Tablets are a hot property right now, but which tablet should you buy? We’ve assembled the specifications for 31 different tablets so you can compare. Update: Now with Toshiba’s newly announced tablets.
The Toshiba AT100 (Thrive) was big and fat. The Thrive 7 trimmed down a bit, but it was still pretty beefy. That’s why we were surprised when we saw the new Excite series and our reaction was, “Oh sweetie! What, you don’t eat?”
Windows 7 based tablets haven’t taken off quite the way that Microsoft probably wishes they had, and it’s clear that Windows 8 — and especially with the WOA initiative — aims to take tablets on head first. Toshiba’s latest tablet is still only a Windows 7 model at launch– will that be enough?
I loathe self-service checkouts at supermarkets. Not because I want to hang around there for the fun of it, but simply because they’re so incredibly inefficient, especially if you’re dealing with items that never had barcodes, such as fruit and vegetables. A new scanner from Toshiba might fix my woes, as it omits barcodes and just works out what it is you’re holding in front of it.
There’s still no sign of that paperless office we’ve been promised. So Toshiba is striving for a less-paper office instead with a copier that uses special toner that can be completely erased, letting the paper be re-used.
Besides the elderly gentleman paying in gold coins, the biggest holdup at supermarket checkouts is the cashier finding an item’s barcode and properly scanning. So Toshiba has developed a faster camera-based system that recognises the food, packaged or fresh.
JB Hi-Fi’s doing a deal on Toshiba’s AT100 10.1″ tablet for $398; while the Toshiba doesn’t have the pure appeal of something like a Galaxy Tab or Transformer Prime, it’s a decent enough tablet, especially if you’ve got need of its USB ports. [JB Hi-Fi]
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.
Toshiba’s Excite X10 Tablet is only 7.62mm thin and 0.53kg, but it comes with a heavy price tag of $US530 for the 16GB version and $US600 for the 32GB version. While not dissimilar in pricing strategy with the iPad, it still costs $US130 more than the Sony Tablet S and other similar Android tablets. It seems like a price drop is inevitable here.
