Samsung Series 7 XE700T1A-A01US 11.6-Inch Slate (64 GB, Win 7 HP)

by Samsung

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 11.7 x 7.2 x 0.5 inches ; 1.9 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B005OUQ9JC
• Item model number: XE700T1A-A01US
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #433 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2011

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

A lightweight slate computer with full PC capabilities running Windows 7, the Samsung Series 7 Slate PC (model XE700T1A-A01US) offers all of the features of a full-sized laptop in an extremely portable package, providing highly mobile users with the computing power they need for maximum productivity anywhere they go.

The full-powered Samsung Series 7 Slate PC
with Intel Core i5 dual-core processor and
Windows 7 Home Premium (view larger).

 

Great for sharing presentations on the go.

 

Optional dock and keyboard create a desktop PC experience (view larger).

Weighing less than two pounds and measuring only half an inch thick, the Series 7 Slate can truly be taken anywhere. Despite its compact size, the Slate is a full-powered PC with an 11.6-inch screen, powerful Intel Core i5 dual-core processor, a full version of Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, and a 64 GB solid state hard drive.

In addition to being easy to transport, its sleek, slim design and elegant detailing will turn heads everywhere--from the boardroom to the train on your commute home.

With up to seven hours of battery life, the Series 7 Slate ensures an all day connection for optimal productivity while on-the-go. Additionally, this Series 7 Slate includes award-winning Intel Wireless Display functionality.

Key Features

A Full PC in a Sleek Form Factor Samsung Series 7 slate PCs offer the power and speed of a full-size PC, yet they're a mere half-inch thick and weigh less than a pound. They're an amazing marriage of power and design.

Run Your Favorite Software The Windows 7 OS allows you to run all your favorite office software. You can share documents with co-workers without any compatibility issues. And Samsung's touch interface gives you easy, instant access to all your programs.

Fast Start You'll never have to wait for this computer to boot up. Press the power button, and it wakes instantly. Press it again, and it goes into a hybrid sleep mode.

Superior Screen Quality Samsung is the world's largest manufacturer of LCD panels, and its Superbright Plus technology gives you a brilliant 400-nit screen (twice as bright as many traditional PCs) and stunning range of color (up to 16 million colors). The wide 170 degree viewing angle makes it easy to view content from anywhere, as well as to display materials to friends and colleagues.

Optional Bluetooth Keyboard and Dock For those times when you prefer a traditional keyboard, an optional Bluetooth keyboard is available. And an optional dock lets you quickly and easily connect to an external monitor, printer, MP3 player, camera, and other USB devices (both keyboard and dock sold separately).

 

Fully Mobile, Fully Powered

You can quickly type using the on-screen keyboard and navigate through the slate's features with the highly responsive capacitive multi-touch screen, or write naturally on the screen using an electromagnetic pen, making it easy to take meeting notes, create documents and reports in Microsoft Office 2010, or browse online. An integrated microphone and dual 2-megapixel (front) and 3-megapixel (rear) cameras can record audio/visual files, which can be stored and shared via the full-sized USB port or Wi-Fi.

Easy input with included stylus (view larger).

 

Easy input with included stylus (view larger).

The Series 7 features Samsung's exclusive FastStart technology, which enables the slate to transition from a hybrid sleep mode to full functionality in two to three seconds, enabling you to quickly jump into work or play anywhere. Samsung's touch interface helps to streamline your life by providing seamless access to applications used every day such as Facebook, Twitter, maps and media content.

Effortless Connectivity

Samsung's exclusive Easy Settings make it effortless to connect the Series 7 Slate to new wireless networks, projectors and more by giving you easy access to commonly used PC settings, resulting in stress-free business travel and presentations. Samsung Easy Migration allows you to seamlessly transfer existing files by connecting their old PC to the Series 7 Slate, launching and starting Easy Migration and letting the PC do the rest.

Powerful Dual-Core Processing

The 1.6 GHz low-voltage Intel Core i5-2467M dual-core processor provides smart performance with a speed boost (2.3 GHz with Turbo Boost Technology; 3 MB L3 cache). It also includes Intel's Hyper-Threading Technology enables each core of your processor to work on two tasks at the same time, delivering the performance you need for smart multitasking.

