New Netbook From Always Innovating Boasts 15-Hour Battery Life, Touchscreen
Posted 03/02/09 at 03:21:48 PM by Andy Salisbury
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At today’s DEMO conference Always Innovating plans to debut their new netbook, which will offer 10 to 15 hours of battery life, weighs under two pounds and will feature a touchscreen, all for less than an Amazon Kindle.
Always Innovating will offer a base model of the netbook for $299 that will not feature a touchscreen, but will have an ARM Texas Insturments OMAP3 processor, a 1024x600 8.9-inch screen, 8GB of flash storage, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth, and 6 USB ports. For $100 more, you can upgrade to the touchscreen version.
It’s reported that the Touch Book will be available in the U.S. around May or June 2009.
Image Credit: Always Innovating
Touchscreens lose their
Submitted by diamond_ops on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 4:40pm
Touchscreens lose their allure after awhile. Not worth it.
Submitted by danmichaels on Sat, 07/18/2009 - 4:52am
Are there any functional benefits yet, or are we going to have to wait for other hardware/software to catch up?
I'd much rather
Submitted by HellTempest on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 2:00pm
Have more storage than a touchscreen.
I want that convertable
Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 2:21pm
I want that convertable tablet netbook with more storage.
To the manufacturers, We want our cake and eat it too.
Submitted by N25PHILLY on Tue, 03/03/2009 - 5:35am
http://www.dynamism.com/gigabyte_m912.shtml
Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Tue, 03/03/2009 - 10:04am
Thanks for that... The convertable Netbook tablet is only $699 and that will come down in price quickly..
really 8 GB? And how much is
Submitted by nekollx on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 2:26pm
really 8 GB? And how much is the OS taking up?
Seriously you need to offer a 'book with more storage then my $10 thumbdrive
Storage isn't the point of a
Submitted by AntiHero on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 4:45pm
Storage isn't the point of a netbook. A netbook is for doing small IT work like plugging into a server via the dock, and accessing it, elaving more space in the rack, or being able to use a Virtual Server from anywhere (Referring to Rogers' Rocket Stick as the conncetivity factor for example) and being able to move about freely. It's all about virtualization for the most part. Or it works for remoting to a desktop pc. The os is merely a middle man to the real ideas behind it. It's more for travelling businessmen who wish to ONLY login to something to check mails, or something like that. Not meant for storing data like a laptop is. Netbooks are basically a small time tool used for work. Good to take notes on in college probably, i've never used one. You have to think in those terms, not storage. Flash storage is hard to come by in large quantities. If you want a shitload of storage, duct tape an external HDD to it (like my WD one)
Submitted by nekollx on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 5:11pm
im not taking 4 TB here but its a laptop form factor, keyboard, track pad, wifi, monitor. If in install OpenOffice to do some light work processing or spread sheets, you know the kinds of thing a decand old Desktop can do, 8 GB is laughable, expecially when half of that is goign to be eaten by the OS/Pagfile/Web Cache.
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