Comments on: Gateway 11.6-Inch Tablet PC Leaked

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:08:33 +0000

An affordable, thin & light tablet is exactly what i want!

More dets! more dets! :)

By: Zeuxidamas

Zeuxidamas — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:47:04 +0000

Just wanted to bounce this off a couple of people, with an 11.6″ screen, are we confident that this is a TabletPC with an active digitizer? A passive stylus input with touch would still be ok, but for me represents use in a different space than I would want. I used Gateway TabletPC’s back while the line was the CX-series, so I am not clear that the product line was eventually migrated to the E-series?

By: JimAtLaw

JimAtLaw — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:42:31 +0000

Sumocat, when you say the “low consumption” processors are still unreleased, I’m not sure what you mean.

Several i7 mobile processors have now been released, as of last week – HP and Dell are now selling laptops with them, these are not “desktop CPU” models. Or are you arguing that tablets must only run with low voltage CPU models and equating the Clarksfield releases to desktop processors?

Fujitsu, by counterexample, already ships to the T5010 with the T9600, which runs at 45W TDP – the new Core i7 820QM also runs at 45W TDP. Here’s hoping they soon swap in the new chipset and CPU!

By: Sumocat

Sumocat — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:11:02 +0000

The low consumption Core i7 processors are still unreleased, and running a tablet on a desktop CPU is a terrible idea.

By: JimAtLaw

JimAtLaw — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:41:05 +0000

How is it that they’re still releasing Core 2 tablets when core i7 processors are shipping?

Christ, it’s like the OEMs aren’t even trying – a large number of the people who buy tablets are POWER USERS. Lawyers, doctors, IT people – give us a GPU and a current generation processor, PLEEEEEASE!