$1349 for a tablet.

CPU: Low Voltage Mobile AMD Athlonâ„¢ XP-M 2200+
OS: Microsoft® Windows® XP Tablet PC
LCD Size: High Contrast 12.1’’ XGA
Optical Drive: DVD+CD-RW
Hard Drive: 60
Memory: 512MB DDR
Wireless LAN: 802.11g
Wired LAN: 10/100 LAN
Modem: 56k
USB: (4x) 2.0
Dimensions(WxDxH): 11.6” x 9.8” x 1.6”
Weight (lbs.): 5.5 lbs.

Nothing about battery life, but at 5.5lbs, who wants to walk around with that, writing all day?

At least this is a cheap tablet for those really dying to try this poorly implimented technology.

Erik

I’ve had a chance to use my professor’s tablet laptop for some time, and I wasn’t too impressed. I think it’s more like a gimmick rather than a necessity. For jotting down occassional notes, the tablet does have some use. However, I would rather use my TH55 for that purpose rather than dragging along a 5.5 machine with me.

Maybe some day, the tablet would evolve into something more essential. Until that day, I will wait and see.

[quote author=“qua77ro”]I’ve had a chance to use my professor’s tablet laptop for some time, and I wasn’t too impressed. I think it’s more like a gimmick rather than a necessity. For jotting down occassional notes, the tablet does have some use. However, I would rather use my TH55 for that purpose rather than dragging along a 5.5 machine with me.

Maybe some day, the tablet would evolve into something more essential. Until that day, I will wait and see.

Yeah, and the public agrees with you, the tablet’s sales in general have been less then almost anyone predicted.

Erik

Don’t forget about the $50 mail in rebate!  :mrgreen:

Its true.  Tablets have some growing up to do.  This is an encouraging effort by Avaratec.  It looks to me like it is similar to the V505 with a flip screen and an extra pound.  I don’t know how the CPU stacks up, though.  The price makes up for any performance disadvantages, but it appears capable.

Thanks for posting, tifosiv122.  I know how you love Tablets and Flash hard disks. :wink:

I think it’s weight.

I have used a Nexio s160 which has about a five inch SVGA screen and it’s a great tablet because you can hold it in one hand.

I think idealy you should be able to hold it for a while int one hand.

You hold it in one hand and in the other you hold the pen.

if you ask me, the spec is wrong for these things.

However, Sony has come out with a very small (fairly light) tablet (U50) which might help the standard.

Again, ‘Light’ is the key word.

[quote author=“TruthSeeker”]Don’t forget about the $50 mail in rebate!  :mrgreen:

Its true.  Tablets have some growing up to do.  This is an encouraging effort by Avaratec.  It looks to me like it is similar to the V505 with a flip screen and an extra pound.  I don’t know how the CPU stacks up, though.  The price makes up for any performance disadvantages, but it appears capable.

Thanks for posting, tifosiv122.  I know how you love Tablets and Flash hard disks. :wink:

There is an *, I think the price is after the rebate, not before…but i’m not 100% sure since I can’t find the other *.

Erik

If u click on Buy Now the price shows up as 1349. So, it would mean that the final price after rebates would be 1299. There might always be taxes and shipping costs involved though

Yep, your right. So, $1,299 after rebate, really, really cheap for a tablet.

Still no mention on battery life though.

Erik

That probably means that the battery life sucks.  Otherwise they would have touted it as a feature/benefit.