Always Innovating Touchbook Shipping
Posted on 19 August 2009, at 10:24 am, by Joel McLaughlin
I decided to check on Always Innovating’s unique netbook style device, and lo and behold they are now on their way to people who have pre-ordered the device. They have also added some updates to their gallery.
This netbook is running an OMAP processor, 8 GB of SD storage, 802.11 b/g/n, and a unique setup for the USB ports as well with 4 of them being internal and 4 external for a whopping 8 ports!
They had this picture of the Touchbook in a box…
They also had screenshots of the Linux based OS that is shipping on this device.
This is a picture of the app launcher on the device.
It is available for ordering on the Always Innovating web site for $299 (without the keyboard) and $399 for one with a keyboard. They are currently in a backlog situation, so it may take a while for you to get one – but at least it’s ‘more real’ right now!
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August 19th, 2009 at 11:17 am
Joel – do you have any experience / knowledge of the TI OMAP processor in terms of performance? I know the Pre uses a variant, but haven’t heard of other netbook / tablets using it?
August 19th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Well, a lot of phones use omap or a varient of omap. It is a varient of the arm chip. So I would not expect for this to be able to play hd video. This is a netbook in every sense. It is not a everyday computer. It is also never going to be able to run Windows.
August 19th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Cool – I haven’t stayed up on ARM variants.
I looked at what they said:
- 15 hours of battery life
- No fans, so it is noise-free.
- supposedly performance is pretty solid as well.
Sounds good – thanks for the info!