Another two touchscreen tablets join the iPad wanna-be race, with MSI putting a dollar each way on Windows and Android for its 10 inch slates.
Computex 2010 | It’s no surprise that pad, slates and tablets will be the gadgets de jour at this year’s Computex. Even before the Tuesday morning kickoff for Taiwan’s annual techfest we’ve seen Asus and MSI hoping to follow up their early-to-market netbook success with touchscreen tablets.
And so, in the wake of this afternoon’s debut for the
Asus Eee Pad we now have MSI’s unfortunately-named WindPad.
You simply can't launch tech in Taiwan without the presence of a pretty young lady
(or a smoke machine, laser lighting and the big Product Reveal moment... rap dancers are optional)
The 10 inch tablet will ship in two versions. The WindPad 100 is a Wintel system which paris Windows 7 (bearing MSI’s customised ‘Wind Touch UI’) with Intel’s 1.6GHz Atom Z530, which does’t sound like an especially peppy combination. Expect a US$500 price tag around it lands later this year.
The WindPad 110 swaps the Intel silicon for Nvidia’s Tegra 2 ‘system-on-a-chip’ dual-core ARM processor, which in turn drives the Android 2.1 OS. The sticker on this should be closer to US$400 although there’s no indication of release date.
Both models share a 1024 x 600 display, two USB ports and HDMI output, which supports 720p in Windows and under Android.
David Flynn is visiting Computex 2010 in Taipei as a guest of Intel.