A sexy 12" capacitive touchscreen tablet, runs Linux, boots straight into a WebKit-based browser, for 300 USD. We all want that, right? Michael Arrington, of TechCrunch fame, figured last year that we indeed all want something like this, and he started working on actually developing such a device. We've seen a few prototypes already, but the "leaked" photos published of the latest prototype are nothing short of stunning.
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2008-10-23
I've been excited by the gdium last year and they didn't release. Wake me up when they release something. Until then, it is just a buzz that some news sites make up in order to create ad revenue. It's easy to make those pictures with a plastic box and the gimp, it's harder to actually make something as cool as this AND get the industrial strength to make it available to the market while keeping the thing so cool. IF it is released one day, it will become something that runs Windows and that cost $1000.
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Unrelated but here you might get more info :
http://www.gdium.com/en/product/blog
http://olph.gdium.com/
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And here there's a review of it:
http://www.laptopmag.com/review/laptops/emtec-gdium-liberty-1000.as...
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http://www.gdium.com/en/product/blog
http://olph.gdium.com/
http://www.gdium.com/en/product/liberty1000
Awesome laptop - too bad I can't purchase it. Know of a place I can order it and get shipped to New Zealand given that their website has absolutely no information on who is selling them.
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RE[2]: Too bad info is sparse
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RE[4]: Too bad info is sparse
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I am thankful that I have a choice, but I'm thankful to Kernighan and Ritchie, David Cutler, Avie Tevanian, and the people who grew FreeBSD out of the unofficial patchkit for 386BSD that it started out as. :-)
If you think Linux has anything to do with FreeBSD, OS X, UNIX in general, or Windows, or that the people responsible for Linux have in any way driven the development of the above-mentioned OSes, then you're silly. :-P I'm in no way thankful to Linus Torvalds, for example. What has he done for me or the availability of so many different OSes?
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Then why are you here?
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Edited 2009-04-10 20:25 UTC
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Put all your gamin PDFs on it and use it for GMing or playing your tabletop gaming sessions, then go to work and use my personally written Ruby apps for trackiing and calculating drug doses on the floors in the hospital. Use the built-in wireless to beam back the calcs and data to my database...i could do my work from anywhere in the hospital...sweet!
I always get excited whennew gadgets come out or are leaked..vaporware or not, at least it shows that people are thinking about stuff...
As for Windows 7, who cares? Before drawing that from its holster, y'all might wanna read the articles regarding the target audience...
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2005-12-02
FTA...
Everything that *who* uses every day? This looks like it might be good for a college student who actually has time for the above. I agree that it is a neat little toy, much like the iphone. As another poster said it could be used for web interfaces to corporate applications as well, such as for doctor's and nurses. Though I guess it could make a good first computer for a kid or high school student as well.
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2005-07-24
Be did this already. And they did it well ( I used to own one of the prototypes ).
Be, INC was ahead of its time - so sad. Good people with good ideas and excellent follow through - just bad market realities :-(
Oh well, either way, Be's BeIA pad was cool as hades, and I bet this thing is probably at least somewhat as cool. Question is who will buy it?
At $300 it is a worthwhile consideration for the budget crowd and even some businesses, much more than that and we have troubles.
--The loon
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2006-05-26
I only saw the $300 number mentioned in some poster's comments: nothing in either one of the two linked articles mentions that number, though their goal was to be able to make them for $200: I suppose $100 is a decent enough markup, and may actually allow them to break even after all the promotion costs and whatnot but nowhere in those two linked articles (articles, not comments!) is $300 ever mentioned. And... just because the goal is $200 way back when the first one was posted, means it was only a goal.
Seriously, though: I'd be surprised if they could make any money, or even make one, period, sold at $300/each. If they could commit to larger quantity hardware purchases because they had clout, it just might happen, but it'd be useful to compare their target price and their hardware in comparison with what it costs Apple (who has a history of having sufficient volumes of purchases, and has the means to make them readily ahead of time) to make an iPod Touch, the closest equivalent in hardware capacity, since the CrunchPad as envisioned in the original article has just 512 MB RAM.
Bah, checking details is so tedious 
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2006-11-12
Yes. That bezel is breathtaking!
Geez... It's just a touchscreen with a bezel -- like many other touchscreen devices.
The red one looks like an etch-a-sketch without the knobs.
Edited 2009-04-10 18:56 UTC
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