The Sony Vaio Tap 11 is, in my opinion, setting the engineering benchmark for Core-based Tablets for 2013 and most of 2014. It’s 9.9mm thick and weighs 780gm. If it was running Atom, it wouldn’t be anything new but a 1.5Ghz Core CPU is a different matter. It’s such a step forward that I wasn’t sure whether to report this on UMPCPortal or Ultrabooknews.
I took the chance to dig into the device manager at IFA today, took some pics and put together a video for you.
Sony has announced an 11-inch, 0.39-inch thick tablet with keyboard cover. Does the design sound familiar?
The Acer P3 ‘Ultrabook’ uses a similar design running the Core Y-series CPUs. The ASUS Vivobook Smart does a similar trick with the Clovertrail CPUs but the one most people will be thinking about is the MS Surface Pro which runs U-series Core CPUs. In many respects, the Tap 11 trumps them all by offering Haswell, the next generation Intel processor, in a very thin design. The question is, what’s the battery life like?