 

Intel Wireless Display Capable

With integrated Intel Wireless Display technology, you'll be able to cut down on the cluttered mass of wires surrounding your work station and stop crowding around your laptop screen to enjoy vivid pictures, video and other content. You'll enjoy great image clarity and sound without sacrificing quality and without wires. Simply connect an optional adapter for Intel Wireless Display (such as the Netgear Push2TV PTV2000 and Belkin ScreenCast adapters) to your TV, follow a few simple steps, and you're off and running. Set it up once, and sharing your screen is as easy as pushing a button.

PowerPlus Battery Technology

A battery designed for the long haul, the Samsung PowerPlus technology gives you more years and more hours. This technology retains 80 percent of the original battery capacity for up to 1,000 charges. After three years of use you still have a battery that still works for you day in and day out. That's power when you need it.

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Key Specifications 11.6-inch Superbright Plus display with 1366 x 768 resolution for native HD 720p viewing (400 nit brightness) 1.6 GHz Intel Core i5-2467M dual-core processor (2.3 GHz with Turbo Boost Technology; 3 MB L3 cache) 64 GB solid-state drive (SSD) delivers quicker boot-ups, faster application launches and overall enhanced performance 4 GB of installed DDR3 RAM (maximum) Intel HD Graphics 3000 for casual and mainstream gaming (supports Microsoft DirectX 10). 2-megapixel front webcam 3-megapixel rear webcam Built-in stereo speakers (3 watts total; 1.5W x 2) Up to 7 hours of battery life Dimensions and Weight: 11.66 x 7.24 x 0.51 inches (WxDxH); 2.04 pounds

Wireless & Networking Wireless-N Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n) for ultra-fast connectivity to home and business networks (requires Wireless-N router to optimize speed and range). Intel Wireless Display capabilities enables you to wirelessly stream videos, photos and music from your hard drive, home network, or the internet straight to your HDTV. Next-generation Bluetooth 3.0 connectivity provides faster throughput while minimizing on power requirements. It's compatible with new Bluetooth 3.0-enabled devices as well as backward compatible with older Bluetooth-enabled peripherals such as printers and cell phones. Gigabit Ethernet (10/100/1000) Connectivity & Expansion One USB 2.0 ports U-HDMI port for connecting to a compatible HDTV or home theater receiver for uncompressed digital audio and video via a single cable. MicroSD memory card slot Docking station connector

What's in the Box:

XE700T1A-A01US Slate PC

System Software Media (DVD-Rom)

System Recovery Media (Win7 HPR, DVD-Rom)

Samsung PC Accessory Leaflet

Samsung Packaging Take-Back Program Sheet

Stop Return Sheet

Warranty Information Sheet

Microsoft Get Started Guide

Quick Start Guide

Essential Guide

Safety Instruction

Cleaning Cloth

Power Cord

Power Adapter

Digitizer Pen

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Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium

The Best Entertainment Experience On Your PC

Windows 7 Home Premium makes it easy to create a home network and share all of your favorite photos, videos, and music. You can even watch, pause, and rewind TV or record it to watch whenever and wherever you want. For the best entertainment experience, choose a PC with Windows 7.

Peek behind open windows to get a quick look at your desktop (see larger image).

Windows 7: Your PC Simplified

Simplifies everyday tasks, works the way you want, and makes new things possible.

• Improved desktop navigation features like Snap, Peek, and Shake, make it easier to manage all of your open windows.
• Creating a home network has never been easier. You can even share files and printers with all the PCs with Windows 7 on the network.
• Find virtually anything on your PC--from documents to songs to email--just by typing a word or two with Windows Search.
• Designed to make your PC sleep and resume quicker.
• Watch, pause, rewind and record TV with Windows Media Center to watch whenever and where ever you want*.

 

Create, Connect and Share with Windows Live

Windows 7 and Windows Live bring it all together for free. Get the free set of programs that make it simple to create and share amazing photos and movies, organize mail, and stay connected with your closest friends.

• Get 25 GB of free online storage with Windows Live SkyDrive.
• Sync files on your PCs automatically with Windows Live Mesh.
• Share photos during video chats with Windows Live**
• Easily edit photos and combine the best parts of multiple photos into one perfect photo with Photo Fuse.

