Archos 9 Tablet with 1.2 GHz Atom CPU

source – alltouchtablet.com by John Pope

We’ve reviewed the Archos 9 Tablet running Windows 7 Started edition a few weeks ago and the general conclusion was that the 1.1 GHz Atom CPU was not powerful enough to get a smooth user interaction. It seems that Archos took this thought into consideration as it just recently bumped the CPU found inside the Archos 9 to 1.2 GHz via the Atom Z515 chip.
Now, don’t expect major changes, as the overall speed increase is under 10%, but expect it to run a little smooth, and if you turn down some of the Windows 7 Starter effects (even if this is a stripped version of Windows 7) you can get a pretty decent feedback to your touches.
The price was also reviewed a little, as you can now purchase the Archos 9 Tablet from Amazon for 539$. Throw in an SSD drive and another gig of RAM and you have a pretty interesting touch tablet here.