My Dream PC is no more

I've been permanently attached to my trusty tablet PC over the last few months, and have grown a bit impatient with its sluggishness. It's three years old, and I was interested in obtaining something more powerful. Here are my requirements:

• WACOM pen compatible
  


• More than 3 gigs of memory
  


• DVD reader/writer
  


• 64-bit OS capable
  


• At least 2.2 GHz
  


• Less than $1500
  

I was happy to see it existed in Gateway's C-142XL. Gateway's tablet PCs have been underrated by review forums online. For some reason, Gateway has avoided the "tablet" tag and instead opted for "convertible"– perhaps this is a weight issue – but the result is that Gateway tablets fail to show up as competition for the Lenovos or Toshibas. At any rate after finally calling Gateway directly (1-800-GATEWAY will most likely redirect you to one of their preferred vendors), I found out the bad news. Gateway will no longer be making any tablet PCs. It appears that my dream machine was made in limited quantities this summer but it's no more.

There are two that come close:

• HP Pavilion tx1420: lacks the speed and screen size of the once C-142XL
  


• Fujitsu T4220: more expensive, slower, less memory than the once C-142XL