At CES TabletKiosk introduced a new line of Tablet PCs with the Sahara i412T, i420T, and i440D. And I think they’re some of the best slates ever, especially the i440D. This is the one I saw last year at the TabletKiosk Demo Days but couldn’t talk about.
All three models feature a slick-looking white chassie with rounded corners and eight buttons on the front. They also have a biometric finger print reader and a 12.1″ XGA (1024×768) resolution screen with wide angle viewing. the i412T and i420T use a touch screen rather than an active digitizer which is rare for tablets, but common for the Sahara line. The i440D features both the touch screen and the active digitizer. You switch between them with a switch on the side of the unit. I asked why they didn’t use an automatic switching mechanism and the answer I got was that this way saved them a lot of money on the cost of the unit, which helps keep the price low. The two 440 models have a Core Duo processor and all of the support up to 2GB of RAM and a 160 GB hard drive. They also have WiFi and Bluetooth, but no 3G cellular.
Another interesting feature, and unique to the Saharas as far as I know, is that you can get them with Windows Vista, Windows XP, or Linux pre-installed. It’s nice to have that choice, although personally I wouldn’t hesitate for a moment before choosing Vista. And they’ll run Aero Glass very nicely.
I’ve been thinking for a while now that my next tablet would be a slate and as of right now, my choice would be the i440T from TabletKiosk. It is a gorgeous, very full-featured tablet and the only thing I’d change would be to up the screen resolution to something higher than XGA. I really hope I can get my hands on one of these sometime soon.
Link to TabletKiosk - Tablet PCs, Ultra-Mobile PCs and Custom Computing Solutions
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