DreamBook: Where Ultrabook Meets Tablet

With the introduction of Intel’s Ultrabook category, and the hype surrounding tablets, computers are being released in a variety of form factors; some great, others downright whacky.

Heck, just last week Microsoft unveiled a tablet with a soft keyboard and a kickstand. Yep, even the traditionalist software manufacturer is venturing into hardware. How times are a-changing.

Now Pioneer computers are giving a new form factor a go, and they’re marketing department has coined the series the ‘DreamBook.’

The DreamBook satisfies all of the criteria needed to be an Ultrabook, but with a detachable ten-point touch screen that can operate independently as a tablet.

Aside from the detachable screen, it still offers the same cocktail you’d get from a cutting edge Ultrabook. It features Intel’s latest Ivy Bridge processors, Intel HD 4000 graphics, Up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM and SATA3 storage ranging from 32GB to 128GB.

Connectivity is just as well equipped, with the DreamBook including a USB 3.0 port, MicroSD card reader and Bluetooth 4.0.

The tablet component features a 1.3MP front facing camera and a 2MP rear camera capable of 720p video recording. NFC and a finger print reader are also optional extras.

A bare-boned DreamBook will set you back $1,199, but almost everything is an optional extra, including the introductory Windows 7 OS which is priced at $99.

A DreamBook with a 2.6GHz i5 processor, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of SSD memory, the optional Bluetooth module, front and rear camera, and Windows 7 Home Premium totals to $1,564.

At that price, Pioneer’s DreamBook is one whacky device.