Review of Archos9 Game

Archos9 is the newest and most exciting of the increasingly popular Windows Tablets. The first thing that catches a person's eye upon sighting the new Archos9 and even before getting to use it is its remarkably cute design. The tablet's screen is only 9 inches, and it would seem that it is from this fact that its gets the '9' part of its 'Archos9' name.

Archos9's small size, however, belies a remarkable immensity of the computing power. Indeed, its makers tout it as a 'tablet-sized netbook' which is to say that it offers the computing power of a netbook while still maintaining the economy of size (and weight) which is characteristic of tablets.

Going beyond the cute exteriors and getting inside the gadget, one is met by a powerful 1.2 GHz processor - which only goes a long way to show how far the evolution of computer power has come, from a time when even the best of building-filling mainframe computer could not offer this level of computing power, to a point where through devices like the Archos9, you can actually fit 1.2 Giga Hertz of computing power into your pocket! To give you (as the user) this computing power, the Archos9 relies on an Atom Z515 processor.

Beyond what can be described as remarkable processor power, Archos9 also offers you as the user immense storage space, 80 Giga Bytes of it to be precise. To even the most extravagant of users, this is likely to be more than enough storage space, even when you factor in the space consumed by the operating system and applications stored in the tablet. And for users who will only be using the tablet to access applications over the Internet (an increasingly popular model for tablet and netbook users), then the 80 GB offered by Archos9 is likely to be more than one can find anything to do with, even with the heaviest of multimedia files.

To make the Internet access possible even when the Archos9 user is on the move, the tablet comes with full Bluetooth functionality, a feature that is becoming increasingly indispensable in gadgets of this type. And to 'capture stuff from the air' for you, Archos9 comes with Dual antennas (of the increasingly popular DVB-T variety), which might not seem like much until you attempt to use a tablet without this particular feature (of an antenna) or one whose antennae reception is weak.

To maximize of Archos9's full computing power, ensure that you are running Windows Version 7 on it (which it should come with anyway, since that is meant to be the default operating system on it).

Contrary to what one might first imagine, Archos9 is not all that harsh on your pocket, and this is something that you should get for as low a figure as 650 dollars if you are in the United States, which works out to about 450 Euros if you are in Europe (where the tablet should be available by the end of the third quarter of the year 2009).

Our take is that the Archos9 tablet makes for a great buy, especially if you are keen to get massive computing power crammed in an amazingly small and neat package.