Sandy Bridge Android Tablet From Acer Official
We are slightly late reporting this, but Acer have announced Sandy Bridge powered tablets! Sandy Bridge is Intel’s newest generation of processor for desktops and laptops, but we certainly didn’t expect to see the new tech in tablets! It seems like overkill, with such tremendous computing ability squashed into a device with limited potential to fully utilise that ability, but onwards goes the forward march of progress, something we can’t argue with. The Sandy Acer tablets will be coming in 7-inch and 10-inch sizes and, according to Taiwan sales manager Lu Bing-hsian, the Sandy Bridge Acer tablets will aimed at “phasing out netbooks.” Why? Because “that’s the direction of the market.” Quite the stance. According to ComputerWorld, the tablets will run Android – we would have thought the powerful x86-based Sandy Bridge’s would run Windows 7. We very much look forward to seeing these Sandy Android tabs in action, but really do ponder at why they’d need so much computing beef to run Android when the OS runs fine on less powerful ARM-based solutions.
via slashgear
Categories: Hardware News, Tablet, Windows Tablet
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[...] recent hype with Acer has been about their new Sandy Bridges 10-inch and 7-inch tablets announcements. Slightly prior to this was Acer’s 10-inch Tegra 2 tablet, and their 7-inch Qualcomm [...]