New Windows 8-Ready Hybrid Tablet, Convertible Laptop from Fujitsu - mcgonaglewourease

Fujitsu Monday undraped two devices optimized for Windows 8: the business-friendly Rhetorical Q702 slating tablet–which has an optional keyboard pier–and the 13.3-inch Lifebook T902 transmutable laptop computer.

Stylistic Q702: A Dockable Windows Tablet for Professionals

The Fujitsu Rhetorical Q702 joins the ontogeny abundant of ticket tablets with optional keyboard docks (like the popular Android-settled Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime and Samsung Serial publication 5 Loan-blend running Windows 8, which we sawing machine recently at the Computex technology establish in Capital of Taiwan).

Fujitsu Stylistic Q702

Besides turning the Stylistic Q702 into a laptop with full keyboard, the dock increases the tablet's battery life-time to an estimated 9 hours (from the 4.5-hour s provided away the built-in assault and battery) and offers additive expansion ports, including USB, ethernet, and VGA.

The 11.6-in Rhetorical Q702 features the latest IPS (In-Carpenter's plane Switching) show technology–AH-IPS, or Advanced High Performance IPS–for all-inclusive wake angles and color truth. In the sea of tablets and laptops with glossy screens, the Stylistic Q702 also stands out for its anti-glare display, which should make working happening the tablet outdoors a more gratifying experience.

As a matter of fact, the tablet is designed for mobile professionals. Business-friendly features include Intel anti-theft engineering, a fingermark biometric sensor, and TPM (Trusted Platform Module) for hard-drive encoding.

The Stylistic Q702 features decent specs for a hybrid Windows tablet: a third-genesis Intel Core i3 or i5 processor, 4GB of computer memory, and either a 64 or 128 GB solid drive.

Compared to the approaching Windows Aerofoil Pro tablet from Microsoft, the Stylistic Q702 is a little lighter (1.88 pounds versus the Earth's surface In favour of's 1.99 pounds) despite the larger display size (the Surface Pro is a 10.6-inch pill), and it features like reposition options.

However, the Stylistic Q702 is only a "Windows 8-ready and waiting" tablet–meaning it's been planned for and should be easily upgradable to the upcoming OS, but when IT launches in the third quarter of this year, it will launch with Windows 7 Professional installed.

Indeed if you want to take advantage of Windows 8's tinct-optimized interface on the Rhetorical Q702, you should factor in the $40 Windows 8 upgrade price to the tablet's $1,099 protrusive cost.

Lifebook T902: An Updated Tablet Personal computer

Fujitsu Lifebook T902

The Fujitsu Lifebook T902 is a significant update to the Lifebook T901. In plus to the redesigned chiclet-style keyboard and a thinner and lighter design (4.1 pounds instead of the T901's 4.7 pounds), the T902 now includes a dual digitizer with 10-finger multi-relate back. That analog-digital converter upgrade Crataegus laevigata improve the impact experience happening this laptop designed for Windows 8.

Like the Rhetorical Q702, however, the Lifebook T902 will ship with Windows 7 Vocation at launch this fall.

This latest Lifebook transformable tablet runs a tierce-coevals Intel Core i5 operating theatre i7 processor, supports up to 16GB of memory, and can overflow 7 hours on one battery charge.

Add a 2nd battery in the modular bay, and the Lifebook T902 can last finished to 11 hours. The modular bay also takes an optical drive or second hard movement to expand storage options, which range from a 320GB HDD to a 256GB SSD.

For the security-minded, the Lifebook T902 includes a Smart Card expansion slot, fingermark biometric sensor, Intel Opposing-Stealing Technology, and optional Intel vPro chips.

Starting at $1899, the Lifebook T902 is an investment–pricier than the recently announced ThinkPad X230t, which starts at $1479.

However, the Lifebook T902 has a larger 13.3-inch HD+ widescreen showing and smaller bevels for more screen actual estate–making it the largest screen available thus far with some extend to and pen support.

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