Japan’s “PBJ Corporation” has announced the “Slate” series of touchpanel PCs. PBJ has apparently built these PCs based on the “PaceBook” series from back in 2002. These seem to be competition towards NEC’s new VersaPro tablet – as the Slate series not only function as tablet PC, but touchscreen PC, and “conservative-space PC.”
On the inside of the 24mm thick (less than 1″) case, you’ll fine at best a Pentium M 1.3GHz processor (your peanuts), 40GB hard drive (butter), 802.11b/g wireless LAN, 256MB of memory (jelly), and two USB ports. Interestingly enough, these tablets/touchscreens/notebooks/whatevers run not Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, but plain old Windows XP Professional. Going out on a limb here, but I will assume that this means you don’t get the “revolutionary” handwriting recognition technology included with Tablet PC edition.
And as for the all-important battery life, expect about four and a half hours from your sandwich.
Read – Press Release [PBJ Corporation]
