The Netbook Killer
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Now, the netbooks blowing around EeePC & Co., a cold wind around the nose: The next generation of Internet devices is in the starting blocks. The Crunchpad, a 12-inch touch screen with a completely laid out to the Web system, is about to launch.
Now it is clear how it will look Crunchpad: 12-inch touch screen, only 18 millimeters thick, an aluminum housing, just under three pounds and HD resolution. You do not need a keyboard – for keywords Comments or brief e-mails you have an onscreen keyboard. An operating system has the Crunchpad not only an Internet browser is launched.
Therefore, the Crunchpad comes out with less computing power as the functions of a computer to cease operating. A first impression of the control you see in the demo of the software developer Fusion Garage:
The screen has a screen ratio of 4:3 with a resolution of 1024 pixels on to 768 – enough to see in most web pages without scrolling the entire content. The processor is a Via Nano, which, according to developer Michael Arrington responded quickly in tests than Intel’s Atom processor. The speed is easy to surf the Internet
should be sufficient. One gigabyte of RAM, four gigabytes of hard drive as storage for the browser and downloads.
On other hardware developers wireless receiver, a camera for video chat, a microphone and a headphone jack have donated. This is a vibration sensor that detects the iPhone as the switch between portrait and landscape mode. The Crunchpad can then switch from portrait to landscape mode to display movies on the Internet, for example greater.
Originally Crunchpad was just a small project of Internet guru and TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington. Today is also involved in the project, Louis Monier, who developed the search engine Altavista bedrock. Arrington wanted a pure device for surfing on the sofa – the Internet without drives, operating system and keyboard. As the price are two hundred to three hundred U.S. dollars visualized, accurate you will learn at the launch in July.
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