Leaked Pics of CrunchPad Elicit Progress Update

TechCrunch has released a few more technical details, pictures, and general comments about their CrunchPad project as a recent accidental leak saw a new round of images posted to the web. It seems that the tablet has continued to grow and evolve with the help of an Intel Atom chip (as opposed to the Via chip previously used), new software from Fusion Garage, and a bottom-up Linux install. "I wanted something I couldn't buy, and found people who said it could be built for a lot less than I imagined. The goal — a very thin and light touch screen computer, sans physical keyboard, that has no hard drive and boots directly to a browser to surf the web. The operating system exists solely to handle the hardware drivers and run the browser and associated applications. That's it."

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Re:Kinda reminds me of a Chumby

[jmorris42]

> I hope that means $250 retail and not $250 manufacturer's cost.

No, that's $250 out the loading dock of a contract manufacturer, $450-$500 retail. That this clown thinks you could sell them for $300 shows he has zero business knowledge. That he built a dedicated web browser around an Intel processor instead of ARM shows his technical skills are about average for a tech journalist. i.e. shockingly close to zero.