Toshiba launches new Tablet PC
By Keith Shaw, NetworkWorld.com, 03/18/05
Toshiba this week launched a new Satellite notebook, the R15-S822, its third-generation convertible notebook aimed at mainstream users. The R15-S822 starts at $1,599, and is available now through the Toshiba Direct Web site.
The convertible nature of the notebook means people can use it with a keyboard in a traditional notebook sense, or rotate the screen and fold it down and use as a Tablet PC with a digital pen for input and control, Toshiba says. The notebook has a 14.1-inch XGA display and offers an 8.5- by 11-inch writing and viewing area while in the Tablet PC mode.
Bundled software includes Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, which lets users write and draw on the screen as if they were using a pen and paper, as well as organize and search handwritten notes (including audio notes).
The notebook runs on an Intel Pentium M Processor 7253 (1.6 GHz, 400 MHz front-side bus, 2M-bytes of L2 cache), has an Intel Extreme Graphics 2 card, 512M-bytes of DDR 333 MHz memory (up to 2G-bytes possible), a 60G-byte hard drive, fixed bay CD-RW/DVD drive, 802.11b/g wireless LAN (Intel Pro/Wireless 2200 BG), three USB 2.0 ports, an RGB port, headphone and microphone ports, one Type II PCMCIA card slot, IEEE 1394 port, a V.92 modem, S-video port, Ethernet port, Secure Digital memory card slot and 10/100 Ethernet port.. The notebook weighs 6.12 pounds, and runs on the Windows XP Tablet Edition 2005 operating system.
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