We’re quite interested at how Pegatron is coming along in terms of OEM manufacturing arm of Asustek (yes, the Eee PC Asustek) is keen on making a brand name of itself beginning with the AQUIC netbook. That one didn’t catch too much attention so maybe a tablet would. Enter the Pegatron Slate, an 11.6-inch touchscreen tablet PC powered by an Intel Atom processor. It runs Windows 7 of course. This one has a 32GB SSD for storage and boasts HDMI out.

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Now that the Crunchpad is officially vaporware, we can look towards China to slake our thirst for 10-inch multi-touch computer tablets. The K.R.T. X9 is officially a 10.2-inch tablet running on Windows 7 with multi-touch support. It’s powered by a 1.6GHz Intel  Atom N270 processor and has WiFi plus 3G connectivity (WCDMA, TD-SCDMA,  CDMA2000). Also in the list of features are 3 USB ports, VGA port and a 5-in-1 card reader. The battery lasts 4 hours. The 4000 yuan price tag will bring the K.R.T. X9 to  about $588 USD.

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Gigabyte releases in Japan the Windows 7-running TouchNote T1028X tablet netbook and BookTop M1022X netbook. Both models are powered by Intel Atom N280 1.6GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, integrated graphics and a 250GB hard drive.

The TouchNote T1028 is a convertible tablet with a swivel 10.1-inch 1366×768 touchscreen and the M1022X also has a 10.1-inch screen. Other common features include Bluetooth 2.1, built-in 1.5Wx2 speakers, WiFi and 1.3 Megapixel webcam.

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We’re glad that shipments of the Nokia Booklet 3G laptop are blazingly up-to-date now running the recently announced Windows 7. One disappointment is that the laptop spotted on Best Buy runs Windows 7 Starter Edition. For a $599 netbook, we would have expected Home Premium at least. Engadget tells us it’s a demo unit. Windows 7 may be a less bloated OS than Vista, but that doesn’t mean an Intel Atom laptop can support Aero.

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Viliv Boys’ Blog has put Windows 7 on a recently aquired OQO 02, and claims to be thoroughly enjoying it. The interface definitely looks cramped on the OQO 02’s 800×480 screen, and despite some initial issues it sounds like everything is functional. Just goes to show that a great UMPC will never die, even if the company behind it shuts its doors.

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It’s really happening, people — these Windows 7 retail boxes just turned up at a Chicago electronics store today.

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Asus did not take too much time to redesign its previously announced EeeBox EB1012 and announced (although still unofficially) the EeeBox EB1501. What makes this nettop different from its siblings are three  things – NVIDIA Ion chipset and Intel Atom 333 dual-core processor and Windows 7.

The last feature earn the EeeBox EB1501 the title of being the first nettop loaded with Windows 7.

Other specs include 2GB of RAM (expandable up to 4GB), 250GB of HDD, built-in DVD burner, and HDMI port.

The EeeBox EB1501 will most likely get a price tag of around $580 when it reach the European market.

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No the Windows 7 version of the Netflix Watch Instantly still isn’t going to work on Extenders for Media Center, but it will include a more seamless experience than the Vista version does, like the movie info image above. Microsoft really wasn’t ready to share any more details with us, but we suspect the search is improved. The fact that they were so tight lipped leads us to believe that Microsoft is still holding back on some Windows 7 details — at least in regards to internet content and Windows 7. At this point it appears we might have to wait until the official release of Windows 7 to truly figure out if all that work to bring internet content to Windows 7 pays off.

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We’re probably not going to see an Apple tablet tomorrow, but the Archos 9 could hold us over. The “netblet” (yea, my portmanteau of the words netbook and tablet) runs Windows 7, but I’m not sure I’d shell out $500.

The 0.63-inch thin Archos 9 feels pretty sturdy, but one major complaint is that it feels heavy. Archos says it only weighs 1.2 pounds, but something about the balance is wrong, because it felt heavier than that in my hands. The hardware is pretty simple—a 9-inch resistive touchscreen (no multitouch) with a few surrounding physical buttons.

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MSI has confirmed some previous whisperings of a Windows 7-running, resistive touchscreen netbook which will boast Intel’s much anticipated Pine Trail chipset — the Wind U150, which should present some competition for the ASUS T91. The real question is timing for this one: MSI has also said that Intel’s chipset will arrive at CES 2010, which makes sense in the context of previous rumors we’ve heard that Acer and ASUS are freezing new netbook production until 2010, pending Pine Trail’s debut. Intel, however, has remained steadfast in its avowal that the chipset is still on track for release this year… so what does it all mean? Your guess is as good as ours. MSI also simultaneously confirms the Wind U210 for the beginning of September, on AMD’s Yukon platform. The U210 will run Windows XP and start at $379, with 1GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive.

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