Fujitsu LifeBook P1500: tiny tablet

Michelle Thatcher Former Senior Associate Editor, Laptops

Tech expert Michelle Thatcher grew up surrounded by gadgets and sustained by Tex-Mex cuisine. Life in two major cities--first Chicago, then San Francisco--broadened her culinary horizons beyond meat and cheese, and she's since enjoyed nearly a decade of wining, dining, and cooking up and down the California coast. Though her gadget lust remains, the practicalities of her small kitchen dictate that single-function geegaws never stay around for long.

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Michelle Thatcher

Aug. 8, 2005 11:41 a.m. PT

Today Fujitsu announced the LifeBook P1500, a convertible tablet that weighs 2.2 pounds and is about the size of a paperback book. Curiously, the tablet runs on Windows XP Pro, rather than Windows XP Tablet Edition, and features a passive touch screen that accepts input from any stylus or even your fingers--no active digitizer pen required. With a 1.2GHz Pentium M processor and 512MB of RAM, will the LifeBook P1500 prove to be the happy middle between a handheld and a laptop? We'll test it soon and let you know. Meanwhile, read more about the .

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