An Alternative To The iPad
Joe M posted in products on February 5th, 2010
Okay…
For those people not sure about the iPad, and those people that are not necessarily Apple fans…
I came across this.
The iPad looks cool. Right?
But…
Some of the buzz around the iPad has characterized it in a certain light.
There are things that everyone agrees on.
It looks like a big iPod Touch.
It’s cool.
Battery life is reported to be 10 hours.
The downside?
Apple keeps a tight hold over apps that will run on it.
It’s proprietarily controlled.
Adobe Flash is not being allowed to run on it.
But…
Talk about another product, that is open… and also cool?
Alwaysinnovating.com has developed a netbook / tablet.
(The top part dismounts from the keyboard.)
It’s ARM processor based.
It runs several different flavors of Linux… (And… inherently, Adobe Flash).
The battery life is between three and five hours, off the base.
It comes with 512 MB of RAM. You can buy more, later on.
It has an 8 GB SDHC solid state drive.
It does not support multi-touch… but, for the offering, that does not bother me.
Get ready…
The sweetest part?
The tablet alone, costs $299.
The tablet with the keyboard / stand, costs $399.
Keep in mind… it has an ARM processor.
That means that it lies outside of the support offering for running and flavor of Windows.
That is, until Microsoft decides to start supporting Windows on the ARM-based platforms.