Microsoft shows off tablet computer
Posted on January 7, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer showed off a new tablet-style computer from Hewlett-Packard during his CES keynote recently. The HP Slate has multitouch capability and can do some gaming. “Tablet-style computers that run Windows have been available for a decade, but HP’s machine is bound to draw extra attention, thanks to expectations that Apple will launch a similar device this month,” NZ Herald News wrote. The slate –one-piece portable computer without a physical keyboard– will be available “later this year.”
[images via Gizmodo]
Lenovo combines laptop with tablet
Posted on January 5, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech
Thinking about a tablet computer instead of a laptop? Lenovo is offering both at the same time. They will be using the Consumer Electronics Show this week to announce the IdeaPad U1. According to WSJ, the unusual hybrid product can function as a conventional clamshell-style laptop, or detach the 11.6-inch screen and use it like a tablet. Interesting!
What?! $75 tablet computer?
Posted on December 23, 2009 by Budi Putra in Tech
YOU MAY START TO WISH YOU WERE a third-grade child in Burundi, since you will have a chance to enjoy this future computer. Designer Yves
Behar shares images of the the world’s cheapest PC and the upgrade version of so-called XO computer –previously known as the “$100 Laptop” or “Children’s Machine”. As we know, this is part of One Laptop Per Child, MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte’s non-profit effort.
That revamped machine, known as the XO-3 and targeted for release in 2012, is still more of a pipe dream than a product. But early designs for the PC reveal a minimalist slate of touch-powered electronics that drops practically every feature of a traditional computer except its 8.5-by-11-inch screen, a scheme that would shed all of the first XO’s child-like clunkiness without losing its simple accessibility.
The non-profit organization’s mission
is “To create educational opportunities for the world’s poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.”
The CrunchPad saga, the Arrington tale
Posted on December 8, 2009 by Budi Putra in Tech
YEAH IT’S A BIT CONFUSING to follow the Crunchpad saga: TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington declared to sell a “dead-simple Web tablet for $200″ called CrunchPad more than a year ago, despite his zero experience as a gadget maker. Scheduled to ship to the shoppers two weeks ago, but at the last minute, Arrington told that the production contractor, Fusion Garage, had decided to sell the product themselves.
Fusion Garage CEO Chandrasekar Rathakrishnan recently introduced JooJoo, the new name of CrunchPad. Why he left Arrington? “Unfortunately, Michael was unable to deliver. Michael was completely unable to deliver,” he said in an video conference, recently. “There aren’t any more CrunchPad posts coming from us. It’s all in the lawyers hands now,” Arrington responded on Twitter on Monday afternoon.
That’s the whole story.
[via Venture Beat]
