Category: Netbook

The TechCrunch CrunchPad Is The Future of Fabrication

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A fair amount of buzz today over Michael Arrington’s posting of details of his Tablet Computing prototype over on TechCrunch. Arrington is looking to make a slate-style touch screen device, running at 1024×768, and booting directly to a Webkit based browser. It looks ungainly now – although I think the Duplo based stand (*) in the demo video should be included in the retail pack – but his target of $300 retail price is ambitious and places it in the impulse buy in many tech stores. I’m not going to go down the route of many blogs that are trying

Touring with Intel, the Mid Moves Project

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Just after Le Web this year, Steve Paine approached me and asked if I’d be interested in joining the Mid Moves team, where a number of bloggers take some new Intel based Mobile Internet Devices out and about to see what they can do. So Nicole Simon is going to be all business like, Jenn Lee is going on a theme park tour of the US and Chippy is going on a multi-country tour around Europe. And me? As usual I wanted to do something a little bit different. There’s less of a geographical tour to my trip, I’m going

Google OS Running on netBook Computers

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Now it gets interesting. VentureBeat is reporting they’ve managed to get Google’s Android OS running a netbook, specifically an Asus EEE 1000H. The Operating System allegedly designed for running on mobile phones is now happily running on one of the little laptops that made such an impact on geek culture in 2008. Okay so there isn’t a full blown Office Suite yet – but you could argue that with the Google Chrome Browser running on the Asus you have a cloud computing solution, and it’s a recompilation of the OS targeted at a smartphone. There are sure to be tweaks