Intel's Atom To Ship In Over 35 Tablets Next Year

nateman1352 writes with a bit from TechSpot: "Intel has been trying to cut itself a slice of the mobile market for years, and it seems the company is finally making some headway. During a conference yesterday, Intel CEO Paul Otellini revealed that the company's Atom platform will ship in over 35 tablets starting early next year. The chipmaker has partnered with more than a dozen manufacturers who will launch slates running Windows [or] Android as well as Intel's own MeeGo operating system." The article lists Toshiba, Dell, Fujitsu, Lenovo, Asus, AT&T, Cisco, and Acer as developing Atom-based tablets.

Re:At least SOMEONE realistically estimates their

[Anonymous Coward]

you go, fanboi.. some people might want to use a tablet for something else other than gimmicky 'apps'. apples stuff doesn't allow that.

Re:Fingers crossed...

[alvinrod]

If you're comparing an Ubuntu tablet to an iPad, there's already an open alternative: Android tablets. The GalaxyTab has already gotten some good reviews and there're more Android tablets trickling out every day. They might not all be good or similar to an iPad, but there are plenty of people who want different form factors and Android allows manufacturers to make that choice. I can't see Ubuntu being terribly much better than the tablets that have been running Windows 7. Sure, you get Linux instead of Windows, but it's still bolting a touch interface onto a desktop OS and running it on hardware no more powerful than a netbook. Maybe this is something that you want, but given how terrible the sales of Windows 7 tablets have been, I can't see Linux devices doing much better in the market.

Apple doesn't even make a tablet that uses a regular desktop OS. If you're comparing Ubuntu's app store to the OS X app store that doesn't even exist yet the comparison makes no sense since you can side load apps on OS X and it's been the only way to do so up until now. Ubuntu's app store will also be curated just like the major repositories (which honestly are pretty much app stores without a fancy graphical front end) or at least it had better be because if it's full of malware no one is going to want to use it. Regardless, it doesn't make a lot of sense to compare a desktop OS app store to a tablet OS app store. They run on different devices which have different histories.

I'm not really sure what it is you're looking for as you seem to be mixing two different ideas together while trying to treat them as though they are similar. Could you perhaps explain what you meant? I'm having a hard time trying to determine exactly what kind of product it is that you're looking for.

Re:Very much this

[randallman]

To be more specific, more software has been written for win32 than all other platforms combined. But, we're talking about tablets here. And for the kind with no keyboard or mouse, win32 apps do not run well, because their interface doesn't work. That should be clear after the failure of previous Windows tablets and the success of the iPad. So if we're talking about iPad competitors, win32 application compatibility it irrelevant.