Looking like the same industrial design as the Iconia A500, this is Acer’s Meego Tablet.
Full credit to @ndeviltv and @ngde_live
More coming soon. I’ll be reporting on this over at Meegonews. Update: Videos, screen grabs and thoughts on the article.
Acer’s Iconia Tab M500 Meego Tablet Appears On-Stage
Posted on 01 June 2011, Last updated on 01 June 2011 by Steve Paine
Hola!
I like the look of this.
How soon?
‘End of year’ apparently. See article over at MeeGoNews for latest.
http://meegonews.com/2011/06/01/acers-meego-tablet-appears-on-stage/
cheers.
i’d be more interested if it used Intel’s Cedarview platform, as an x86 tablet will need 32nm to have a competitive power profile with ARM, and the OpenCL capability of the embedded SGX545 gpu would be a useful feature.
p.s. would it use Meego 1.3 with Wayland……….?
No. Wayland will only be experimental in 1.3. There’s an upgrade path tho. May 2012 for Meego 1.4 with Wayland.
Chippy: Apparently the Acer Tablet is running on Moorestown, rather than Oak Trail. Intel also mentioned that they’ll ship other Z6xx SKUs other than the already announced Z650/Z670. The two were Z615 and Z625.
Jedibeeftrix: Cedarview, while lower power than Pineview, is not as interesting as Medfield and the Tablet sibling Cloverview. Overall platform power looks similar to the Tablet Oak Trail because Cedar Trail platform has the NM10 express chipset.
Oak Trail: 3W CPU + 0.75W SM35
Cedar Trail: 3.5-6.5W CPU + 1.5W NM10
The TDP for Cedar Trail is for dual core so I guess single core version can get lower for TDP, but overall Oak Trail shouldn’t be worse because it’ll be paired with better power management features and companion devices.
It’s not all about process technology, because you are looking at a platform level. Number one importance is segmentation. It’s like saying 22nm Ivy Bridge will be lower power than 45nm Atoms.
thanks again chippy.
hmm i hope the OS can be changed, for example from meego to Ubuntu ? :)
can anyone confirm ?
Can’t wait for Windows 8 (on ARM).