Well, that was quick. Less than two weeks after Toshiba debuted the Libretto W100 in Japan, they’re now offering it worldwide now. In case you missed it, the Libretto W100 is Toshiba’s answer to the recent compact slate/ tablet trend started by the iPad. It offers a different twist though, with two touch screens that can open and close like a notebook (with the bottom screen showing a virtual keyboard, of course), or held open on its side to work as a perfectly natural ebook reader.
It’s considerably more expensive than the $500 iPad though, but the Libretto W100 runs on a Windows 7 operating system with a touch-friendly UI on top, so it’s technically a tiny notebook—complete with one USB port and card reader—without the springy buttons and touchpad. It’s available in a single configuration for $1,100 with a 1.2GHz Intel Pentium processor, 2GBs of memory, and a 62GB solid state drive. An 8-cell battery powers the tiny 1.5-pound device.
If you’re interested, you have to be quick about it though, since availability’s said to be pretty limited. Toshiba didn’t really say how much they were going to put out, so it’s probably going to sell until they run out of stock.
Tags: Libretto, Tablets, Tablets, Toshiba
