Dell has introduced its first Tablet PC today. This tablet pc is believed to have a touch screen facility. Dell is not new to the touch screen business. This facility was also equipped in the recently launched entertainment computer from dell named XPS. This tablet PC would be named as Dell Latitude XT. The tablet weighs 3.6 pounds making it the lightest tablet pc available. It runs on Intel core 2 solo or Duo processor, the 12.1 inch display, the integrated ATI Radeon graphics card, comes with 1GB RAM which is upgradable to 2 or 3GB. The hard disks supported are 40GB to 120GB RPM drives and also comes with support for 32 to 64GB Solid State Disk drives. The present operating system’s supported are the Tablet version of XP i.e.. Windows XP Tablet Edition 2005. Windows Vista Business and Windows Vista Ultimate both 32 as well as 64 bit versions are supported. The Dell wireless support and the Dell Bluetooth support are the added advantages. Dell has also introduced two different broadband compatibilities which are in co-ordination with Sprint, Telus and Verizon Broadband services. The device also offers up to 9hrs of battery life.
There is also a news for Toshiba supporters, Toshiba has released the Portege M700, which is the 2nd tablet pc from this company. Toshiba has been selling tablet pc’s from over an year now. When we compare the features of both these tablet pc’s, the only difference lies is with the price. Toshiba offers its tablet pc for a basic configuration of $1,699 where as Dell’s price tag starts with $2,499 when it starts shipping at the end of this year. Infact, when we enter into more details, Toshiba offers a more faster laptop with the processor’s clock speed of 2.2GHz where as Dell’s is 1.2GHz, it has 4MB L2 cache when compared to the 2MB L2 cache in Dell’s device. However the processor used by Toshiba is not the standard Intel’s Core 2 or Duo one, it is T7500 rather.
There are also speculations that other companies who has licenses for Touch screen technologies have registered a defending case against Dell. In future, Dell has also plans to introduce multi touch facility like the Microsoft’s Surface computer and Apple’s IPhone and the recent IPod.
There are also speculations that other companies who has licenses for Touch screen technologies have registered a defending case against Dell. In future, Dell has also plans to introduce multi touch facility like the Microsoft’s Surface computer and Apple’s IPhone and the recent IPod.