Windows Live is available for free at download.live.com.

Complete your PC Experience with Microsoft Office 2010

• Microsoft Office Starter 2010 includes reduced functionality versions of Microsoft Word and Excel with advertising. (Note that PowerPoint or Outlook are not included.)
• Purchase Office 2010 today and get the most out of your new PC.

* Additional hardware may be required. Not available in all countries. (See windows.microsoft.com/products/windows-7/system-requirements/ for more information.)
** Requires a compatible microphone, speakers or headset, webcam, and broadband connection.

Product Description

A lightweight slate computer with full PC capabilities running Windows 7, the Samsung Series 7 Slate PC (model XE700T1A-A01US) offers all of the features of a full-sized laptop in an extremely portable package, providing highly mobile users with the computing power they need for maximum productivity anywhere they go. Weighing less than two pounds and measuring only half an inch thick, the Series 7 Slate can truly be taken anywhere. Despite its compact size, the Slate is a full-powered PC with an 11.6-inch screen, powerful Intel Core i5 dual-core processor, a full version of Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, and a 64 GB solid state hard drive.

Customer Reviews

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93 of 99 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The best Windows 7 State available, October 25, 2011

By 

Vinh Le - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samsung Series 7 XE700T1A-A01US 11.6-Inch Slate (64 GB, Win 7 HP) (Personal Computers)

(this review is for the 128GB version bought at an MS store, no dock or keyboard)
First a little about myself: I am not a fan boy of anything. I love gadgets but I am not emotionally attached to any brand. I built my own Windows 7 computers, have two ipads, a macbook air, a dell laptop and an iMac. Over the years I have owned 4 different tabletpcs and have been disappointed with each. I toyed with the idea of buy the EP121, but the I heard about the Samsung Slate so I waited. On paper, it seemed like as close to perfect a Windows Tablet as I can hope for before Windows 8 came out. As soon as it hit one of the MS store in LA, I drove 4 hours to get it. Here's my review after 2 days of use. First my biases:
1. I am no longer a student. As a physician, I have long wished for a tablet platform for bedside charting. Unfortunately, the organization I work for invested heavily on a desktop platform so this tablet will be more for taking personal and meeting notes in OneNote and for playing around with drawing and painting programs.
2. I have iPads. While I love them, I am looking for a full windows 7 computer, so I don't expect the kind of eye candy and impeccable touch experience of an iPad.

