Been thinking about settling down with an XP netbook but can't get the idea of an Android tablet out of your mind? We understand your pain -- and so does Taiwan's Institute for Information Industry, which is showing off the Mtube II netbook / tablet at
Computex. The slick remix of an HP Mini 1000 runs XP when in netbook configuration, but then switches over to Android on an unspecified ARM processor when the screen is pulled off and used as a tablet. Yes, it's basically the product most of us have daydreamed about for ages -- much like the
Touch Book -- but there are some tradeoffs here: first, the Atom in the netbook base has been swapped for a VIA C7-M, so it's not exactly a rocket, and second, the screen is connected by VNC, so video performance isn't going to be all that great. We're hoping the additional year of development III says it needs will solve some of those problems, but until then you know we'll be doodling this thing all through math class. Videos after the break.
posted Jun 5th 2009 1:07PM
Math class?
Awesome idea...... But that caddy looks like it'll break pretty quickly.....
will the real slim shady who suffer from trying to get an android tablet, please stand up
Seems like it would be a better design to just use an atom processor in the screen and then just have the keyboard/usb ports/etc in the base. Especially since cupcake made android compatible with x86.
+1 I was going to say the same thing looool.
I think the idea is that if you are going to use it as a netbook you would have the VIA processor (probably could not get a license with intel to work with) and when you pull it off to switch to tablet mode, it switches to the arm processor because you really wont be needed it to do anything processor intensive such as writing a document, etc and it would conserve power
@codezeromind: Ya, I understand that but what's the point of having an ARM processor in the screen? If you just put the Atom processor(or VIA in this case) in the screen then it could run off that for both, since there's certainly no loss in doing so. It would also cost less and would perform better in both modes since it doesn't have to deal with having 2 processors or use VNC for anything.
Obsessed with Android much?
Yep
The Eee 701 finally has competition for bezel size.
Yeah, that screen bezel is unacceptable. Making a small device is cool, and a small screen is a tradeoff. But trying to make a not-so-small device seem smaller by reducing the screen size is stupid.
Maybe they should classify laptops/netbooks by their outer dimensions, not their screen dimensions?
I had the same idea in mind but much more globally and powerful. For instance you can have a powerhouse of a desktop somewhere in your house and access it wirelessly through a portable screen as small and thin as an e-reader. This way the pc can be in any place of the house so to speak. On more stronger pc's multiple users can run multiple instances of the OS at the same time.
For artists this could be great. They could use stuff like photoshop or zbrush anywhere they like. Like the couch or bed without being gleud to a desk.
You can already basically do that by getting a tablet or MID that has VNC.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/smartdisplay/default.mspx
From 2005. It never took off, although I am running such a system at home to access my server.
The leas they could have done was use the better Via Nano chip.
*nerdgasm*
it may look cools and all but be aware its a product of china it might be crap (not being racist or anything but products from china are usually bad)
Man i totally though of this and submitted it to asus/intel.................. finally it comes to life!!!!!!!
http://www.wepc.com/vote/view/idea/2529/NetDock_
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Good. The things are so damn tiny they deserve to be convertible.
What they should do is put a usb input on the tablet and add some display and vista/windows 7 tablet drivers to it as well so that you can also plug it into your other desktop/laptop and use it as an external tablet screen. That would be so money.