“Apple is facing indirect competition in the form of the newly spotted Ezy Tablet PC,” Electronista reports. “The device takes at least some design cues from the iPad and, like some recent clones, uses netbook foundations to make its attempt.”
“The handheld device has a larger, 10.2-inch screen and runs on Windows 7 with multi-touch, but in a much heavier (2.2 pounds) casing and with a 1.6GHz Atom,” Electronista reports. “It runs on 2GB of RAM, a 2.5-inch, 250GB hard drive and a 1.3-megapixel camera. [It features both] Wi-Fi and 3G… and expansion comes from three USB ports, a VGA output and a multi-format memory card reader. Battery life in the attempted tablet form factor comes in at about 3.5 hours.”
Electronista reports, “A single Ezy Tablet is now available and priced at $679, but ordering the device in larger quantities drops the unit price slightly.”
More info and links in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Where’s the serial port? Unsurprisingly, the “designers” behind this thing don’t get it, either.
Clueless idiots. This is looking really sad. And what part of the thousands of apps that will run on the iPad does this PC crap run.
Instant on for the iPad. Lighter. Longer battery life. Multi touch. No spy ware and viruses. … Who is this thing Windows PC tablet being marketed to?
“runs on Windows 7 with multi-touch”
Fail
This is most likely vapourware. The images are all photoshopped creations. Go to their site; the images are obvious hacks. The site has errors in pricing, too.
And since when can a machine with 2Gb RAM run Windoze 7 in any kind of useful way. (At least to the level of usefulness that W7 could ever attain!)
Yikes!
Cool! The worst of both worlds! It’s heavy, slow and (gulp) Window AND you don’t have a real keyboard.
I’m going to run out and buy one as soon as I get my lobotomy!
Microsoft made the Xbox for gaming to take market share from PS2 and the others. Ballmer, that is not Apple.
Remember the iPod killer, the Zune. It wasn’t a turn key system that any wanted. Remember the Windows mobile OS and that Apple’s iPhone did not have a chance.
If you PC and device people are not innovative enough to be in a market before Apple, you haven’t got a prayer. If you are than you better not stop innovating or Apple may take it too.
Another indirect benefit to using the A4 Apple processor: can’t be easily compared (e.g. MHz, cores, etc) to other competing devices.
I think they’re waiting for someone to order 5 million of them at $670 each. Then they can order the parts from China.
But one really has to ask the question – WHY?
Take a look at it carefully. The Windows/PC/Geekblogger/Anal-lyst love this POS. It’s got all the bullet points for their bragging needs.
USB/VGA/Windows/Removable Battery/Camera/Card Reader.
It will run like crap with Windows POS 7 and 3.5 battery life, but thats okay. The Windows/PC/GeekBloggers/Anal-lyst, are just creaming when they get to list off the featured useless checklist to their friends. It’s like who’s penis is bigger syndrome with these guys. lol
LOOK AT ALL THOSE PORTS!!!! This baby is sure to be a huge success. Because people want moar ports.
Who would buy this thing? Does it have a removable battery? What about expandable memory? Sd card slot? No one will buy this thing . . . It doesn’t even have a built in keyboard. What if I want to upgrade the graphics card? Where is the floppy drive?!?!
Pshhh . . .
Serial port? Where’s the parallel port?
I never went for the bullet list of features because my penis was always bigger.
finally, my registry editing dreams have come true, and quite the looker to boot!
The only design cues it seems to be taking are that the screen is rectangular and the corners are rounded, which is pretty much a given of any device anywhere. Design cues such as making it look nice, making it light, making it nice to hold etc are noticeably lacking.
Endgadget was touting the MS vaporware, MS courier
You can see the serial port and the parallel port if you look next to the SCSI.
A VGA port???
I cannot believe it doesn’t come with any OS for that price – $180 EXTRA for Windows Vista or 7! If Apple wins the ‘multi-touch patent war’ and purchases most of the world’s SSD RAM supplies, then these prices will go up even more.
O.M.G
The WinZealots truly don’t get it.
Yo!
MS Weenies?
PUHLEEZEEE report front and center to the 80’s, you’re sorely missed.
(what a hideous piece of dung!)
3.5 hours? That will barely get most college students through 4 classes, not to mention having to find a plug to recharge when not in class.
A card reader and single USB port might be a good idea for future models of iPad though, so people can back up iWork and other documents via either SD card or flash drive when they’re away from their home WiFi network.
But can I listen to Pandora while I hook it up to my 14″ Packard-Bell monitor?
“Runs Windows 7 with multi-touch”
If that’s true, then Apple’s next lawsuit target is Ezy Tablet PC or Microsoft, whomever put multi-touch on Windows 7.
I can’t imagine how slow that thing must be. Windows 7 is a dog on a netbook, now you’re going to layer multi-touch on it? Booting up will be completed . . . tomorrow. Ouch.
It’s good to see that Apple was awarded the patent for ‘Electronic Devices with Form Factor, Appeal, and Quality User Experience’ It’s even better to see the PC manufacturers staying well clear of anything that could be construed as a violation of said patent.
Salivating over it. I cancel my iPad order.
MW: “called” as in “the ’90s called and want all their ports back”.
Without a floppy drive, it’s going to fail in the PC world