Archos 9 Tablet PC Shipping Delayed [Archos 9 Pre-Orders Now Delayed Till December, Will Hit Shelves in 2010]

Archos have acted to confirm that shipping of its latest tablet PC, the Archos 9, is now set to be delayed with those who have pre-ordered the Archos 9 now having to wait till next month before potentially getting their hands on the 8.9” Windows 7 powered UMPC. And, it’s worse news still if you haven’t pre-ordered as its not not set to hit shelves until 2010.

Originally set to hit retail on October 22^nd, there’s been no official word concerning what has caused the Archos 9’s release to be delayed but Archos have confirmed that pre-orders will not commence shipping now until early December whilst the device won’t become available via other means (such as online portals like Amazon and high street stores) until sometime in Q1 next year.

Of course this may transpire to be somewhat of a nail in the coffin as far as the Archos 9 Tablet PC is concerned as Intel are scheduled to roll out their new Atom CPUs sometime in the new year which will really serve to undermine the new Archos tablet which comes powered by a 1.1GHz Atom Z515. At that juncture we suspect that Archos will have to make one of two somewhat unpalatable choices – either drop the price of the Archos 9 rather significantly or accept that sales will doubtless be impacted.

Either ways, one thing’s for sure – that whatever the hold up is, it must be for a pretty significant reason (and one that Archos would rather not talk about, which is telling in itself).