Touch Book
I ordered one of these guys a few months back:
Always Innovating's TouchBook
This is an ARM CPU (TI OMAP3530: the same Cortex A8 as the BeagleBoard) based netbook/tablet. I'm not expecting this to necessarily become my main portable device, but it looks like it has a lot of promise. They are doing their own Linux image, which is kind of interesting, but advertise other distros and setups such as Android as being already running. Drivers will require futzing for other distros of course. Although, I really can't see Android working on a netbook. The fatal flaw of projects such as Moblin in the past has been in treating these smaller computers as being less than real computers. These are very capable machines being able to run a full desktop enviroment. There's no need to treat them as a traditional PDA with a slimmed down OS. Android might look good on a smartphone, but would be completely wasting the hardware of a real computer. Ya, I'm not a big fan of Android. Always Innovating is doing a tradition desktop alongt with a "3D Menu System" that is based on the touchscreen. Having been working on these types of UIs for a while now I'm very curious to see what they have put together there. But it's all moot, considering the fact that they haven't even shipped mine yet. There are reviews out there by people who have actually received these machines and the reaction seems mixed. I will be making my own conclusion on this one. Hopefully soon.
Always Innovating's TouchBook
This is an ARM CPU (TI OMAP3530: the same Cortex A8 as the BeagleBoard) based netbook/tablet. I'm not expecting this to necessarily become my main portable device, but it looks like it has a lot of promise. They are doing their own Linux image, which is kind of interesting, but advertise other distros and setups such as Android as being already running. Drivers will require futzing for other distros of course. Although, I really can't see Android working on a netbook. The fatal flaw of projects such as Moblin in the past has been in treating these smaller computers as being less than real computers. These are very capable machines being able to run a full desktop enviroment. There's no need to treat them as a traditional PDA with a slimmed down OS. Android might look good on a smartphone, but would be completely wasting the hardware of a real computer. Ya, I'm not a big fan of Android. Always Innovating is doing a tradition desktop alongt with a "3D Menu System" that is based on the touchscreen. Having been working on these types of UIs for a while now I'm very curious to see what they have put together there. But it's all moot, considering the fact that they haven't even shipped mine yet. There are reviews out there by people who have actually received these machines and the reaction seems mixed. I will be making my own conclusion on this one. Hopefully soon.