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Microsoft’s Courier vs. Apple’s iPad Tablet: Who Wins?

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Courier VS iPad

Microsoft’s Courier vs. Apple’s iPad Tablet: Who Wins? – While people are going gaga over leaked photos and videos of Microsoft’s Courier tablet, and whispering about Steve Jobs working nonstop to launch the iPad tablet, another viable tablet has been slipping under the radar. The Archos 9 tablet will hit store shelves this month, running a full version of Windows 7. The panel critiques the specs on this early entry, talks timetables for both the Courier and iPad, and speculates about what kind capabilities all three tablets will need to have to make it in this fickle market.

The Archos 9: What Apple’s iPad Should Be

Archos 9 PC Tablet

Archos makes the best multi-media players that no one knows about. I know a number of folks who own one of the predecessors to the Archos 9, and everyone loves them. But, unlike the iPod, few people outside of loyal users ever seem to hear about Archos. That being said, after looking at the Archos 9, it sets the bar for what the iPad needs to be when it comes out early next year.

Archos 9 PC Tablet


Archos 9pctabletPint-sized keyboards may make netbooks more useful device for note-taking, essay-writing, IM-addicted travelers, but if all you’re looking to do is surf and watch episodes of Arrested Development, that keyboard starts to a look like extra weight. Archos has hacked it off for its own take on the netbook, dubbed the 9pctablet, which takes small and slim to new extremes.

The device weighs only 1.7 pounds and measures only 0.63 inches thick, yet has room for a full slate of PC hardware, including an Intel Atom Z515 processor running at 1.2GHz, an 80GB hard drive, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and even a DVB-T tuner and antennas for (mostly European) countries that broadcast television in that standard.

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