Convertible Pavilion: HP TX1000 Tablet

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Portability and versatility are two attributes many buyers look for when choosing a new laptop. Weighing just over 4 pounds, and boasting tablet touchscreen capability, HP's new TX1000 scores highly on both.

HP TX1000 Tablet PCTablets arethose nifty handheld devices, sort of like enlarged PDAs,complete with a stylus to doodle on the screen with, which neverreally caught on. Laptops-well, laptops are the hippest and mostdynamic craze in computing. But what happens when you put the twotogether? A Frankenstein that will short-circuit, go berserk, andpillage the countryside? No, the HP Pavilion TX1000 tabletnotebook.


This"notelet" could be the next iPod-type craze on the electronicgadget market, given the right publicity. Students and everydayusers will turn into giddy, must-have-it consumers over thesenotelets. In large part, the hysteria could explode thanks to theHP TX1000's tablet-likefeatures, such as its touchscreen capabilities that can really betouch-and not just stylus-activated. Or there's the Paviliondisplay's ability to swivel around. The price won't hurteither-it is set to hit retail shelves at $1,299.

Your pre-Frosh getting ready for the university campus or your20-something looking for a laptop for thecoffee shop could also be won over by the brand-spanking newWindows Vista operating system (which, by the way, is what makesthe tabletcapabilities possible).

This HP's notebook's 12.1-inch screen, besides its ability torotate clockwise and folding into tabletmode, also has a high glossy finish fit for a DVD. And if youhappen to want to run a DVD while you're halfway across the room,no worries: the HP PavilionTX1000 comes with a remote control, which hides out in theExpressCard slot when you're not using it.

Now, on to the next obvious question: Why we're hinting that thisnotelet might be better off for everyday consumers (and implyingthat it might not cut it for serious laptop users and businessprofessionals). For starters, the 1GB of RAM standard and AMDTurion X2 TL-60 dual core processor aren't anything to use withheavy-duty graphics files or massive database apps. And theTX1000's Nvidia Go 5150 graphics chip won't send cutting edgegamers to another world. It'll probably send them to anothercomputer.

This tablet notebook only weighs about 4.2 pounds, sure, but frequent travelers might beput off by the plastic, some would say cheapish, build. And forall of the ports, media reader and webcam that the notelet has,there's no FireWire. Is that being picky? Perhaps. At least thisnew Pavilion TX1000 is not just another enlargedPDA.

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