Samsung ATIV smart PC offers customers the blend of PC capability with the convenient tablet form factor.
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Analysts describe Surface as straddling the line between tablet and PC by featuring a tablet form with a multi-touch keyboard and USB port.
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The AMD Z-60 is AMD's lowest power APU, delivering unprecedented performance and AMD AllDayTM power for tablet form factors as thin as 10mm.
Tablet mode avails the Razer Edge with multi-touch capabilities for full Windows 8 applications, movies and music playback, in a traditional tablet form factor.
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Next, focus on tablet form factor, with a processor called Temash.
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Microsoft offered the tablet form factor in 2003- I had one.
From different operating systems such as Android, iOS, and MS, to an ever growing diversification of mobile device and screen sizes in tablet to mini-tablet form.
When we inquired about what was so appealing about the tablet form factor, McNierney's answer was simple: tablets have a lower cost and lower power requirements.
The initiative inspired several advances in laptop technology, in terms of features (flash memory instead of a spinning hard-drive), design (a laptop-to-tablet form and a waterproof keyboard) and price reductions.
But with competitors already bringing smaller tablet form factor products to market at more affordable prices, it seems likely that Apple will respond rather than sit on the sidelines as other companies look to beat it in a market that it helped create if not re-create.
The smartphone and tablet app will form part of efforts to commemorate the Clearances in Strath of Kildonan.
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She continues to run the Huffington Post, which this summer is launching a long-form tablet magazine and a streaming news network.
That functionality out-of-the-box is prevalent in any of the Razer Edge's modes, as the tablet offers a myriad of form factors.
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It's also said to run Windows 8 -- make no mistake, this is a PC in the form of a tablet.
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"We are now forging ahead to form a Chinese Tablet Alliance with several major Chinese partners both in the horizontal and vertical market segments to further develop, build and market this timely tablet, " added Sim.
This is why my tablet experience, in its current form, can never replace my laptop experience.
And now, AAI has unveiled a new tool for battlefield commanders in the form of giant touchscreen tablet.
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All the existing Kindle Fire tablet apps, in a smaller form factor (and with a focus on portrait mode) should be enough.
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Meanwhile, in another part of the forest, Microsoft was launching the first computer it has ever made in the form of its Surface tablet.
The touch-enabled Eee PC model(s) could come in the form of a convertible tablet although Shen wouldn't specify -- he only promised more details in Q1, presumably at CES. Unsurprisingly, ASUS has no plans to put Vista onto Eee PCs at all.
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Tablets, similarly, are beginning to converge on features, size and form factors, although the tablet category lags smartphones by a couple years.
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If you recall, we knew a year ago that Fujitsu was working on a tablet that could scan the palm as a form of authentication, but we've never actually seen a finished product, or even a functioning prototype.
But these two companies still form a small fraction of the larger tablet market, which is mainly dominated by the iPad.
These experiences are made possible, in part, through app-cessories, sensors and other devices particularly suited to the form factor and user interface of a tablet.
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There surely has to be something other than this to put Salesforce ahead of Amazon, which has just totally disrupted publishing and is taking on all comers in the tablet market as well as driving a wholly new form of business around cloud labor.
Moving forward, Intel will instead focus its efforts on creating form factor reference designs for the Ultrabook, tablet and desktop markets.
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But while Apple created the modern tablet market, its dominance was not assured with a single form factor.
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