We all remember the saliva-inducing CrunchPad whose photos were “leaked” back in April; the tablet has a yummy 12″ touchscreen, boots straight into a customized Webkit browser running atop a Linux core, has an Intel Atom processor, and is designed to be sold for under $300. As it turns out, it’s nigh on to be released as Michael Arrington, the one behind the idea, will be debuting the device at “an event” later in July or early in August. After that, the tablet is supposed to be available “as soon as possible,” though just when and where is still unknown. Hopefully “as soon as possible” is a matter of a few weeks after the event. The sub-$300 idea is giving me itches for it to be on sale now.
Just use a Pixel Qi screen and we are in business.
Quite agree. For most of us (and with ‘us’ I mean professional users), we don’t need color that much and the ability to use it in sunlight plus the extra battery are great.
If you’re going to lug something of that size around… why put up with the lack of a keyboard? But just imagine if they gave it a clamshell design with a real keyboard. It wouldn’t even need the touchscreen, then. Now *that* would be both exciting and original!
Edited 2009-07-06 20:03 UTC
Because touch screens are the “in thing” at the moment, regardless of whether they’d be the best tool for the job. They have their place, but in this case I’d agree with you–on something that large, where there is room for a keyboard, there should most definitely be one.
They would have pry my trustful fujitsu P1610 from my cold hands.
Just thinking out loud: in the SF Bay Area, later this month will be OSCON 2009 (in San Jose), and then early next month will be OpenSource World 2009 (at the Moscone Center)…
Michael Arrington lives in Southern California?
Hmm….
Been looking forward to one of these since it was announced last year. Crossing my fingers for it be around $250.