Toshiba’s AT200 is one of the thinnest 10-inch tablets around. But as we saw at CES, that sleek design comes at a price, which we’ve just discovered for Australia.
With its 10.1-inch screen, 535 gram weight, 16GB SSD and micro HDMI, micro USB 2.0 and micro SD slots, the AT200 is a fairly appealing machine. Today Toshiba has announced that the tablet will be available for $579. Even with Gorilla Glass and a 7.7mm thin body, the fact it’s only running Honeycomb and is priced at the same price point as the iPad doesn’t give us hope for huge sales.
On the upside, it is fairly equivalent to the US price of $US530, once you factor in GST and American sales tax.
Who’s going to buy one?
[Toshiba]
Ash
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 12:22 PMI wonder why they’re not making these devices with USB3.0 ports instead of USB2.0 ports?
MotorMouth
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 12:26 PMI’d imagine it is because either ARM or Android doesn’t support USB 3.0, or maybe both. You have to remember that current tablet/phone OSes are massively stripped down and only support a fraction of the features of a proper OS. Support for stuff like USB 3.0 will probably have to wait for Win8.
Joshua
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 12:29 PMI seriously don’t understand why tablets are still launching with Honeycomb, and phones with Gingerbread.
Cameron
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 12:42 PMWell at least it’s not as bad as the Transformer Prime.
daffy
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 12:42 PMIf it had ICS, Tegra 3 and 32GB and was $499 it might be tempting. I’m sure it’ll get ICS eventually, but why not ship it out-of-the-box?
Astonished Reader
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 11:36 PMSeriously, you will have NO chance of that happening. This could be one of the best tablets around, and yet you want it for pretty much the lowest price you could sell a 10″ tablet?! Your crazy! And the thing your describing would be worth nearly double you’re asking…
Christian
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 1:51 PM3G or no sale…
This is a ‘current’ or going to be superseded model….
a bit late to the party no? or am I missing something?
onemore
Sunday, February 5, 2012 at 5:22 PMJust a comment about the need for 3G. We use Wifi at home but when we travel we use one of our smartphones as a wifi hotspot and then our two tablets, the other mobile & any other device requiring internet access via wifi can operate. This means we only need one data pack to cover all our internet needs & save on the cost of the tablets.
Big Windows
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 3:29 PMNice piece of hardware… Will probably take 6 months or more to upgrade to ICS (or not at all)… Wonder if you can get iOS on it? Damn…
Tas
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 4:03 PMThe hands-on reviews of Toshiba’s current tablets have been pretty dire, particularly in relation to build quality. If Toshiba actually wants a real slice of the tab market, this one will want to be seriously good and significantly cheaper than mentioned.
I have a feeling that flash memory (by way of Sandisk), laptops, and DVD patent royalties will remain Toshiba’s bread, butter – and jam.
By way of the IPad3 or a price reduced IPad2 the public are still going to be eating apple pie instead. Overwhelmingly, crispycrustingly.
Tempt me with price Toshiba.
onemore
Sunday, February 5, 2012 at 5:08 PMWe have an AT100 & a Samsung 10.1 & their operation is almost identical except for screen capture on the 10.1. The accessible ports on the AT100 are much more functional than the single interface on the 10.1(same as IPAD single interface) which require adaptors to use. I can also expand storage by 64G by an SD slot in the case. This new AT200 appears to have these same advantages over other tablets on the market.
Hutch
Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 6:12 PMI’ve got an AT200 and for the most part I’m really happy with it. I’ve had instances of wireless dropouts but it looks like my modem/router may be the cause rather than the tablet. Its light, battery life is good, and for the most part its responsive. Looking forward to ICS but if it doesn’t happen I think I’ll stay happy.