Pepper Pad, an Open Alternative to MS Origami

SilentBob4 writes to tell us that MadPenguin has a look at an open alternative to Microsoft's Origami, the Pepper Pad. From the article: "The Pepper Pad, like Origami, is a mid-point form factor PC that is bigger and more powerful than a PDA, but smaller and less optimized for traditional desktop PC tasks than a notebook computer or a desktop PC. The Pepper Pad is a good buy for people who would like to have a light-weight, dirt-simple, point-and-click open source device for watching videos, listening to music, reading e-books, and doing simple web surfing with a view screen that is actually easy to read. If you want do more than that, you are really better off getting a small Linux notebook, unless you are willing to get under the hood (which you can do with the Pepper Pad!) and start compiling for yourself."

Comments

Re:"cable with the large USB ports"

[dbIII]

doesn't do host to host, which is why these cables don't exist

In a way they do - only it's called firewire.

The Mac to Mac networking via firewire cable is one of the things that has impressed me with that platform for years. I'm surpised that almost the most up to date similar item with a PC is the venerable and slow parallel port laplink cable.