ExoPC Slate has comparable storage to the iPad (32 or 64GB) but it also has a webcam, hardware accelerated Flash (and Silverlight), handwriting recognition, fully accessible USB ports and an SD card slot and of course it runs any Windows application you want. for the same price as the iPad, you'll soon be able to get an 11-inch Windows 7 tablet.for all the advantages of Windows, making a tablet PC that's cheap, portable and attractive isn't that easy.
Major PC makers seem to feel that Windows isn't quite right for a device with no keyboard that's aimed at mainstream consumers rather than industrial and business users. ExoPC tablet certainly feels professionally designed; it's well-built and sturdy.
The high screen resolution from ExoPC tablet is ideal for video, but it also means you can fit a whole web page, in portrait mode. This gives you full 1080p output, so you can drive a projector or a big-screen TV from the tablet.
If you end up at the Windows boot screen faced with a menu long before the touch drivers have loaded – you don't need to plug in a keyboard; the light sensor in the top left corner also marks a touch button that you can tap to scroll through menus and press for five seconds to use as an Enter key. It's a nice touch to mask one of the few remaining areas where Windows creaks on a touch-only device everything else, even the BIOS, works with touch.
Some ExoPC models come with a capacitive stylus; we tested ours with the popular BoxWave stylus which has a large rubbery finger-like point.
Typing on screen is actually more effective than writing. The predictive text in Windows 7 helps here. The large screen, and the fact that Windows needs an x86 processor rather than the power-sipping ARM core that's in the iPad, mean that Windows tablets have to balance battery life against being light enough to carry and hold.
With the screen brightness right down in 'Power saver' mode the ExoPC tablet promises four and a half to five hours of battery life or four hours in balanced mode with a reasonable screen brightness.
Until Atom processors need less power or battery chemistry improves, PC tablets aren't going to do much better than this.
Specs :
- Operating System : Windows 7 OS,
- Screen : 8.9-inch multitouch display.
- Processor : 1.6GHz Atom N270
- 2GB of RAM and a 32GB SSD with SD expansion
- Battery Support : 10 hours
