CUPP’s PunkThis graduates to tablets, earns some extent in security (hands-on video)

Remember CUPP Computing ‘s PunkThis board we played with at Computex 2011 ? It’s now left the confines of its 2.5-inch harddisk form-factor and jumped ship from a typical Asus netbook to a Core i5-equipped Eee Slate EP121 , taking residence alongside the tablet’s battery. As a refresher, PunkThis puts an entire ARM-based system into an x86 computer by replacing the SATA HDD with a single core 1GHz Texas Instruments OMAP 3730 processor, 512MB RAM and WiFi, together with a mini-PCie socket for SSD storage, plus connectors for the hosts video, audio and USB interfaces. While CUPP computing continues to be working hard to make PunkThis commercially available for tech-savvy individuals, it acquired Israeli security company Yoggie last July and built this demo machine to draw another type of customer.

The tablet we tested was running Windows 7 Home Premium and Android 2.3.4 simultaneously, and was equipped with one more button for switching between x86 and ARM modes. Because the Asus EP121 already uses a mini-PCIe SSD as opposed to 2.5-inch SATA storage, a prototype PunkThis board was designed to suit alongside a modified battery. Gingerbread didn’t break a sweat supporting both the 1280×800-pixel glass-capacitive touchscreen and pen-based Wacom digitizer because of some additional hardware and software tweaks. Beyond the facility to change between Windows for heavy lifting and Android for improved battery life, it’s possible to exploit both x86 and ARM environments while. Imagine antivirus and firewall software running at the PunkThis board in mission-critical security applications for enterprise, and it is simple to determine where CUPP Computing goes with this. Take a look at the gallery below and our hands-on video after the break.

Source

This post is tagged: critical security, firewall software, israeli security, savvy individuals, security applications, Texas Instruments