Suddenly tablets are everywhere. No, they haven’t started shipping yet, but they will in the coming months. And Toshiba, like every other PC maker, wants a piece of the action. The company has announced its plans to launch a whole line of slate PCs.
The netbook revolution began when Asus launched a series of consumer-oriented low cost mini-laptops in the latter half of 2007. HP followed suit six months later and soon every main stream PC maker was building netbooks.
So if 2008 and 2009 were the years of netbooks, 2010, it seems, is going to be the year of tablets. Apple’s iPad certainly is the most interesting of these devices but other companies like HP, MSI, Lenovo and Asus have also announced plans to releases tablets. Now Toshiba has joined the fray. In fact, Toshiba isn’t releasing one or two tablets but a whole line later this year or early next year. The company hasn’t revealed a lot of details, but these could be x86 based tablets running Windows or OS X and ARM based tablets running Linux, Chrome or Android.
The netbook revolution began when Asus launched a series of consumer-oriented low cost mini-laptops in the latter half of 2007. HP followed suit six months later and soon every main stream PC maker was building netbooks.
So if 2008 and 2009 were the years of netbooks, 2010, it seems, is going to be the year of tablets. Apple’s iPad certainly is the most interesting of these devices but other companies like HP, MSI, Lenovo and Asus have also announced plans to releases tablets. Now Toshiba has joined the fray. In fact, Toshiba isn’t releasing one or two tablets but a whole line later this year or early next year. The company hasn’t revealed a lot of details, but these could be x86 based tablets running Windows or OS X and ARM based tablets running Linux, Chrome or Android.
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