Out of the box, I am going to give it 5 Stars and I am going to take points off as I go along.
At first glance, this thing screams 5 stars. It's a handsome slab of a tablet. There's a little creak here and there if you hold it in the right places but I am willing to over look that. A bonus point is that the silly Wintel stickers aren't glued down! They are on a peel-away plastic so this will save you the trouble of peeling the gluey mess off later.
The pen is not impressive to hold, with a cheap plastic feel and comes with only one nib. I already knew that the tablet didn't have a pen holder. I thought I didn't care, but immediately lost the thing among all the wrappings and it took several frustrating minutes to find the pen. They could have easily made a small clip or even a hole for a string. Terrible decision to leave this off. I am going to take 0.125 star off just for this.
The power brick is small about the size of a short and chubby candy bar. This is good because I was afraid that it was bigger. So far so good and then I look at the three-prong cord that comes with it. Are you kidding me? Why do you design a small power brick with BIG THICK cord? This is just sloppy, lazy design and ruins the complete experience. I have a macbook air and their power brick and cord are small pieces of art in themselves. This tablet is meant to be ultra portable, the power brick design and cord just ruined it. Another 0.125 star off.
So, before I powered this on. It's now a 4.75-star device.
I went through the typical Windows 7 setup. The UI layer from Samsung is OK, but I figure it's a bonus so I am not going to take any points off.
The screen is awesome. I am the kind of person who likes to turn my iPads, laptops etc to full brightness, but I think I am going to leave the Samsung Slate at 40% because full brightness is just TOO bright.
The ambient light sensor is annoying and I am not sure why they turned it on as default because they are going to get a lot of returns from people who think the flickering screen is defective. Bad decision, but since you can turn it off, no points off.
The pen works as expect even at the edges. Touch seems responsive. At times it confuses pen and touch, I am willing to over look this, as I am sure I will learn to prevent this with experience.
It certainly doesn't have the touch experience of an iPad, but I already knew that. I am hoping windows 8 will improve the experience.
I watched HD netflix and Amazon movies and just couldn't stop smiling.
I have an HDHomerun, an over-the-air broad cast tuner hooked to my router, and I can watch HD TV on this thing! I love it.
The web browsing experience with IE touch or Chrome Touch are not as slick as the iPad (I know, I said I wasn't going to compare this to the iPad), but I love the portrait mode for long pages. And you can use your fingers to pan around. Not bad.
If you know Windows 7, you probably know the handwriting recognition is awesome. The large onscreen keyboard is good enough, but I wish there were audio feedback when you click on the keys. No big deal, no points off.
This slate came preinstalled with Office 2010 starter, but NO OneNote to test it out. Who makes these decisions? For most people, OneNote is why they buy the tablet. I have to uninstall it and reinstall my copy of office 2010. I know OneNote and love it, so no surprise here. The slippery glass surface ruins the feel of the pen. The screen is bright enough that I will add an anti-glare matte later for a better "pen-paper" feel. This is highly subjective so I will not take any points off.
Audio: good enough.
Expansion: points off for microSD. The tablet is big enough, there is room for an SD slot. Points off for no displayport. Points off for only one USB port. 0.125 points off for all these little deficiencies.
And then it happened, blue screen of death after I installed Google Chrome. Was it Chrome's fault? I don't know. Then it happened again, after I tried the nifty Surface Lagoon screen saver. I am paranoid now. Another 0.125 star off for this. I hope this doesn't continue.
So now it's down to 4.5 Stars.
Cameras: I have a question. How come they can put much better cameras on little phones but not on an expensive device with more computing power. The back camera really sucks, and really is not useful for anything. Minus .25 star.
Battery: is it 6 hours as advertised? Maybe, if you turn the brightness down to 30%. Fortunately, this is not a big deal on this bright screen. No star off.
Form factor: 16:9 really needs getting used to. But for me personally, it doesn't affect the way I use it.
Noise: In a quiet room, you can hear it. It's not bad and probably not noticeable in the background noise of a lecture hall or meeting for example.
Heat: a little warm after a while but tolerable, you will learn to ignore it.

Verdict (after two days of use) 4.25 Stars. It's the best available out there until next year.
But there's always next year. Enjoy it now.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What a "slate" was meant to be, November 23, 2011

By 

Bus - See all my reviews

This review is from: Samsung Series 7 XE700T1A-A01US 11.6-Inch Slate (64 GB, Win 7 HP) (Personal Computers)

Ok, here's the thing, I didn't attend the Build conference but I watched the videos, I did a lot of research and put plainly, I wanted this slate and I wanted Windows 8...now. Why? Because it's going to revolutionize computing without actually revolutionizing it. It's an evolution, a next step, an obvious direction but it's so amazing that it has to be revolutionary. Now, I'll try to hold back on blindly talking about Windows 8 with the Slate and just try to focus on the Slate itself but let's be honest, the Slate's hardware...what brings this thing to life is the software so you can't talk about one without mentioning the other. So....

The device itself has a noticeable amount of weight to it. I find myself having to shift around, not a lot but still a noticeable amount but to be fair, I have to do that with a laptop too but a laptop also has a keyboard attached. I've played around with iPads and they (i have no idea if they actually ARE) feel lighter. That being said, it's still awkward to hold something this big in your hand for a couple of hours on the couch without propping it up. Now, I think I've found the perfect position for "my" couch...my wife has her couch, I have mine. I lean back against a pillow or two, kick up the one leg, leave the other extended over the arm of the couch, and lay the slate against my propped up knee. If I'm not doing that, I'm kind of cupping the device (since it's obviously meant to be used in landscape mode) with my left hand (I'm a righty) and using my right hand to interact with the device. That combo seems to work really well...but I'd say that's an issue with slates/tablets in general and not so much with the Series 7 Slate.

