While it’s true that tablet PCs have failed to take off in the consumer space, it’s also true that tablet PCs have done quite nicely in the vertical space. Tablet PCs have been fairly successful in vertical segments such as medicine, health-care, and inventory management. And now – Xplore Technologies hopes tablet PCs will also be successful in clean room environments with the launch of the new Clean Room iX104C4 Tablet PC.

In case you’re wondering – clean rooms are environments specifically designed to eliminate contaminants and foreign debris from entering into a manufacturing process with the classic example being the chip manufacturing process.

Xplore’s Clean Room iX104C4 features:

• Rugged computer designed specifically for clean room environments
• Fully sealed design. Construction of the tablet and docking station avoids area where liquids can pool which could lead to contamination.
• Triple-layer magnesium housing
• User-accessible hard drive and PCMCIA bay
• Best in class indoor/outdoor AllVue Xtreme display technology
• Auto-sensing dual mode technology allowing users the ability to use either pen or touch input
• 1.2 GHz Intel Core Duo processor
• 802.11 a/g/n Wi-Fi
• Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
• Windows XP Tablet Edition or Windows Vista
• Windows 7 compliant

Interestingly enough – even if you don’t work in clean room environments, you might very well be interested in this tablet PC – if only because of it’s rugged design and fully sealed system.

Read more about the Xplore Clean Room iX104C4 here.

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