The Archos 9 PCtablet has been somewhat overshadowed by its smaller, Android-based sibling, but the French company would like to remind you that, with the debut of Windows 7, the 9-inch touchscreen “future of netbooks” is now available to buy. £449.99 ($748) gets you a resistive touchscreen, Atom Z515 processor and integrated WiFi and Bluetooth, all in a device 800g and just 1.7cm thick.

Live Archos 9 hands-on gallery after the cut

The Archos 9 display runs at 1,024 x 600, but Archos are claiming it can deal with 1080p Full HD video; you’ll need to plug in an external monitor to make the most of that, but sadly there’s only a VGA port on offer rather than HDMI.  The hard-drive is also pretty paltry if you’re looking at storing HD content, being a mere 60GB in size.

Connectivity includes two USB 2.0 ports, the aforementioned VGA, audio in/out and 10/100 ethernet.  A 1.3-megapixel webcam is integrated, and Archos will happily sell you a matching Bluetooth QWERTY keyboard.  Check out our hands-on report here.

Press Release:

ARCHOS Launches the ARCHOS 9 PCTABLET

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