HP Unveils New Vista Tablet PC

So Apple failed once again to launch the OS X-running Tablet so many were hoping for (I guess if you were very small you could consider the iPhone a tablet of sorts), and we'll have to look to one of the latest breed of Vista-based slates and convertibles to sate our desires for pen-computing.  TabletKiosk's Sahara series satisfies the former category pretty darn well, and maybe HP's new Pavilion tx1000 can deal with the latter.

With obvious design cues from the cult tc1100 hybrid, the tx1000 relies on the perhaps more practical twisting-screen notebook design and brings the specs bang up to date with its 1280x800 12.1-inch widescreen display, 1.8GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 mobile processor, 2GB of RAM and spacious 160GB hard-drive.  Sadly the Nvidia GeForce Go 6150 graphics card uses shared memory, unlike the praised separate card in the tc1100 series, although the general improvement in grunt means that Vista's various decorative features should be handled with aplomb.

jkontherun are already fans, while LAPTOP Magazine award the $1,720 machine 4/5 stars.  It'll apparently ship in February.HP Pavilion tx1000 [LAPTOP Magazine]