AnandTech PaceBook PaceBlade TabletPC Review
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Adul
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Hmm.. Battery life is too short.
It definitely got the cool factor, but I'd rather see a truly mobile solution with Windows CE.NET and XScale CPU. The battery life should be at least 5 hours, imo.
It definitely got the cool factor, but I'd rather see a truly mobile solution with Windows CE.NET and XScale CPU. The battery life should be at least 5 hours, imo.
Good review, but it doesn't look like a very viable product. The tablet PC is going to be a huge market that for the most part may be ingnored by the AnandTech readers, very little overclocking potential!
I work for a hardware distributor, and Acer was in here with their new tablet PC the other day and it seems to me a better concept than the PaceBook. The can be used as a regular notebook, but if you want to use it as a tablet PC the LCD swivels around and the screen goes from landscape to portrait... very cool. The handwriting recognition worked very well, even with my chicken scatching.
The product is not vaporware I've seen it and played with it, though not run it through the kind of extensive testing that AnandTech would. Didn't have time to do a timedemo of Quake 3! Acer has a small amount arriving in the USofA this month with a good number arriving on a monthly basis thereafter. The Tablet OS overlays for XP are not scheduled to be released by Redmond until fall is one stumbling block.
My major customer sells into the healthcare field and when Acer showed them and their clients this product, major wood was sprouted. The product may be crap, kinda doubt that as Acer generally makes a good notebook, but I can see where the Tablet PC will be a pretty hot type of product down the road.. and probably not that far away.
I work for a hardware distributor, and Acer was in here with their new tablet PC the other day and it seems to me a better concept than the PaceBook. The can be used as a regular notebook, but if you want to use it as a tablet PC the LCD swivels around and the screen goes from landscape to portrait... very cool. The handwriting recognition worked very well, even with my chicken scatching.
The product is not vaporware I've seen it and played with it, though not run it through the kind of extensive testing that AnandTech would. Didn't have time to do a timedemo of Quake 3! Acer has a small amount arriving in the USofA this month with a good number arriving on a monthly basis thereafter. The Tablet OS overlays for XP are not scheduled to be released by Redmond until fall is one stumbling block.
My major customer sells into the healthcare field and when Acer showed them and their clients this product, major wood was sprouted. The product may be crap, kinda doubt that as Acer generally makes a good notebook, but I can see where the Tablet PC will be a pretty hot type of product down the road.. and probably not that far away.
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