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The Always Innovating Touchbook
Since netbooks started becoming popular, I’ve always wanted a tablet with an ARM processor. I just found this juicy tidbit today: The Always Innovating Touchbook. Its a tablet with an ARM processor. Not sure how I missed finding this, but it looks perfect for me. Always Innovating seems to have a very strong open source community behind them, and they fully support hacking the device to install whichever OS you choose.
As a bonus, the keyboard is detachable and the display can be stuck on your fridge since it has a magnetic back. Has anyone else out there ever heard of this thing?
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I’ve been very intrigued by it as well – I’m waiting to see what Frank K’s Open-PC shapes up to be – I’m not picky about ARM but I’d like a polished KDE netbook implementation.
I think first heard about this project in a comment a few months ago on a DOT article about Plasma/KDE.
Should get mine early December. :) Can’t wait to see KDE rocking this little qty… not sure yet which distro to take… Gentoo seems promising.
that looks really awesome. I love the magnet feature. I’ve never heard of it before though. Please post an update if you end up getting one! I would love to hear how it turns out.
wow
omfgiwantone thing
i would place an order right now if i’d be in US
I saw the demo when it came out. And I was sold right away. Too bad that I was just bought my netbook one month before so I did not want to think this Always Innovating netbook because it made me sad about Asus netbook =(
The ARM is just great idea and that you can attach the (touch)screen. What makes it even more special is you can modify it bretty well. Just open the hatch and switch/place wanted USB sticks inside to it to extend it’s features.
DO you want a GPS+3G+Bluetooth+802.11n? No problems. How about switching bluetooth to DVB-T? Just do it. Only bad thing what I have founded so far is you have limited storing space. Like attaching a 32Gb USB stick to it is somewhat expensive.
Poor guys at Always Innovating seem to be overwhelmed by pre-orders. I ordered one about two months ago and I have not fingernails left to bite!
this looks very promising.
if i’d ever want to get a netbook, i’d want sth. like this.
especially the detachable touchscreen is a killer feature (to me) .
thank u for the link.
Yeah its pretty much the best ARM netbook on the market as far as I have been able to find. Internally it’s basically a Beagle Board (www.beagleboard.org) which is a good (great) thing.
It is too expensive for me though, but I would expect it to be worth the money.
I am contemplating trying to get KDE Plasma Netbook onto SmartQ 5 or 7 as that is the only ARM netbook type hardware I can afford and you can find these at DealExtreme.com which is the cheapest with free postage added onto that!
I am really excited about ARM netbooks. Apparently both Lenovo and Dell have one on the way.