Comments on: The Always Innovating Touchbook

By: DDevine

DDevine — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:55:52 +0000

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.

By: Thomas G

Thomas G — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:34:10 +0000

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.

By: KenP

KenP — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:29:17 +0000

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!

By: Fri13

Fri13 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:52:27 +0000

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.

By: gfdsa

gfdsa — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:46:59 +0000

wow
omfgiwantone thing
i would place an order right now if i’d be in US

By: Máirín Duffy

Máirín Duffy — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:50:10 +0000

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.

By: Thomas Eichinger

Thomas Eichinger — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:32:00 +0000

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.

By: V

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:06:52 +0000

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.