Side shot of the Samsung Series 7 Slate PC announced today. (Photo credit: This is my next)
The infamous and equally mysterious slate from TechEd New Zealand 2011. (Photo credit: Alan Burchill, annotations by me)
Obviously these are not the same, as noted by the difference in exhaust grill and SIM slot, but it’s hard to dispute the similarities.
Could maybe be that the TechEd model was a pre-release model, or as MS calls it an engineering model. Guess we’ll only find out at BUILD. Can’t wait for it any more 🙂
It is very similar but as Windows 8 is meant to support edge gestures all physical buttons will have to go on the side.
The camera lens is a pretty standard location on all devices. Probably is Samsung though.
The Samsung Series 7 Slate has a flush screen with large margins on all sides so it should satisfy the edge gestures requirement.
Thommck’s point probably was that because of that requirement, all W8 slates will have physical buttons on the side so using that as a evidence isn’t as strong as it might be.
I guess one could be an ARM version of it (the one from microsoft). But surely, both are sammies.
And… this is Core i5 and Corei3 , no quad core 🙁
And gpu is Intel ?
Remember these are not the exact same devices, as noted by the differences.
That happens when you watch CSI regularly. Great finding! 🙂
I’ll just take a series 7 thank you. Unless of course the ARM tablet also has a wacom digitizer.