iPad alternative: Pegatron's Window 7-based tablet plans spilled

by Stuff.tv blank  |  Tuesday 3 August 2010
iPad alternative: Pegatron's Window 7-based tablet plans spilled

Pegatron’s top-secret Project Lucid has been photographed, and we have the specifications

An Israeli blog has just posted a few shots of an 11.6in Pegatron called the MasterPad, a tablet that it says is launching in the promised land this month.

Coming in two versions – Wi-Fi and 3G – the new tablet will run on a 1.6GHz Atom processor, fed by 1GB of RAM and packing a 32GB storage tank.

The iPad-botherer will have a five hour battery life, 1.3MP cam, two USB ports (plus mini HDMI for 720p video output) and weigh 850g (or 890g for the 3G edition).

The new tablet, known only by its project name – Lucid – could ship with a variety of configuration options, including 64GB SSD, GPS and a light sensor.

We’ve heard about a couple of new tablets heading our way, but this one – running full-fat Windows 7 – has the potential to blow away the competition.  We’ll reserve judgement until we’ve pawed a production tablet, but it’s the most serious attempt we’ve seen yet on Apple’s tablet dominance.

Excited? Let us know what you think in the comments below…

[Israeli story via Engadget]

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Comments: 3
phenomenon9999
3 August 2010
 What makes the iPad great is the speed it loads. No matter what I see, I feel like the Windows OS takes far too long still to load, shut down, come out of standby. It seems to run on the same specs as a standard netbook and they aren't too great.


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iPad alternative: Gigabyte’s Pegatron Window 7-based tablet plans spilled?
Pegatron’s top-secret Project Lucid has been photographed, and we have the specifications

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oscarcharliezulu
3 August 2010
 This is probably the first and last we'll here of it... a generic atom based Windows 7 tablet with <1 day battery life, one of hundreds that will appear over the coming months.
dweebken
3 August 2010
 My Kindle still does about two weeks between charges with the wireless turned off, and one week with the wireless turned on. Everything else that I wanna do on a mobile platform I already do on either my Android phone (a couple of days battery life) or my netbook pc (8 h battery life). I looked at iPad, but couldn't figure out what on earth I'd use it for that I don't already do for less $ on other platforms. Oh yeah, I had an iPod Touch for a year or so and thought it was the ants pants until Android came along.
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