Vizio’s first Windows tablet makes debut with 11.6-inch screen

By AJ Dellinger Published January 6, 2013

Image used with permission by copyright holder

Vizio is probably best known in the tech world for it’s televisions. Quality high definition displays are a top priority for Vizio when producing TVs, so it should come as no surprise that the California-based company is bringing that expertise to the tablet market with it’s Vizio Tablet PC.

Featuring a 1080p display that will be stretched across a spacious 11.6-inch screen, the Vizio Tablet PC continues the trend of pushing the bounds of portability by increasing size, a trend that will eventually end in us dropping the “t” from the end of “tablet” because they’ll be as big as the top of a table. Running Windows 8, no RT involved, the device will be the first of the Windows tablet family to be powered by an AMD processor. This particular model will be packed with a 1GHz AMD z60 chip, which will run alongside 2GB of RAM. Apps and files will live on the 64GB solid-state drive for storage. Microsoft Signature software will come installed on said hard drive, but it won’t be accompanied by any bloatware.

Recommended Videos

Other notable features on the Vizio Tablet PC includes a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. Micro HDMI and Micro USB ports have a home on the device as well. While no hint of price point or release date has been made available, you should probably be looking forward to getting hands on this device – however hard that may be do to given its size. hands-on coverage coming soon from the show floor.

Contributor

AJ Dellinger is a freelance reporter from Madison, Wisconsin with an affinity for all things tech. He has been published by…

Topics

Computing

NotebookLM can now automatically organize your research sources for you

Managing sources in NotebookLM just became effortless.

google-adds-data-tables-feature-in-notebooklm

If you use NotebookLM for research, you know how quickly sources pile up. Managing them manually, especially in notebooks with ten or more entries, has been one of the tool's most frustrating pain points, but Google just fixed that.

NotebookLM, the AI-powered research assistant built on Gemini, is rolling out automatic source labeling and categorization. The feature activates once you have five or more sources in a notebook, and it automatically assigns labels for you.

Computing

Old tech keeps coming back because new tech got annoying and we miss simpler times

Dumb phones, discs, cameras, and retro consoles are cycling back because modern tech got too needy for its own good

Toned picture of retro cassette player and earphones on tabletop.

Old jeans and old sneakers get a pass because fashion is cyclical. One year something looks dead, a few years later it’s back with a better markup and a straight-faced explanation about authenticity.

I’m starting to see consumer tech the same way. The revival isn’t limited to one corner of the junk drawer, either. It’s showing up in phones, cameras, audio gear, movies, and games. A tiny camera dangling from a wrist has more personality than another glass slab taking overprocessed night-mode shots.

Computing

The best trick AI can pull is disappear into my gadgets instead of turning into a product

AI may finally become useful when it stops announcing itself and starts quietly fixing the annoying parts of everyday tech

Appliance, Blow Dryer, Device

My wife recently woke up from a nightmare where AI had taken over human bodies. The likely culprit was less dramatic: Google Photos kept nudging her to “AI” herself when she only wanted to look at pictures of our cats.

That’s where a lot of people are with AI right now. Curious, tired, mildly creeped out, and increasingly annoyed when normal apps start acting like every action needs a software demo attached.