Archos 9 PC Tablet (Black)
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$549.99
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- $538.99
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Product Info
- Brand: Archos
- EAN: 0690590513532
- Manufacturer: Archos
Features
- Play all your multimedia content including HD videos
- Use all your daily software such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, LiveTM Messenger or Skype with Windows 7
- Stay connected to Internet and your emails with the built-in connectivity
- Includes integrated 1.3MP webcam
- Slenderness and low weight have been the two important characteristics in the mobility market. Only 0.7" thick and weighing only 800 grams.
- It's the perfect companion to carry along from room to room or train to plane
Spotlight customer reviews:
- Customer Rating:
- Summary: Ok, but underpowered
- Comment: The Archos 9 is a well built little pad with a good solid feel but it has a horse power problem. It just feels sluggish. It seams to struggle along running Windows 7. Ive heard you can get Windows XP to run on it but the video playback suffers (no idea why). Its touch screen is ok but they should have included a decent hand writing recognition program to take full advantage of it. Over all a very well built device that needs a bit more processor power and some custom software to take better advantage of the touch screen.
- Customer Rating:
- Summary: ARCHOS 9 Product Information is Lying (updated)
- Comment: This is an updated review. Apparently, this review is not showing with all the others, and strangely, the weblink proving my case has been deleted--suggesting to what depth the merchants are willing to go to hide the truth, and give people the best chance possible to belief the false specifications they are showing, and buy it anyway.
The resolution on this device is 1024x600, not 1080p HD (1920x1080 progressive). I quote from above, "widescreen, LED-backlit display, which provides a full HD 1080p resolution."
This is false information, as is clearly described in the specifications on Archos' website: [...]
Even worse, Archos Corp. is also the merchant here, which means they DELIBERATELY lied about the specifications. See, they know that most people will trust what they read in the product description, and will be easily duped by the fact that it will PLAY a 1080p--thinking that this means the display is a 1080p resolution. From this, the company who wrote this deliberately lies about the specifications, with full intent to deceive their customers--gambling on them being to stupid to be able to discover it until they're already sold.
I'm really sick of this trend. Electronics companies are carrying on a trend of exploiting customers' lack of knowledge, instead of supporting them. This is a dangerous precedent to allow. Let's make it cost them something to lie to us.
I challenge all customers, when they see merchants who deliberately deceive customers regarding product specifications, to not only refuse to buy the product, but to boycott the company entirely, permanently, and place a statement to that effect online for the world to see--as I am doing.
The upper 1% are playing us for idiots and using technology to exploit our lack of knowledge, instead of doing their jobs. Let's use our ability to post to fight back. Let's make them pay, and let the world know their names. If we don't, they'll just get so powerful by lying to us our economy will collapse and we'll all end up getting our houses foreclosed on.
- Customer Rating:
- Summary: Great touchscreen tablet
- Comment: I have modified my Archos 9 with the recommendations under the 5 star reviews, and it is working like a champ. The only problem I had was the Backup Drive. It was too small to actually perform back up, either from Windows Backup Utility or Archos Security Center. After installing Windows 7 Professional, I just formatted over the backup drive and now use that for storage.
- Customer Rating:
- Summary: archos 9 update
- Comment: I Just load office 2007 ultimate on this tablet and it work great.
I upgrade to windows home edition and the hand writing recognition work great.
I can even watch hulu with no problem.
I have no problem with using the touch keyboard.
This is a great tablet_ the speed is the about the same as the Ipad.
- Customer Rating:
- Summary: Very Useful...but..
- Comment: For my family - this is a very handy tablet - device. It has some drawbacks, but we have found some niche uses.
Pro
Handy form factor, and with useful stylus integrated into a holder on the reverse side.
Front facing camera (lacking in iPad).
Convenient 'kick stand' to hold the device up when laid on a surface.
Full Windows OS for running applications.
Con
The big one for me - the battery sometimes jars and shuts down the device unexpectedly - this has happened several times - the fit of the battery to the case is not good (this may be my device only).
Slowwww....some more RAM and perhaps a SSD would speed the device up.
The on screen keyboard is just not up to the task of any serious typing - only short responses.
However - my wife uses this for video Skype calls all the time, and couldn't get by without it now! She'll carry the device around from room to room as she multi-tasks.
