Judging by the number of touchscreen laptops alone, HP wasn’t the most agressive of manufacturers when it came to building machines for Windows 8. However, after launching a trio of laptops, the company looks like it’s ready to continue filling out its portfolio with the business-focused Elitebook Revolve, the latest in a long line of convertible tablets from the company. Like its predecessors, the Revolve has a centrally-hinged display that can twist 180 degrees and closed to turn the laptop into a pseudo-tablet, but it’s the first offered with a truly touch-friendly operating system. It has also been slimmed down significantly, coming in at 3 pounds at 22mm thick.
The laptop itself is centered around a fairly standard 11.6-inch, 1366…
We just had the opportunity to get some hands-on time with MSI’s latest creation, the S20 Slidebook. This ultra light (2.3 pounds) and thin (0.78-inches) convertible Ultrabook is running Windows 8 (of course) and is powered by an Intel Core i5 processor (Ivy Bridge). Take a look at the gallery below and stay tuned for our first impressions and video.
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One Laptop Per Child Details The XO-4 Touch, A Touchscreen Convertible Notebook For Emerging Markets
OLPC is plowing forward with the successor to the XO-1. The XO-4, a 7.5-inch convertible notebook clearly born from the same DNA of the XO-1, will feature a touchscreen and keyboard. As OLPC states, this will allow the XO-4 to be a dual-function device, perfect for non-profit education duty.
A Marvell ARMADA 2128 processor will power the device. The XO-4 will use a multi-touch display sourced from Neonode that’s capable of being used in direct sunlight. Combined with the tablet/laptop functionality, this Neonode display should make the XO-4 rather versatile, too.
OLPC CEO Rodrigo Arboleda said in a released statement today, “There is constant debate over laptops versus tablets in educational programs. But the truth is both have their merits. While maintaining our XO’s award-winning design from Yves Behar’s FuseProject, we have combined features of both devices to deliver dual benefits. The new XO-4 Touch is more than just a device, it’s a new way of facilitating learning.”
The XO-4 Touch is expected to be available in the first quarter of 2013. No word on pricing.
Acer and Asus may have introduced Windows 8 machines in every form factor under the sun yesterday at Computex Taipei, and here’s another from compatriots MSI — the Slider S20, a “convertible ultrabook” with a hardware keyboard that slides out from under the screen. The sliding mechanism works well, with just the right amount of resistance and a satisfying pop into place. It comes across somewhat like an oversized Motorola Droid, with the useful exception that the keyboard doubles as a stand in the laptop-style configuration.
Obviously the Slider S20′s closed mode makes some compromises in thickness and weight next to a traditional tablet, but it wasn’t too unwieldy — and it’s important to note that there’s a full-fledged computer…
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If you’re excited about convertible tablets but can’t wait for the IdeaPad Yoga to arrive, then perhaps Novero’s Solana might give you a temporary fix. It’s a dinky netbook (yes, netbook) that runs both Windows 7 and Android, but you can flip the display over in its frame to turn it into a tablet PC. It’s packing a dual-core 1.6GHz Intel Atom N2600, Intel GMA 3600 IGP Graphics, 2GB of RAM and a choice of 32 or 64GB of solid-state storage. Fortunately, it looks like it won’t be long before we get to clench it to our chests since it’s now been given the thumbs-up from the assembled experts down in the FCC’s underground bunker. For around $ 800, you too can pretend it’s 2009 all over again, just remember to bring the Flo Rida.
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Do you remember the LIFEBOOK TH40/D, the pretty nice-looking convertible tablet that Fujitsu unveiled last month? It now turns out that the Windows 7 device will not hit Japanese stores this month, even though Fujitsu announced just that just about five weeks ago.
To recap, the tablet is powered by Windows 7 Home Premium, has a slide-out keyboard under its 10.1-inch LCD screen and comes with 1GB RAM, an Atom Z670 (1.50GHz) CPU, and a 120GB HDD.
On its website, Fujitsu doesn’t really explain [JP] what happened between now and May 13 (when the release date was made public) other than “problems in development”. The company just says the release is being pushed back indefinitely (usually not a good sign) and apologizes to all potential customers.
We’ll keep you posted, also regarding possible international sales plans.
It seems Fujitsu’s got a thing for morphing PCs. Way back in 2006, we saw this mysterious tri-fold concept, which was rumored to be making the rounds inside Fujitsu R&D, and now the outfit’s short-listed this déjà-vu-inducing transformer for its 2011 “Life with Future Computing Award.” The Flexbook, designed by Hao-Chun Huang, features a foldable 21:9 touchscreen and similarly flexible keyboard that allow its users to switch from laptop to tablet to book-like e-reader. It’s also been designed to sport a number of interchangeable sleeves in a Benetton-esque array of colors and patterns. It might have seemed impractical five years ago, but with convertibles coming of age, we’d say the Flexbook isn’t really all that far out.
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We’re not quite sure what it is with companies and their loose PDFs these days, but another pair of documents have now surfaced on HP’s servers, which provide the complete specs and our first real look at the company’s previously leaked EliteBook 2560p and 2760p. Perhaps most notably, we now for sure that the latter is indeed a convertible tablet as we had suspected, including a swiveling 12.1-inch matte display, along with your choice of Sandy Bridge Core i5 or i7 processors, up to a 320GB hard drive or 160GB SSD, a maximum 16GB of RAM, and the usual integrated Intel HD3000 graphics (no other option, unfortunately). The EliteBook 2560p, on the other hand, packs an ever so slightly larger 12.5-inch display, and some mostly similar specs across the board — the biggest exception being up to a 750GB hard drive thanks to its 2.5-inch storage bay (versus 1.8-inch on the 2760p. Still no prices for either of them, although we’ve got to assume that HP will be making these completely official fairly soon.
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That’s not the Asus Tranformer, kids. That’s the Acer Iconia W500 10-inch convertible tablet with Windows 7. BHPhotoVideo has it up for pre-order even though it’s yet to be confirmed for the States. The listed price is $ 549, which is the same as the Transformer with the keyboard add-on and the Acer Iconia W500 packs the hot (not temperature wise, of course) AMD Fusion platform.
Besides the AMD C-50 CPU with a dual-core 1GHz clock rate, there’s a RADEON HD 6250 GPU, 2GB of DDR3 RAM, a 32GB SSD, and enough I/O ports to embarrass many netbooks, let alone competing tablets with HDMI, 10/100 Ethernet, USB 2.0. The product page lists the HD CrystalBrite 10.1-inch LCD with a 1280 x 800 resolution. A 32-bit install of Windows 7 Home Premium is the operating system of choice and the included keyboard dock includes a little mouse nub for natural Windows control.
There’s a market for Windows 7 tablets, but this seems more like a netbook with a detachable keyboard. It’s probably best to wait until some benchmarks hit before handing over your credit card for a pre-order. [Via NetbookNews]
Since the very first day we saw the Dell Inspiron Duo’s crazy swiveling hinge in action, we knew we wanted a laptop that swung that way — but the Inspiron Duo itself turned out to be a sluggish netvertible with poor battery life. Well, it looks like Dell may be looking for a second chance, because a “Dell Panerai” just hit the FCC, which looks like it sprung from the same minds who dreamt up the original’s sexy frame. Believe it or not, we can thank Intel for revealing this Dell P12F and Canada for pointing out its convertible nature, because of a little-known test specifically designed for transforming tablets like these — our northern neighbors require that they get checked for face-melting radioactivity if they have antennas built into the display, and that’s just what happened to the dual-band Intel 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi radio inside this machine. Oh, and judging by our calculations (based on the size of that orange label), the unit could sport a 15-inch screen.
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