Gateway 11.6-Inch Tablet PC Leaked

By James Kendrick | Monday, October 5, 2009 | 6:11 PM CT | 5 comments | Tweet This (5)

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Gateway has been largely silent on the Tablet PC front for a good while, but that may be changing soon. Engadget has gotten wind of a new convertible notebook by Gateway that will be running Windows 7 when released. Gateway has produced heavy, clunky tablets in the past, but the EC18T has a pretty small form with an 11.6-inch screen.

Not much is known about the this new Gateway, but the folks at engadget have a gaggle of photos of the new Tablet PC. We’ll have to see what kind of price Gateway puts on the this new convertible.

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Comments (5)

How is it that they’re still releasing Core 2 tablets when core i7 processors are shipping?

Christ, it’s like the OEMs aren’t even trying – a large number of the people who buy tablets are POWER USERS. Lawyers, doctors, IT people – give us a GPU and a current generation processor, PLEEEEEASE!

JimAtLaw — 6:41 PM on October 5, 2009 Reply
- The low consumption Core i7 processors are still unreleased, and running a tablet on a desktop CPU is a terrible idea.
  
  Sumocat — 7:11 PM on October 5, 2009 Reply
- Sumocat, when you say the “low consumption” processors are still unreleased, I’m not sure what you mean.
  
  Several i7 mobile processors have now been released, as of last week – HP and Dell are now selling laptops with them, these are not “desktop CPU” models. Or are you arguing that tablets must only run with low voltage CPU models and equating the Clarksfield releases to desktop processors?
  
  Fujitsu, by counterexample, already ships to the T5010 with the T9600, which runs at 45W TDP – the new Core i7 820QM also runs at 45W TDP. Here’s hoping they soon swap in the new chipset and CPU!
  
  JimAtLaw — 7:42 PM on October 5, 2009 Reply
Just wanted to bounce this off a couple of people, with an 11.6″ screen, are we confident that this is a TabletPC with an active digitizer? A passive stylus input with touch would still be ok, but for me represents use in a different space than I would want. I used Gateway TabletPC’s back while the line was the CX-series, so I am not clear that the product line was eventually migrated to the E-series?

Zeuxidamas — 11:47 AM on October 6, 2009 Reply
An affordable, thin & light tablet is exactly what i want!

More dets! more dets!

Scott — 2:08 PM on October 19, 2009 Reply