Australia sees a new Sahara

This evening the staff at Tegatech Australia must have been given a huge pay rise, or at least some free pizza! Why you might ask? Well, while Australia was sleeping and many countries were just waking, Tegatech Australia went live with pricing for the new range of Sahara Slate PCs.

The new models are as follows:

• Sahara Slate PC i440D


• Sahara Slate PC i440T


• Sahara Slate PC i412T

Some of the most compelling features of these devices are inclusions such as Intel Core Duo, support for up to 4GB of RAM, a PCMCIA slot, and the ability to accept both Active Digitizer and Resistive Touch…yes, on the same machine.
Enjoy Australia, New Zealand and beyond.

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TabletKiosk i215 Sahara Slate SlashGear

Hugo Ortega on the Amtek TabletKiosk T200 Sahara i215

Slash Gear recently announced a new Slate by a Taiwanese OEM named Amtek. The model number is the T200 and the branding is iTablet; Warner was quick to spot it too. What I found interesting was that I have had the exact same model under my pillow for over two years. I even blogged about some Tablet PC surgery I performed on her (don’t try this at home folks). Over this period the only negative about the device, other than the retro specifications, was that it was never built to run Windows Vista, that is until I received an email from a friend recently.

It turns out that the Manufacturer Amtek, had in fact released a Vista BIOS that now allowed for the installation to occur. So instead of going through the install on my own I thought I would make you all part of my work day and share with you the Vista install. Enjoy!

By the way, Amtek is the manufacturer while Tablet Kiosk is the ODM; just like the ASUS is the manufacturer and Motion Computing is the ODM. The most exciting thing about the Sahara is that it just had a new sibling, the i440D.

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Another Sahara review with me in it

Jon Harsem has posted a review of the Sahara Slate PC. While he meanders through these thoughts, on the Sahara Slate, we are taken through a journey of both pleasure and pain. One interesting paragraph I note is his reference to me, Hugo Ortega; it seems that my passion for all things Tablet PC is getting contagious…

Jon is an ace cartoonist on a Tablet (this picture all done via Tablet PC - WOW!)

More Art by Jon

Heres a sniping:

The Hugo Effect

Perhaps these Tegatech distributed slates have another thing going for it - I shall dub it "The Hugo Effect". Hugo Ortega is the one man marketing/tech/sales/general action man-machine behind the TabletKiosk/Sahara Tablet PC in Australia and hes pretty much on fire. You cannot be in his company for more then 10 minutes and not get enthused about the Tablet PC platform.

Read the full review

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