seen the FS660?Or the VGN-TX1XP that displayed the first kind of true portability? I can go on and on about this. Oh forgot about how apple started to recruit sony engineers for their mobile division. So where did apple get their concept of cool notebooks. Go back to the gator!]]>Jul 20th 2010 9:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/Seriously though, I know it's a tablet, but fuck, I thought he was holding an iPad!]]>Jul 20th 2010 9:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/
And people complained about the iPad's bezel...]]>Jul 20th 2010 9:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/
Hell, that was the first thing I thought of... "Holy iPad Clone, Batman!" I don't care about that so much, though, but I do wish that this glossy screen business would die already. :(]]>Jul 21st 2010 12:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/Jul 20th 2010 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/
Round 1. FIGHT. FINSIH HIM. FATALITY.

Welcome to [Winner OS].]]>Jul 20th 2010 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/
Well, the only platform that will allow that is an Intel Atom-based SoC...Oaktrail being the Moorestown derivative that supports Windows 7...and knowing Toshiba and Microsoft's long time associations, the Windows one seems more likely...

Of course, the is nothing stopping anyone from running dual boot, given the hardware supports it. I mean, they got the iPhone running Android for God's sake...]]>Jul 20th 2010 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/Jul 20th 2010 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/Hi HP TC1100, no wait, hi Fujitsu Stylistic, no wait, hi Motion Computing, no wait, hi slate tablet PC, no wait, ...]]>Jul 20th 2010 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/Jul 20th 2010 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/Jul 20th 2010 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/
HEY LOOK, I'M USIN AN SS.

Oh wait. There was that thing around 70+ years ago... Yeah.... SS, not good.]]>Jul 20th 2010 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/netbook = low end notebook
pad = low end slate]]>Jul 20th 2010 4:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/Jul 20th 2010 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/Jul 20th 2010 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/
OS actually designed for the form factor please. Honestly, Windows 7 was not designed for this kind of platform. You're better off with Android. Or even Maemo (Or whatever name it is now.). Hell, a touch oriented version of Linux like Jolicloud would be better.]]>Jul 20th 2010 4:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/
Windows 7 was designed for touch... but Windows programs as a whole have not.

And I really doubt there will be a "touch optimized" version of Filezilla or other popular Windows programs.

Web surfing will be fine on a Windows tablet. Kindle reading will be fine, too. But I just don't see the point of putting a full version of Windows on something that has reduced functionality overall.

We've had tablets running full versions of Windows for years. Then a new tablet running a specialized OS made for touch comes out. So now full Windows tablets are suddenly desirable again?

Prove it, Microsoft.]]>Jul 20th 2010 5:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/Jul 20th 2010 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/
for SHO!]]>Jul 20th 2010 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/yeah, pretty dump to copy a device, introduced by MS in the late 90s]]>Jul 20th 2010 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/I sure hope these Smartie Pads can pull it off this time, we've seen enough tablet-vaporware this year.]]>Jul 20th 2010 11:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/Jul 20th 2010 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/I hate how people think Apple made things first.]]>Jul 20th 2010 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/Jul 20th 2010 4:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/Jul 20th 2010 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/Well I love you all]]>Jul 20th 2010 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/Jul 20th 2010 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/Jul 20th 2010 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/Jul 20th 2010 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/Jul 20th 2010 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/Jul 20th 2010 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/Jul 20th 2010 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/Jul 20th 2010 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/
http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/220435,toshiba-taking-on-the-ipad-with-both-windows-7-and-android.aspx

this is the original article, can you find that phrase for me? No? Ok thanks for playing. ]]>Jul 20th 2010 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/Jul 20th 2010 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/toshiba-shows-off-smart-pad-tablet-prototype-promises-launch-be/Jul 20th 2010 4:38PM