A few things I would have liked are another USB slot (I'm amazed this came with 1 though), a full sized SD card and a 3G modem. I've done some research and I think the Build conference models came with 3G built in. I see a slot cover for it but sadly this model/line? doesn't have it. For something that's meant to be portable, I think this is a missing feature. Of course, there are ways to get around this...tether to your phone, use a wifi ap at Starbucks/McDonalds, get a 4g wifi ap and bring it with you, etc so it's not a show stopper but this thing runs windows...if it had a 3g modem (or LTE would be even better...obviously), i could just enable ICS and everyone near me could use my net conection.

As far as the USB connector goes, it's straight forward but that usb cover is a PITA to get out...I think I left a minor scratch removing the stupid thing and just because its such a hassle, I left it off as I use the USB constantly anyways for my Plantronics Bluetooth headset combo. The memory card slot seems to work ok. I haven't looked into pricing on cards but I expect that I will soon just because the space gets eaten up quickly with random things that you just seem to generate over time. Of course, I have enough space now...but what about in a year or two?

The speed...nice and quick. Boots quick. Restarts quick. Resumes quick. It's quick. The Core i5/SSD combo really pays off on this device as it's snappy. That being said, if you're watching videos...the back will get toasty. It won't burn you, but you'll notice it and you'll hear a slit whirring noise from the fan (ejects air veritcally above top of tablet). If every slate that comes out featured this combo along with the incredibly snappy Win8, these things will sell like crazy. I'm running Win8, spark, bria3 (voip softphone), Zune, Office, browsing the web, etc and everything opens quickly, runs quickly, etc so they've got the right combo with the i5, 4GB of RAM and the SSD. No complaints from me as far as performance.

Power connector. I've been trawling the forums and it's hard to find an extra power supply. I bought a $12 foldup stand thingy from Amazon and it'd be nice to leave the charger with it. I passed on the official dock. The only advantages are RJ45, a dedicated power port (no supply), HDMI and I think audio...totally not worth $100. I'm also hearing about the screen raising from the bezel a bit and i suspect it may be related to that dumb dock putting pressure on the bottom of the screen but I'm not sure. The stand I bought provides tons of support evenly across the bottom and the back of the slate so I recommend it. It's $12, just search for "iPad stand" and you can't miss it. I think it's got a 5 star rating with 450 reviews...

HDMI, haven't used it. Headset jack, use it all the time for streaming music using Zune. Bluetooth, sync perfectly with my Microsoft 6000 keyboard and mobile mouse, no problems there. Wifi signal seems to be pretty good, decent signal strength and reliability (often a problem with mobile devices). The auto rotation works really well (better in win8 than win7 - once you load the sensor drivers). It's nifty.

Battery. If I'm not using bluetooth and just browsing the web, checking stuff out, listening to some tunes and watching the random video...I get 3.5-4 hours which is fine for me. I end work around 5pm, I have no kids so I lounge around until 9 or 10 so when I go to bed, I charge it up. When i wake up, I dock it so it's charging all day. I have, in my situation, no issues with the battery. Now, on an extended flight or a long trip, that could be a problem so take it into account.

There are some Win7 specific things that I can't touch on because well, I didn't use it win7...what's the point? Win7 is not a touch OS. You can shoehorn functionality into it but at it's heart, it's not meant for slates which leads me to win8 :-) There are some things you should know:

1. Win8 is not ready for everyone. At this point (11/2011), it's just avaible as a dev preview. It's buggy, not all of the apps work, you have no way to load more "metro" apps other than to build your own or download source code and compile. It's a test version and it's not ready for general consumption yet.

2. I'm an IT Consultant. I have a Core i7 with 6GB RAM, Radeon 6970 with 3x24" HP LA2405wg monitors. It's not the best but its pretty darn good but I have a Lenovo Core i3 laptop with hinges that seem to get looser by the day (no offense to Lenovo, as far as laptops go, they build some of the best) and an HTC Arrive (/me hearts WinPhone7). This slate is meant to replace my laptop and for the last 3 weeks...it has and then some.

3. Driver support and application compatibility. It's an issue. Windows 8 isn't out yet so not everyting works with it. Finding and installing the drivers for this slate with win8 wasn't that bad of a hassle as long as you do some research (install everything in compatibility mode, etc). Some things, like VZAccess, DisplayLink monitors, etc simply will not work (i'm working on VZAccess...that ones important to me) but many thing simply will work once you figure out the process.

