Toshiba’s first Windows tablet with dual-screen

25th June, 2010 by adina
Tags: Dual Screen, News, Notebooks, Toshiba, Windows, Windows 7

Toshiba marked its notebooks’ 25th anniversary with the unveiling of the first dual-touchscreen tablet computer powered by Windows. The Libretto W100 is equipped with twin multi-touch displays, seven-inch sized and with a resolution of 1,024×600, which virtually control the whole Windows 7 interface. One of the displays can either work separately, acting as a keyboard provided with vibration feedback, or as the second display. There also is an accelerometer which allows the users to tilt the tablet on its side in order to read e-books. Underneath, Toshiba’s device resembles more to a real notebook than to a tablet or a netbook.

The tablet is provided with a 1.2GHz Pentium US400 that is fast enough to support the Home Edition of Windows 7. It has 2GB of RAM and also a 62GB solid-state drive. There is still enough room for802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a USB port, a webcam and a large battery with eight cells. Files can be offloaded by using the microSDHC slot. The total weight of the Libretto W100 is only slightly bigger than that of a single-screen tablet which is around 1.8 pounds.

Besides the keyboard, the rest of the interface is purely Windows. The Bulletin Board or ReelTime, the chronological file browser, are some of the custom touchscreen applications present on the tablet.

The Libretto W100 is considered a special edition with a limited number of shipments. Its price for the United States will be $1,099 and it will arrive in August. Toshiba’s tablet PC comes at a critical moment of time for Microsoft and its tablet strategy. Microsoft has canceled its Courier tablet, while Hewlett Packard may have given away its Windows 7 slate in order to adopt a webOS design.

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