Check out the Intel-based Windows 8 tablets from seven companies (photo gallery)

Are you waiting for the day when you can run full PC applications on a tablet? That day is coming on Oct. 26, when Microsoft launches its Windows 8 operating system for PCs and tablets. Intel showed off a bunch of tablets that have its x86 microprocessors (the Intel Atom 2760, formerly code-named Clover Trail) at an event today.

Pictured above is Tom Butler, director of ThinkPad marketing at Lenovo, showing off its tablet that has business productivity apps as well as a stylus for writing or drawing. The tablets feature PC compatibility and security and are as thin as 8.5 millimeters. They weigh as little as 1.5 pounds and have as much as 10 hours of battery life.

Check out our photo gallery of all the laptops/tablets introduced today. Among the computer makers showing off their Intel-based tablets were Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Asus, Lenovo, Acer, LG, Samsung, and ZTE.

In demos, Intel showed that normal PC applications can run seamlessly on tablets. The company showed Microsoft Office, PC games, and the full iTunes Store app running on the tablet, without modification. Productivity, creativity, and vertical market apps can run on the tablets. By comparison, a lot of other PC apps have to be modified to run on Android or iOS (Apple iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) devices.

Lenovo’s Tom Butler shows off new ThinkPad tablet Lenovo's Tom Butler shows off new ThinkPad tablet. You can attach a keyboard to it. Lenovo's Tom Butler shows off new ThinkPad tablet. You can attach a keyboard to it.
The Dell Latitude 10 tablet Dell's tablet has a detachable battery. That makes it a millimeter thicker, but at 10 millimeters, who cares? It's thin, fast, and business-focused. Dell's tablet has a detachable battery. That makes it a millimeter thicker, but at 10 millimeters, who cares? It's thin, fast, and business-focused.
Dell Latitude 10 back view Here you can see that you can remove the battery from the Dell Latitude. If you slap in another, you can get 10 more hours of life from it.
Acer’s Intel-based tablet This tablet has a 9-hour battery in the detachable touchscreen tablet, and another 9-hour battery in the keyboard base. That gives you 18 hours of battery life.
Intel-based Acer tablet keyboard This keyboard can be quickly attached or detached from Acer's new tablet.
Our three-handed demo of Acer tablet Yes, we can demo this tablet with three hands. The Acer 10-inch tablet can scroll side to side at very fast speeds.
Asus tablet The Asus laptop-tablet convertible comes with a stylus you can use to draw pictures or write on the screen. It can then convert the handwriting to text.
HP’s Envy x2 Is it a laptop? Is it a tablet? It's both.
Lauren Berger, the Intern Queen, introduced Intel’s tablet event Lauren Berger, the Intern Queen, talked about how millennials relate to tablets. She's the author of All Work, No Pay
Samsung’s Intel-based tablet Samsung also came to the party with a tablet with a detachable keyboard.
Side view of Samsung’s Intel-based tablet Is this one thin enough for you? Samsung's 10-inch tablet is sliver thin.
Razor thin is in at ZTE ZTE also showed up with a thin tablet with a 10-hour battery life.