Toshiba’s new dual-screen, touch-screen laptop, the Libretto W100, is better suited to content creation than Apple’s iPad, believes Mashahiko Fukakushi, a senior executive at the Japanese consumer electronics giant.

The iPad is for passive consumption, while the Libretto W100 and other similar devices excel at content production, said Fukakushi at an event to mark the launch of Toshiba’s new product range.

“Apple’s iPad is probably creating a new market in terms of consuming information, browsing and reading books,” he said. “But when it comes to creation or production … we think what we have been doing still has a lot of value. We want to continue to do both.”

The Libretto W100 runs Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system, and has two 7in, LED-backlit touch-screens. Toshiba says its compact size and clamshell form factor provides “unrivalled flexibility”

Users type on a virtual keyboard, which boasts haptic feedback to provide a physical sense of keys being pressed.

Source: telegraph.co.uk/technology/7846564/Apple-iPad-is-a-consumption-device-says-Toshiba.html