Always Innovating has taken a completely different approach to the cluttered netbook market with their Touch Book Tablet Laptop. It’s a tablet computer that uses an 8.9″ touchscreen, but you can also use it with a dockable keyboard and touchpad that essentially turns it into a laptop. The Always Innovating Touch Book should be available sometime this month for $300, plus an extra $100 for the keyboard. It’s not a powerhouse compared to other netbooks in the price range, but it really shows what the core principle of a netbook should be: flexible, mobile, inexpensive, basic computing.
The Details:
- 10 Battery Life with a single charge. (Two batteries, 1 in the keyboard “dock”, 1 in the Screen.)
- Completely Solid State – No fans, no booting up, no shutting down, always on.
- Under 3 lbs.
- b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth.
- Accelerometer.
- 3 USB ports.
- OS – Custom Linux Distribution running from an SD card. (Currently working on an Android distribution.)
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