4. Windows 8 has 2 modes... Desktop and Metro. Desktop is your normal windows experience. Metro is your tablet/slate experience. It's like WinPhone7 but better because of course the screen is larger and it's meant to be developed for with flexibility in mind. WinPhone's have to be strictly bound to a set of design ideals because of the form factor. Slates/tablets/desktops are much more flexible so the developers will have a lot of leeway with how they design their apps but there is still going to be some consistancy to how they function in Metro mode. So, metro mode = finger friendly, desktop mode = legacy and keyboard/mouse. You can of course use touch in desktop and k/m in metro but who really wants to?

So here's how I use my device...

When I'm on the couch, I use metro and switch to desktop apps if I have too (Office, Zune) because there aren't any metro equivalents yet (win8 isn't released, there's no appstore yet (there is a tile for it though) but there will be when win8 comes out so metro will get much more usable). Apps that were developed for WinPhone7 can be easily imported back into Metro on Win8 so there should be a huge amount of apps available immediately or shortly after Win8 comes out. That being said, you can fall back to your old traditional applications in Windows Desktop until the Metro equivalents come out so you're not completely SOL. I found myself to be content with what I had in front of me...I mean, most of what i do when I'm on the couch is browse and IE Metro was up to the task and then some. It was easy to open new tabs, type the url's, browse normal (non-mobile) websites...pinch to zoom works perfectly...nice and fluid. Actually, nice and fluid pretty much describes metro mode in a nutshell on this slate. I haven't run into a single performance issue other than graphics. This could be corrected by updated drivers but if I leave the Zune software running in its graphical mode on the desktop, switch to IE Metro and browse the web, IE Metro starts to stutter a bit when scrolling. Again, I think that'll be eliminated when Win8 full comes out so I'm not concerned...just minimize Zune and the rendering speeds will return to normal.

Now, when I'm not on the couch is where the flexibility of this device and win8 really shines. I "dock" the slate with the stand and use Mouse without Borders to turn the slate into a virtual screen on my main pc. I launch my chat software, softphone, etc on the slate and do my work on the primary monitors. I can drag and drop files between the two devices, share a single keyboard and mouse on them, etc and then when I'm leaving to go somewhere, undock the slate and bring it with me wherever I go (meeting, client, lunch, etc). I have a laptop case that I fit the S7 into (the S7 is in a sleeve too), along with a BT keyboard, mouse, headset, etc and if I need to setup to do some REAL work, I can. I put the... Read more ›

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Windows 8 from MS BUILD Conference, October 23, 2011

By 

John H. Ptasznik "Computer Geek" (Royal Oak, MI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samsung Series 7 XE700T1A-A01US 11.6-Inch Slate (64 GB, Win 7 HP) (Personal Computers)

I received this tablet at MS Build conference, but it is the same device.
I rated this device 4 instead 5 for a couple of factors.
1. The hardware build quality is excellent, but the windows button being placed in the middle of widest side makes it awkward to use. This may be more to prevent litigation with Apple, but still an annoyance.
2. The battery life is at best 5 hours unless you go crazy with the power management settings.

I also received the dock, bluetooth keyboard, and stylus with it. These are extremely valuable as they make it almost a laptop replacement. I have very large fingers and found the keyboard very easy to use. What is so great about the keyboard it is the same width as the tablet and the sleeve we got at the conference is big enough that I can put the tablet, keyboard, and stylus all in it.

The performance of this tablet is very good. The touch screen is very responsive and has a natural feel to it. I have an iPad 1 and it is has the same great feel. The USB port on the side was very valuable over the last month as I have had to download some things over the 3G that is built in since the local network was restricted. Since it only has a 64 GB internal SD Drive it is nice to have the micro SD card.

Bottom line is that if you are considering a netbook or low end laptop then this may be just what you are looking for.

The real potential of this device lies in Windows 8. I am running the developer preview of Windows 8 and the Metro interface they introduced with Windows Phone 7 is so natural and fluid. This coming from an iPad owner and fan. They kept saying at the developer conference was they wanted Windows 8 and this tablet to be "Fast and Fluid" and they achieved their goal. Having said that Windows 8 is definitely for the techie community and has some bumpy spots, but come release day they will have a very competitive product with IOS and Android.