Yeah the touchbook,it can run some ported iPhone applications it seems too interestingly.
Dave On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis <[email protected]>wrote: > > On 12 Mar 2010, at 05:17, ron minnich wrote: > > http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/home/ >> >> $400 but it has a long backlog it seems. >> >> ron >> >> > Very nice looking little thing and the internal USB is a great idea. I > almost got to saying "I want one," but I started comparing it to my Zaurus > which was about that price some years ago. For my purposes the Touch Book > has half again the clock speed and double the battery life of my old Z, plus > a nicer screen and keyboard. The latter two aren't worth it not fitting in > my pocket, although I'm sure they will be to others. The Touch Book also has > 8 times the RAM my Zaurus has, but what would you use 512MB for in a Plan 9 > terminal-like device? > > I feel a bit bad about running it down because I think the company shows a > lovely attitude in trying to support as many Linux distros as they can, but > the 512MB just says to me, "this was made for the wonderful Technologies of > XML and object oriented design." > >
