Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Mon 6th Jul 2009 18:52 UTC
We all remember the saliva-inducing CrunchPad whose photos were "leaked" back in April; the tablet has a yummy 12" touchscreen, boots straight into a customized Webkit browser running atop a Linux core, has an Intel Atom processor, and is designed to be sold for under $300. As it turns out, it's nigh on to be released as Michael Arrington, the one behind the idea, will be debuting the device at "an event" later in July or early in August. After that, the tablet is supposed to be available "as soon as possible," though just when and where is still unknown. Hopefully "as soon as possible" is a matter of a few weeks after the event. The sub-$300 idea is giving me itches for it to be on sale now.
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If you're going to lug something of that size around... why put up with the lack of a keyboard? But just imagine if they gave it a clamshell design with a real keyboard. It wouldn't even need the touchscreen, then. Now *that* would be both exciting and original!
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If you're going to lug something of that size around... why put up with the lack of a keyboard?
Because touch screens are the "in thing" at the moment, regardless of whether they'd be the best tool for the job. They have their place, but in this case I'd agree with you--on something that large, where there is room for a keyboard, there should most definitely be one.
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