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PaceBlade Technology
This was one of my favorite products shown here at PCExpo this year. It's from a company called PaceBlade Technology. The product is called the PaceBook, which is really the first tablet notebook. Let me explain why. Take a look at these pictures:
The PaceBook as a tablet |
The PaceBook as a notebook |
The PaceBook as a desktop |
Desktop, but in portrait mode |
You can see from this that the PaceBook allows a lot of functionality. Since the keyboard is used wirelessly, you can set it apart from the actual tablet, I believe it will work up to 30 feet away. In comparison to an actual notebook, you can separate the monitor to make it more like a desktop rather than having it right in front of the keyboard.
On the actual tablet there are various features that allow for upgrade ability and compatibility with other products. First of all there is are on-board speakers as well as a microphone. There is a slot for a PC card, a 100MBps LAN/56K connector, VGA connector, and USB as well as firewire ports. I should mention that the unit supports the 802.11b wireless format, as well as an option for Bluetooth. The entire unit weighs about 1.7kg and is only 1" thick.
The units I saw looked very slick and the LCD seemed to be easy to see. The 12.1" XGA screen really doesn't seem that small, and PaceBlade demonstrated a few things including a full-screen MPEG which looked awesome.
Here are some of the inside specs:
- Transmeta Crusoe 600MHz processor
- 4MB SMI Lynx graphics controller
- 128MB SDRAM
- 20GB HDD
- 12.1" XGA TFT-LCD display
- Windows ME or Windows 2000 OS
- Optional accessories include CD-RW/DVD-ROM, wireless infrared remote control and CCD camera.
I've been showing you shots of the product from the press CD they provided to us, but here's a couple shots of the product at PCExpo:
Desktop mode |
Portrait mode |
I'll be trying to get a review unit here, and possibly a couple other products in the same arena for a comparison in the future.
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