14 DAY TRIAL // Toshiba has unveiled today their Port?g? M700 Tablet PC series, company's first Tablet PC to feature an intelligent touchscreen. The tablet's display is capable of distinguishing the presence of the bundled digital pen or a human fingertip and adjusts the input method accordingly. Should the device detect both digital pen and the fingertip simultaneously, the digital pen prevails.
The tablet PC's display is coated with an anti-glare layer to enhance the visual output of the touch screen in a broad spectrum of environments and lighting modes, either artificial or natural. The display is a widescreen 12.1-inch WXGA panel that is alleged to offer up to 30 percent more detail than any other XGA display technology.
"Toshiba's Port?g? M700 Tablet PC provides mobile professionals with an exceptionally intuitive Tablet PC to meet their mobile computing needs", said Jeff Barney, vice president of marketing, Digital Products Division, Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. "Building upon many years of successful Toshiba Tablet PC platforms, the Port?g? M700 incorporates our customer's most requested features resulting in Toshiba's most powerful and versatile Tablet PC to date."
The platform is built around the Intel Centrino Pro processor1 technology including Intel Core 2 Duo Processors, Intel 965 Express chipset, Intel Wireless Wi-Fi Link 4965AGN supporting draft 802.11n3, and Intel Active Management Technology (AMT 2.6). The Ultra SlimBay included in the Tablet PC allows the users to extend the original configuration to match their expectations. The Tablet also provides support for an internal optical drive or another hard disk drive, which minimizes the hassle of permanently carrying another external storage medium.
The Tablet PC is rigged against a plethora of dangers floating over the notebooks and tablet PCs. Since the hard-disk drive is one of the most sensitive components of a tablet PC as well as of a notebook, Toshiba implemented the 3D accelerometer that is supposed to detect the acceleration caused by a sudden fall from multiple directions. This new technology rapidly removes he HDD head from between the HDD platters and protects the platters' integrity.
The keyboard is spill resistant and can take noticeable quantities of coffee or soda with no severe consequences over the Tablet PC's integrity. The same system will spare the user the need to power down the unit in the event such spills occur.
The Port?g? M700 Series is priced at $1,800 and can be momentarily purchased from the producer's website only.