Crunchpad Tablet PC: Release Date and Specs
Filed under: Computers, Portable Computers & Tablets | By: Peter Chubb
Posted on: July 31, 2009 | 3 Comments
Fusion Garage and Techcrunch are hoping to have the world’s first PC tablet, Crunchpad, ready for release by November, just in time for the holiday season. The company gave The Straits Times the chance to have a look at a fully working model, who were able to have a look at how well it performs as well as study its specs list.
The upcoming Crunchpad PC tablet comes with a 12-inch touchscreen and weighs just 1.2kg. Users are able to listen to music watch YouTube videos, edit documents and much more on this new device. The in-house OS is thought to be very smooth and simple to use, but the lack of a hard drive could prove a drawback. The device will therefore run programs direct from servers, known as cloud computing.
If you wish to edit something like a document, then you will have to access the relevant software by going onto the Internet. Once you have finished work on your document, you will also have to save your work on the Internet. The race to build a tablet PC has been hotting up recently, but will the Crunchpad be launched before the much-rumored Apple Tablet also known as the iTablet.
Main Specs:
- Connectivity: WiFi & 3G, with option for mobile broadband
- Dimensions: 12.77 x 7.83 x 0.74″
- Hardware: 1.6GHz Atom & 1GB RAM
- Peripherals: 1x USB port built-in, for keyboard or mouse
- Price: Unconfirmed, estimated US$399 (approx. S$575)
- Screen: 12″
- Software: Webkit browser/operating system, developed by the Fusion Garage team
- Weight: 1.2kg
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Does anyone know if you can operate your PC remotely using the CrunchPad?
If this comes out, it’s hardly the world’s first PC tablet. Slate computers go back to the late 1980s, the first IBM Thinkpad was a slate, and every major computer company made tablets in the early 1990s. Fujitsu has continuously offered tablets since the early 1990s, and so have many others. Bill Gates himself is an advocate of tablets.
The real challenge is to create a tablet that people actually want to buy and use. Displays and batteries have come a long way, but unless something like the iPhone interface scales to larger platforms, there really isn’t a suitable software environment for a tablet.
Yes, but this is the world’s first touchscreen PC tablet