DigitalRise PC-729 Tablet bucks the Windows 7 trend

8:26 PM, Nov 18th, 2009 0 Comments

The embarrassingly underpowered DigitalRise PC-729

Every once in a while we talk about a tablet that makes us shake our heads in awe. Unfortunately in this case it’s followed by a quick “what are they thinking?”

DigitalRise’s PC-729 tablet PC starts with the basic Windows XP configuration. Unfortunately if you’d like to upgrade to Windows 7 you’re probably out of luck. The 7 inch touch screen tablet has an Arm9 processor and Bluetooth connection. Aaaaaaaaand that’s where the positives end.

Among the negatives: a pitifully low 480 x 272 resolution (remember, this is on a 7″ screen, not a 3.5″ or 4″), 128MB of RAM (surprisingly they still make those), a battery “up to 4 hours” (which means 2 hours if you’re actually doing anything normal), has 4GB of internal storage and it costs $355.

There’s a lot of other specs if you’d like to check them out on the store page. One interesting bit: it comes pre-installed with an NES emulator.