14 DAY TRIAL // Users may be familiar with the ASUS Eee Pad Slider tablet, but they might not know of the possibility that it will use a certain, recently-launched CPU instead of the Tegra 2 SoC as originally planned.
ASUS is one of those companies that has multiple tablet designs on sale, particularly ones with physical keyboards.
Said slates aren't of the convertible tablet PC variety, but genuine media tablets with a detachable or slide-out keyboard.
The Eee Pad Slider is one such product, as it has a keyboard on the back, which can slide forward and hold the tablet itself nearly upright at the same time.
It was unveiled back at CES 2011 and priced last month, along with the Transformer and MeMO Tablets.
Back then, it was stated that the ARM-based NVIDIA Tegra 2 SoC (system-on-chip) platform would be the main building block.
Then, the folks over at Liliputing checked the Intel press page for the Oak Trail Atom line of CPUs and discovered something interesting.
The Eee Pad Slider was listed as powered by the Atom Z670, a certain Oak Trail central processing unit unleashed last week.
This processor has a core clocked at 1.5 GHz (dual-core models are planned), as well as 512 KB of L2 cache.
Not too surprisingly, Intel has since removed the Slider from that particular web page, either because it was a mistake or this info was not supposed to leak out so soon.
For those that want a reminder, the Eee Pad Slider measures 10 inches and has an IPS display with a native resolution of 1,280 x 800 pixels. Android 3.0, otherwise known as Honeycomb OS, is featured.
Back when the Oak Trail processor was unleashed, it was also said that at least 35 tablets have already chosen it. Whether or not this particular, keyboard-equipped device is one of them remains to be seen.