Re: Touch-screen OMAP3-based netbook as XO-2 prototype?

2009-07-08 Thread Ed McNierney
John - Thanks for keeping this on the radar. I have a pair on order (one with keyboard, one without) in the hopes of both doing some experimenting and trying out that USB host/host connection glue, too. I'll let the list know when we get them here at 1CC to play with - they're

Touch-screen OMAP3-based netbook as XO-2 prototype?

2009-07-07 Thread John Gilmore
The new Touch Book by Always Innovating looks interesting as a possible prototype for the XO-2. It looks vaguely like an ordinary netbook, but the electronics are behind the screen as in the XO-1, as is one of the batteries. So the keyboard half can detach from the screen/electronics package.