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 pre-ordered and allegedy shipping in July, but I haven't had a shipment notification nor has my credit card been charged yet.
- Ed On Jul 7, 2009, at 4:53 PM, John Gilmore wrote: > 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. The two are connected via USB (and the > keyboard provides a second battery, doubling life to 10 hrs). $299 in > quantity one ($399 with keyboard). Fanless, uses TI OMAP3, internal > SDHC card for storage, internal USB slots for connectivity. Open > source oriented company, running Linux, XFCE, etc (Ångström Distro, > which started from OpenEmbedded). They are willing to license the > hardware design, or even give it away to open-source-oriented > projects. Motherboard is tiny; photo below. > > http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/home/ > http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/company/design.htm > http://www.magniel.com/omaplaptop.html > > What it doesn't have that the XO-2 wants: > > * Multi-touch or all-fingers touch-screen-keyboard. > * Mary Lou's screens. > * Camera > * Two screens (however I bet you could attach two of them to each > other with a little bit of USB host/host connection glue). > > FYI. > > John > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel