Ray Hendon
The 7-inch category of laptops has been dominated by Android offerings, at least until the iPad Mini came out with its 7.9 inch dimension. It should probably be classified as an 8-inch screen, it is to close.
But now a Taiwanese manufacturer, Inventec, has show attendees at the Computex Fair in Taipei prototype model of a 7-inch Windows 8 tablet. Shown below, it is one device I can’t
wait to see. However, we will not see this device under the Inventec name. This firm does not make computers under its own name, so variations on the one shown will likely be sold with an Acer, Asus or some other name when it gets to market.
According to reports, the tablet has an Intel Atom Bay Trail processor, a 7 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel IPS display, and Windows 8 software. By the time it ships, it’ll run Windows 8.1. The prototype has 2GB of RAM and a 64GB solid state disk, although a 128GB model is also in the works.
A video below shows the new tablet in operation: Follow the link to the video http://youtu.be/torPYQf_N58
I will be looking for this item when it hits the market. With the specs provided it looks to retail for close to $400 or $500.
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