Bill Gates has been saying that Tablet PCs are the future for quite a while, Microsoft tried its hands but wasn’t able to come up with something spectacular, which might change with the Courier aka Codex. If Netbooks defined the last 3 years of this decade, Tablet PCs will define the beginning of the next.
While everyone is talking about the christening of the rumored Apple Tablet, my cousin kept harassing me to compare the so far known Tablets, I kept pushing it but since I had nothing to do I thought of putting together a chart. I’ve compared:
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iSlate – Apple’s rumored tablet PC & all information about it is based on well… rumors.iPad – Apple’s foray into tablet computing with a glorified ebook reader that does multimedia as well. An ebook store – iBook and support for all existing iPhone/iPod apps at a rather low price. -
Chandra’s JooJoo – seriously, what a shit name. CrunchPad sounded good.
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Notion Ink – On the Inter tubes for a week and it seems a lot better than the JooJoo.
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Dell Streak – all technical specs aren’t available but what’s on the Inter tubes seems solid.
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Archos 5 – it sucks if you ask me. I don’t know why I even put it here.Archos 9 – looks don’t impress but with Windows 7, a Ctrl+Alt+Delete option and capability to run Office apps, it sure is a feature-rich tablet.
So here’s the chart I put together and I shall be updating it as & when more information comes I can:
PS: Fellow blogger Taimur at RedmondPie has done some detailed spec comparisons of Google’s upcoming Nexus One.
December 28th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Wtf was fusion garage thinking? Joo Joo? Seriously!
Their product is gonna flop. Who is going to pay $500 for a browser? It would have been a sweet product if it was priced at say $300.
Notion Ink looks interesting but the one I am really interested in is Apple Tablet. Apple has made it their habit to introduce game changing products.
Btw, your image isnt loading.
December 28th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
uploaded the image to another CDN. Should be fixed.
January 2nd, 2010 at 7:15 am
The iSlate isn’t confirmed to be running iPhone OS yet. Actually, nothing about it is confirmed. Just throwing that out there.
January 26th, 2010 at 12:47 am
Guess we will all know soon enough, I’ll be waiting to see what they actually do offer.
January 28th, 2010 at 11:43 pm
Hahaha… iPad is going to be the total flop… Archos 9 trumps the iPad in every feature… the iPad specs and what not have been released the public… 720 p and only 30 fps… going to be using the OS from the iPhone/iTouch instead of OSX which is just a horrid mistake… no flash what so ever… Archos 9 had windows 7 1080p… almost 60fps… 500 and has 64g with wifi… iPad 64g with wifi and 3g is going to be over 800$… I wouldn’t waste my time on the iPad… that Notions Ink has perked my intrest….
March 11th, 2010 at 8:59 am
@Morriz
iPad specs have been released, ever since the product announcement. Anyways, it almost always has been true that the lesser product boasts a longer spec sheet. In the end, the best feature is usability, which Apple has a track record in excelling in. To quote the legendary tech analyst Walt Mossenberg, “It’s all about the software stupid!” The iPhone OS is the best UI for a touch product on the market today, and Apple made the right choice in adapting it to the iPad. Windows 7 is not built for a touch device, and according to Ballmer, they won’t make any changes to adapt it. Plus, a desktop OS makes the tablet clunky and slow. Have you seen the Archos demos? An embarrassment, if you ask me.
March 11th, 2010 at 11:37 pm
well put Seth. I agree that a desktop OS like Windows 7 isn’t meant for that form factor, maybe a version of the new Windows Phone 7 Series OS would suit better.