What kind of laptop is the blonde woman using in the Flash video found here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/tabletpc/default.mspx

Please provide the manufacturer and model number.  It looks similar to
Acer tablet PCs, but this one has a beautiful metallic design.

---

Request for Question Clarification by tisme-ga on 09 Aug 2006 21:41 PDT

Do you think it is the Acer C200? 

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLJ,GGLJ:2006-10,GGLJ:en&q=acer%20c200&sa=N&tab=wi

It looks similar enough to me. I can't find anything else that comes close.

---

Clarification of Question by panaceaa-ga on 10 Aug 2006 01:38 PDT

It's not the Acer C200, though the C200 has a similar construction. 
The C200 is much boxer, though, and does not have the beautiful
metallic curves, especially around the keyboard.

I couldn't find anything that came close either, which is why I came
to Google Answers :).

---

Request for Question Clarification by tisme-ga on 10 Aug 2006 17:39 PDT

Coming to Google Answers was a great idea. I have fired off a few
emails and have someone at MS looking into it right now. No promises
though. :)

tisme-ga

---

Request for Question Clarification by tisme-ga on 11 Aug 2006 18:45 PDT

My source at MS thinks they will have an answer on Monday. Keep your
fingers crossed!

tisme-ga

---

Clarification of Question by panaceaa-ga on 11 Aug 2006 20:26 PDT

Okay, sounds good.  I would really prefer if it's an actual product
that one can buy.  My own sources have said it's probably a prototype
of the new Acer C200, but that doesn't do me any good because I can't
get it :).  Thanks for trying to find out!

---

Request for Question Clarification by tisme-ga on 11 Aug 2006 21:48 PDT

Was that you in the MS newsgroups? :P

tisme-ga

Hello panaceaa-ga,

I know this is not the answer you want, but I have a definite answer
for this question and am posting it as an official answer.

I have received two communications from inside Microsoft, one from
their relations department (they got in direct touch with both the
Tablet PC people and the people who were involved in the photograph),
and another from an internal department.

Unfortunately, the tablet is not even a prototype. It was only a
reference design, and is in no way a production machine. In other
words, it was a model of what a tablet pc might look like by a
designer, but did not have any electronics etc. inside of it.

There should be a slew of new Tablet PCs coming with the new Windows
Vista and hopefully something similar to that one will come out for
you shortly.

All the best,

tisme-ga

Considering I asked for a manufacturer and model number, this answer
did not meet the requirements for my question.

I thought this was an excellent answer. It may not have been what you
hoped to hear, but the truth sometimes disappoints. Punishing the
messenger of the bad news doesn't change the facts.

For $7, of which the researcher gets approximately $5.30, my colleague
tisme sure went above and beyond what is required to find you accurate
information about this laptop. Surely you would rather know the truth
than waste your time looking around stores for a laptop you will never
be able to buy - right? That alone is worth five stars, isn't it?

I have no idea what Tisme-ga was thinking giving you an honest,
sincere and well researched answer, I guess he should have made up a
fictional model number and told you it was discontinued before
production. Perhaps then you wouldn't have given a poor rating for his
valuable time and research.

[-- Mother911-ga --]

There is no manufacturer. There is no model number. That is the answer.

I'm with angy-ga on this. Your answer is as given: "There IS NO
manufacturer or model number." Should the Researcher have lied and
given you one? It is patently unfair and insulting to penalize the
Researcher with a poor rating just because the answer you hoped for
does not exist. Now you know.