14 DAY TRIAL // NEC's recent releases have mostly stuck to the display and projector market segments, but the company is again showing just how varied its portfolio is by announcing a tablet PC.
Amidst the flood of ARM-based tablets, with or without the Android operating system, that have been coming out over the past year, some so-called Wintel slates have cropped up from time to time as well.
Wintel stands for the combination of Microsoft's Windows OS (Windows 7 Home Premium in this case) and a processing platform from Intel, usually Intel Atom, though other CPUs have been used occasionally.
It is this second sort of product that NEC has now completed, according to this particular report, although availability won't come immediately.
Indeed, if anyone wished to get their hands on this new product, they will have to wait until next month, October sixth to be more precise.
Even then, sales will only be carried out in Japan, and there is no telling when, if ever, other countries are to receive it (no price was given).
That said, the product bears the name of LaVie Touch and uses an Intel Atom Z670 central processing unit (Oak Trail) as the item around which everything else revolves.
This CPU comes with a clock speed of 1.5 GHz and is backed up by 2 GB of RAM (random access memory).
For storage purposes, NEC threw in a 64 GB SSD, as well as an SDHC card slot and, though they can be used for other things as well, two USB 2.0 ports (for flash drives and the like).
Meanwhile, the 10.1-inch IPS display has a native resolution of 1,280 x 800 pixels and, of course, touch support.
Other specifications include Bluetooth 2.1, a 1.3 megapixel webcam, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, HDMI, integrated graphics and a battery that can keep everything running for up to 10.6 hours on a single charge, all inside a 750g frame measuring 263 x 183 x 15.8 mm.