October 10, 2003

Nice Tablet PC

I think I found the machine I might start drooling over. Scoble points out that Acer is coming out with the Travelmate C300 which is a supped up Pentium M 1.5 Ghz with 512 Megs of ram, a 14.1 inch display, a 40 gig harddrive and all the trimmings.

My laptop is much to slow to do development with Developer Studio, and I am going to need to upgrade soon. Although my desktop machine works great (and I don't know if I can live without my dual monitor set up) I spend a lot of time away from it in places where I could be productive if I had one of these things.

It has up to a 5 hour battery life which isn't to shabby and even has a built in bay for a CDRW/DVD combo. My only complaints are that it doesn't have bluetooth and the thing weights in at 6.2 pounds. My laptop right now is only 2 pounds, and I don't think I would want anything much heavier. (Ya I have been spoiled)

Chances are I will end up buying a lighter one that is used on Ebay or something. As much as this thing looks neat, I am not sure if I wanna pour $2,299 US for something that is 6.5 pounds. I'm told NEC has some of the lightest Tablets. I will have to check that out one of these days.


Posted by SilverStr at October 10, 2003 08:50 AM | TrackBack
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Well the Acer C300 is Pent M 1.5 GHz...speed demon. The NEC is light, but at the same price point, and only Pent III. But if you want same weight as NEC and performance, look to Tatung TTAB-B12D Tablet PC and the various OEM offerings.

Tatung TTAB-B12D - 10.4", 900 mhz Centrino, 30GB, 256MB RAM, 2.2 lbs, 10/100, V.92, 2 USB ports, PCMCIA slot, VGA video-out, IrDA, IEEE 1394, with a nice keyboard docking base.

Posted by: Christopher Coulter at October 10, 2003 02:03 PM

I'm drooling over the new Acer C300 too. Before that, the front runner for me was the Fujitsu T3010. If you're looking for something lighter, I think it's about 4lbs, but doesn't have the internal CD drive. It's a Pentium M 1.4 with a 12.1" screen, so it's basicly a smaller and lighter C300 without the internal drive. Oh and they're selling about $500 less than the C300 on pricewatch now too. I just don't wanna lug around an external CD drive and the 14" screen is very appealing to me, so I'd definately take the acer. I can just go to the gym more to get used to carrying it. =)

Posted by: Toby Hudon at October 26, 2003 02:15 PM

If you know you're not going to need the optical drive you could remove it and that would significantly lower the weight.

Posted by: Chris BOwen at November 17, 2003 01:53 PM

Looks like where getting a better deal in the UK. Out basic model (303XMi) has a 1.6Ghz Pentium M, 60GB HDD and DVD-RW. All that for what works out to be $2600

Can't wait till mine arrives!

Posted by: Daniel at November 19, 2003 12:10 PM

The UK model also has bluetooth, and hits the stores witin days.. mines on back order. can't wait.

Posted by: Mark Freeman at December 6, 2003 02:11 PM