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Apple tablet is Jobs’ micro-management obsession claims WSJ

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Aug 25th 2009 1 Comment

The Apple Tablet rumors had been flagging over the past few days, so it’s handy that the Wall Street Journal has come along with a shot of adrenaline and some interesting suggestions about the scale of Steve Jobs’ involvement. In a piece that has already seen Jobs fire off an email suggesting “much of your information is incorrect”, the paper claims two iterations of the tablet project have been euthanized by the outspoken CEO in recent years; first, because battery life proved unsatisfactory, and second because of “insufficient memory”.

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ASUS 900HA 8.9-inch touchscreen slate mod

By Chris Davies on Monday, Aug 24th 2009 No Comments

We’ve a soft-spot for DIY netbook tablet PC conversions here at SlashGear, so it’s always nice to see a user turn their budget notebook into something a whole lot more interesting. EeeUser forum member Maine_Coon turned his ASUS Eee PC 900HA into a finger-friendly 8.9-inch slate, flipping the display around and adding a touchscreen layer on top.

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Touch Book feedback continues: beta hiccups or unfair critique?

By Chris Davies on Friday, Aug 21st 2009 3 Comments

Yesterday’s news that the Touch Book was reaching pre-order customers’ hands kicked off an interesting conversation with Always Innovating, who felt that our post was unduly negative about what they themselves have admitted is a “beta” product. Our argument was that it’s not just the work-in-progress software that’s raising eyebrows, but some of the design decisions – the unbalanced top section that’s not countered by the keyboard base, variable build quality – as early owner SteveNYC is reporting over at UMPC Portal.

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Genius G-Pen M609X and M712X feature-packed budget graphics tablets

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Aug 20th 2009 No Comments

Genius have followed up their last batch of consumer tablets with a couple of new models, suggesting that they’re offering features you’d usually have to splash out on a high-end Wacom to acquire, but at consumer prices. The Genius G-Pen M609X and G-Pen M712X each support Windows and Mac, and run at 4,000LPI resolution.

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Always Innovating Touch Book gets unboxed; first impressions mixed

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Aug 20th 2009 1 Comment

The first of the Always Innovating Touch Books are reaching pre-order customers, and so we’re seeing the fledgling steps of a new, still-intriguing platform. The company had promised a somewhat spartan launch, and that’s exactly how it seems to be panning out: in the box there’s the Touch Book itself, a stylus, AC adapter and some magnets, and nothing else; no manual, no guidance, nothing.

Update: Always Innovating’s Gregoire tells us the missing manual was an oversight with just a few units; you can also access the user guide here [pdf link].

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Archos Android Internet Tablet event announced for September 15th

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Aug 19th 2009 No Comments

As promised, Archos have announced that they will be holding a press conference on September 15th where star of the show will be their new Android Internet Tablet. The company has also launched AppsLib, a new directory for developers and the Android apps they create for “high-end Android devices”; that site lists development guidelines for the touchscreen device as using a 5-inch WVGA display, with 720p video support, an HDMI output and native OpenGL libraries.

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Two Apple tablets tipped: 6-inch Kindle rival and larger OS X pad

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Aug 19th 2009 No Comments

The idea that an Apple tablet may not arrive in September and may in fact only be forthcoming in early 2010 seems pretty well accepted now, but according to one market research group we should be expecting two devices from the Cupertino company. According to Richard Doherty of the Envisioneering Group, Apple have been working on two prototype tablets: one with a 6-inch touchscreen, which resembles a large iPod touch, and another with a bigger touchscreen.

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Apple Tablet 2010 launch tips continue as “insiders” scorned

By Chris Davies on Friday, Aug 14th 2009 3 Comments

The problem with quoting your “insider” at Apple – or any company for that matter – is that somebody else can come along and quote their own, seemingly higher-placed insider back at you. Daring Fireball’s John Gruber has taken Gizmodo’s Brian Lam to task on some of the Apple Tablet “leaked details” published this week, and the phrase “So Lam’s source is an “insider” but has no idea what the OS is and has the ship date wrong. Sure” gives a good indication of how legitimate he thinks it is.

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Lenovo battery recall impacts six model ranges

By Chris Davies on Friday, Aug 14th 2009 No Comments

Lenovo have issued a battery recall for certain ThinkPad models, which may either throw up "irreparable damage" or "battery cannot be charged" error messages, or simply have unusually low capacity. The issue affects models from the company's ThinkPad T60, T61, R60, R61, X60 and X61 ranges, though only specific batteries for those notebooks.

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Apple Keynote Speech Looms, but Tablet May Still Be Missing [Updated]

By Evan Selleck on Thursday, Aug 13th 2009 No Comments

Two years ago, Apple showed off the iPod Touch at an event much like the one that’s supposedly happening around September 7th, and let’s not forget the remodelling of the iPod Nano. But this time around, the rumor-mill is working in over time, and in standard Apple fashion, they’re not providing any kind of answers yet. They haven’t even cemented the idea of an event, or its exact date. So, what should we expect? A tablet? Something worth far less fanfare?

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