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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

The Sony Vaio Tap 20: A 20 Inch TabPC? PTab? Heck it’s 20 inch Tablet


In what the Samsung Galaxy Note did for phones Sony attempts to do with the Sony Vaio Tab 20 for tablets. That's right Sony has released a 20 inch 11.4 pound tablet into the world for a starting price of a mere 880 USD. Want to know more? Read on...
It's really just an all in one touchscreen PC with a battery. So what do you get in 880 dollar version? It will be running Windows 8 with some low to mid range specs:
  • Core i3 processor
  • 4GB of RAM
  •  500GB hard drive
  •  20-inch, 1,600 x 900
  • display can lie flat
  • the display is "drop-resistant"
  •  there's a rubber seal around the bezel (That makes the motherboard water resistant?)
  • display at least uses IPS technology, so it's safe to say you can expect decent viewing angles
  • NFC
  • 1.3-megapixel webcam
  • dual speakers
  •  subwoofer
Here is a hands on review of this beast from CNET

Sadly, I am tempted to put this on my tech geek list to Santa Claus this year and see if he truly does make all wish come true. Anyone with me?

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