Joining the race for the ultimate tablet pc experience: Canada! The province of indomitable French-Canadians, still holding out against All-English invaders, has created one of the new high-tech startups set out to take on the big Apple: “ExoPC”! Offering an tablet computer – named “VIBE” – the startup, a subsidiary of St. Laurent-based “Groupe Hypertec”, has developed its own software to layer on top of the Windows 7 Operating System. Unlike Android, Windows 7 works on tablet pcs larger than 7 inches in screen size and allows for the company’s device to be a whopping 11 inches.

And what a feisty little bugger it is: Armed with everything a future tablet pc owner can wish for, from a front-facing webcam to an SD card reader and 2 USB ports, the device also sports 2GB of RAM, processing speed of 1.66 GHz, and 32GB or 64GB of storage to choose from. The VIBE is powered by an Intel Atom N450 processor, and claims to offer 4 hrs of battery life.

Named after the company, the ExoPC OS offers its own development kit and apparently makes it easy to adapt mobile applications to work within the Expo environment.
To make the offering even more attractive and complete , ExoPC will have its own app store with an estimated 1000 applications available by the end of 2010.

The company is expected to start shipping their tablet pc this week and pre-orders are going to 1.100 customers in 34 countries. Find out more here: http://www.exopc.com/