Computers-Plus

Olivetti’s no carioca. It’s a bonafide Italiano electronics company, but that didn’t stop its latest round of tablets from making an appearance south of the equator. Shown off at the 2011 Eletrolarshow in Brazil, the 10-inch Olipad 110 made its second video appearance to strut its sleek NVIDIA Tegra 2-processing, Honeycomb-operating stuff. The successor to the Olipad throne also brought its little brother, the Olipad 70, to the party — rocking a 7-inch capacitive display, Android 2.3 Gingerbread, WiFi and Bluetooth.

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In this week’s edition of “Steve Jobs Said What!?,” the CEO Maximum PC readers love to loathe told The Wall Street Journal PCs aren’t long for this world, while devices like tablets are the wave of the future.

“The transformation of the PC to new form factors like the tablet is going to make some people uneasy because the PC has taken us a long ways,” Jobs said in response to a question by The Wall Street Journal’s Steve Mossberg. “The PC is brilliant … and we like to talk about the post-PC era, but it’s uncomfortable.”

Jobs went on to say that “PCs are like trucks,” making a reference to a time when trucks used by farmers were more common than cars.

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ARM thinks it will be powering half of all tablets (if not the vast majority of them) by 2011, while Intel already has a processor roadmap in place for this emerging market. And what about AMD? Well, they’re not as gung-ho as the other major chip makers, and instead will wait until market demand picks up, says Rich Bergman, AMD senior vice president and general manager of Products Group.

Is anyone else feeling a sense of déjà vu here? This is essentially the same approach the No. 2 chip maker took with the netbook market, and now that it’s clear netbooks are here to stay, AMD is playing a losing game of catch-up with Intel whose Atom platform has become synonymous with netbooks. <

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Wacom has introduced a new range of graphic + pen tablets, called Bambo, which each combines multi-touch functionality and pen tablet technology in a single device.

Basically the Wacom Bamboo range consists of a number of input devices including the Bamboo Pen & Touch, Bamboo Fun Pen & Touch, Bamboo Pen* and Bamboo Touch, which each can be hooked up to your computer’s USB port to be used as an inpout device to manipulate graphics and text on your computer.

Depending on the device, each of them you’ll normally have a touch tablet or a pen, or both. The

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