We’ve presented you a few months ago a MSI tablet prototype running Tegra 2 hardware, with speculated launch date sometime during Computex Taipei trade show and sub 500 $ price. All these info is now confirmed, except the Tegra platform, which was ditched in favor of Intel Menlow Zxx Atom CPUs. That puts the 10 inch tablet in the same league with other Atom powered slate tablets running Windows 7: the running slow league. Price will be under 500$ and we’ll have features like 3G and WiFi, plus MSI talks about an exclusive deal for eBook content, one of the main uses of the Slatebook, according to the Taiwanese manufacturer.

    If you sum up all those rumors it’s hard to be impressed, as we all know how slow netbooks move compared to other serious hardware found in your 350$ laptop. You get of course the advantage of running fully fledged desktop apps, but that’s pretty much it. Maybe MSI Slatebook will be compatible with the upcoming Google Chrome OS, but not info points in this direction right now.

    MSI Slatebook prototype

    MSI Slatebook prototype

    Source: Liliputing