With the TouchPad, the culmination thus far of HP's $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm, the world's largest technology company by revenue hopes it can finally offer a formidable competitor to Apple, the world's largest technology company by market cap, in the race for tablet dominance.
Pluses of the new Toshiba Thrive tablet: laptop-like functionality and ports, with sherbet-colored, nonslip back panels. Negatives: bloatware. Lots of bloatware.
RIM revealed its tablet yesterday, but you've probably got some questions. How's it compare to the competition? Who'll buy it? Why did RIM make it, and announce it now? Here's everything you wanted to know, and more.
It's here: After months of teasing, RIM's revealed its iPad rival. Except it's targeted at Enterprise customers. Or so says RIM anyway. Meet the PlayBook.