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Mike Elgan

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November 19, 2007 - 6:07 P.M.

New leaked docs reveal Dell tablet PC ship date, specs

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SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. -- Dell's first-ever Tablet PC looks like a winner, if newly leaked internal documents are accurate.

Dell's Jeff Clarke first demonstrated a prototype back in May.

About a month ago, a smattering of specifications on the device leaked. But on a blog posting dated tomorrow, much more detailed specifications on the device have been published, along with new ship dates for various countries and regions. (Note that this information is unconfirmed, and should be considered rumor.)

According to the post, the Latitude XT will ship in the Americas December 3.

The post claims that the tablet PC will be powered by a 1.2 GHz Intel Core2 Duo Ultra Low Voltage processor; 1-3 GB of RAM; an ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 video card; and 256 MB of UMA memory plus variable HyperMemory. The tablet will have three USB 2.0 ports, but just one that supplies power. It'll also have a range of media bay options.

Best of all, it will come with a choice of Wi-Fi options and two mobile broadband options.

The tablet also sports Bluetooth, SD card, RJ-45, Firewire and microphone/headset support.

Buyers will be able to choose from any of three battery options, including a 9-cell High-capacity "smart" lithium-ion battery.

It's not clear whether this tablet offering will sport the multitouch user interface Michael Dell demonstrated last week.

Thanks to iStartedSomething

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That thing is a brick - and

Submitted by Try, try again... and when that fails, copy Apple. on November 22, 2007 - 5:37 A.M.

That thing is a brick - and that's in the physical sense - even before windows takes a dive on you solidifying that assessment in the metaphorical sense. Apple Inc. will do the small form factor (and sub-notebook) better (with multi-touch input such as is used in the iPhone and iPod touch... that dell thing has a stylus? in the 21st century?! pfff) with far superior Unix Mac OS X in January. How is the windows tablet pc market doing anyways? Revolutionized computing yet as predicted by microsoft in 2002? How about those terrific UMPC's that the windows world thought would take off and be so uber cool that users would wear the things like necklaces? Yeah, I thought not. Birds of a feather, Mike Elgan: http://www.roughlydrafted.com/page/2/

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its a pleasure to work with

Submitted by Andy Robert on January 4, 2008 - 2:09 P.M.

its a pleasure to work with verticity

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well sounds are good. I

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Thick

Submitted by Seth Weintraub on November 20, 2007 - 2:57 A.M.

Man, that thing looks kinda thick. Bigger than I would expect to see in a tablet anyway.

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"The Phantom Game Service software was originally engineered to run on a Windows XP embedded operating system as a standalone configuration managed by our service and content servers," noted Greg Koler, President and CEO of Phantom Entertainment. "We intend to modify our software to run in the user-controlled PC environment.

"We expect the Phantom Game Service PC client software will be ready during the first quarter of 2007," Koler said. "This move will enable the Company to license the Phantom Game Service technology to well- established manufacturers of PCs and digital home entertainment centers. "The Company remains committed to its original mission of delivering the first end-to-end, on-demand game service. Our course has been altered to deliver this service to PCs as well as to entertainment centers in the comfort of the living room."

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