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MSI to show Windows 7-based Slatebook tablet

updated 01:35 pm EDT, Thu May 13, 2010

MSI bringing Win 7 tablet to Computex


MSI will bring a tablet PC to the Computex show in Tainwan at the start of June that will be powered by one of Intel's Atom Z-series processors. Furthermore, the device will be priced at under $500, Digitimes said, claiming unnamed sources in the industry. Dubbed the Slatebook, the device is said to sport a 10-inch display, 3G, Wi-Fi and run on Windows 7.

The Slatebook would also double as an e-book reader, with the company engaged in negotiations with content providers and software designers. MSI's planned e-book reader, meanwhile, has been put on the back burner.

At the same time, MSI is mulling a similar PC that uses NVIDIA's newer dual-core Tegra but intends to gauge the market before launching such a device.

The Slatebook wouldn't be the only touch-only Windows tablet due at Computex, as the ASUS Eee Pad will first arrive with Windows 7. Such hardware may still be in the minority as companies like HP may have canceled their own slates in favor of mobile OS tablets after seeing the iPad's early success.


By Electronista Staff

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  1. Paul Huang

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    05/13, 02:04pm | report spam | reply

    What do we read?

    Regardless of RGB or CMYK, type being displayed/read need to be legible. What Microsoft has been lacking is typography. It was that way in the 80s and nothing changed.

    Typography, down to the minute details, is not something that Microsoft is even aware.


  1. iphonerulez

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    05/13, 02:28pm | report spam | reply

    How the h*** is MSI going to market

    a tablet to the cheapsters who barely want to pay $350 for a netbook and charge them $500 for what the geeks consider less functional than a netbook. It's merely a netbook without a keyboard. I say there is no way they can make a Windows 7 tablet a success to consumers. Why would the average consumer want Windows 7 desktop on a tablet? Maybe geeks and IT guys might want it, but not the average consumer. Consumers are buying the iPad because it's simple to use and has good battery life. No Windows/Atom tablet will offer that. It absolutely has to be a sales failure.


  1. lamewing

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    05/13, 02:33pm | report spam | (2 replies) | reply

    @iphonerulez

    How about this as an example. Windows 7 has advanced handwriting recognition software that works in multiple languages, including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, etc. IF they provide stylus support and sell the stylus separately because not everyone will use the stylus, they will open up handwriting input on a tablet...something that is SORELY missed on the iPad. I took my iPad back and am again using my Thinkpad X61T until someone brings out a stylus supported tablet with handwriting recognition.

    Think about it. There are A LOT of folks who could use this feature


  1. Paul Huang

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    05/13, 04:36pm | report spam | reply

    Without a typing class

    Who needs handwriting recognition anyway? There has been a handwriting recognition system for the most complex language in the world: Chinese, and is there a need? It doesn't seem that way. Sometimes I may not know how to sound out the character, so I resort to writing the character on my MacBook Pro's trackpad or iPhone's screen. How often does that occur? Once in a blue moon.

    Without a single typing lesson, the desire to text each other is making youngsters find the most efficient way around the keyboard—whether they do touch-typing or two fingers. Why would they resort to handwriting?

    Voice recognition was made to supplant handwriting recognition, but where is it now? Behind us, of curse, except some limited applications.

    Give it up.


  1. MeandmyMac

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    05/13, 05:09pm | report spam | reply

    But will it have...

    a stylus and some form of physical keyboard that Bill Gates believes what is needed in order to make it a true tablet and that if it is a iPad look-a-like, it won't have that much of a "WOW" factor...


    "There's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it'," Gates told business technology website Bnet. "It's not like I sit there and feel the same way I did with the iPhone, where I say, 'Oh my God, Microsoft didn't aim high enough'."
    Gates said that he did not think a fully touch-screen tablet would be a hit with consumers. "I'm a bit believer in touch and digital reading, but I still thank that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard – in other words a nebook – will be the mainstream on that," he said...

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/7212716/Bill-Gates-dismisses-Apple-iPad.html


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