NEC announces All-In-One Touch Panels with Netbook-like specs

Posted by John Brownlee, August 28, 2008 9:49 AM | permalink

NEC has announced two new interesting tablets in Japan today. The 12 inch 12PNC-W2/B2 and the 15 inch 15PNC-W2/B2 seem to be the first tablets released with an Atom processor: 1.6GHz with between 512MB or 1GB of RAM, an 80GB HDD and flavors including XP Embedded (a fine choice) and Vista (on Atom? lolwut). There's no price yet, but those specs seem to indicate to me this will be priced around the netbook level, which would be wonderful. I would love a cheap, keyboard-less, internet-connected nettablet for my living room, for simple doodling, media control and idle reading.

NEC All-In-One Touch Panel [Akihabara News]

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#1 posted by nerdron , August 28, 2008 10:07 AM

I would love to have one of these if you can keep the price low enough. Just as John said, it is great for living room computer tasks of all shapes and sizes.

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#2 posted by Havanacus , August 28, 2008 4:27 PM

I would pretend to be a scientist in Stargate: Atlantis... What?...

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#3 posted by resnovae , August 28, 2008 8:35 PM

I just picked up an HP Pavilion tx2525... I don't mind the bulk from the keyboard when I'm just tooling around the living room, I didn't even mind having a plain laptop in the living room, but I went with the tablet because the price and the specs were right (about $1000) to justify the fact that I liked the convenience of having a tablet screen built in better than my previous setup-having to wait until I was home and sit down at a real desk, then haul out my USB non-display tablet just to doodle/sketch onto the notebook.

Personal experience- if you are in tablet mode, you can't just place it on your lap, you won't be able to view the LCD screen without tipping it at an angel. Large sofa throw pillows are a huge help in that dept when you are riding the couch.

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#4 posted by Itsumishi , August 28, 2008 10:59 PM

I want someone to team up with Wacom and create an awesome tablet pc for design kids. I know this sort of thing could never ever fall into the cheap category but some beautiful 17" widescreen hypersensitive tablet with all the beautiful features such as pens that can tell what angle you are writing on would be my dream come true. I'd also be willing to spend big bucks on it once I actually had them.

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#5 posted by Mark Crummett