http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/ Engadget Comments for Always Innovating's Touch Book now shipping http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/Aug 2nd 2009 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/Aug 2nd 2009 4:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/Aug 2nd 2009 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/Aug 2nd 2009 9:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/Aug 2nd 2009 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/Aug 2nd 2009 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/Aug 2nd 2009 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/Aug 2nd 2009 8:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/Aug 2nd 2009 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/Aug 2nd 2009 6:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/]]>Aug 2nd 2009 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/they already used 'stem cell' in computing, so maybe they should move on to "human clone" computing... just as unrelated, but just a sure to garner press due to its weird ass name scheme.]]>Aug 2nd 2009 4:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/Aug 2nd 2009 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/Aug 2nd 2009 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/
Ps : not a english native speaker, forgive me :)]]>Aug 2nd 2009 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/
Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!]]>Aug 2nd 2009 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/Aug 2nd 2009 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/Aug 2nd 2009 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/Aug 2nd 2009 11:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/
And, they couldn't use external RAM because they were using a tweaked Beagleboard design, which doesn't support it.]]>Aug 5th 2009 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/Aug 2nd 2009 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/Aug 2nd 2009 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/Aug 2nd 2009 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/Aug 2nd 2009 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/
Why are you so grumpy?]]>Aug 2nd 2009 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/Aug 2nd 2009 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/
I forgot that Apple invented the silver case, block around the screen, and the keyboard.]]>Aug 2nd 2009 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/Aug 2nd 2009 8:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/Aug 3rd 2009 3:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/Aug 7th 2009 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/

-Hugh Spaz]]>Aug 9th 2009 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/
little bit confused though. 3/5 of the "book" is only there to offer the keyboard & trackpad? or do you lose other stuff by disconnecting it?]]>Aug 2nd 2009 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/Aug 2nd 2009 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/
http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/company/opensource.htm
]]>Aug 2nd 2009 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/Aug 2nd 2009 6:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/"A. The Touch Book will ship with the Touch Book OS by default."
http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/touchbook/faqs.htm

it appears their actual licensing isn't available to read (that I could find) so my "proprietary" argument is mute. however, something simply being open source doesn't eliminate it from being proprietary (there are many examples like sun/java past proprietary "open source" licensing).

the actual point I was going for however is that when your hardware runs it's own custom OS by default, it brings up serious capability questions. unless the machine has major problems with the "can install many other OSes," why would anyone not ship with one of the well known and trusted OS on it instead.]]>Aug 2nd 2009 10:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/
Since it is essentially just like a BeagleBoard, I'm sure standard Angstrom, Android, Gentoo, and the Pandora OS would load up just fine on the unit.]]>Aug 3rd 2009 4:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/
Am I reading that right? ARM Cortex A8 2 600mhz?
I dont think this'll be a snappy computer.. But with a linux os, I may be wrong..

link: http://www.design-reuse.com/news/21048/t-omap3530-reference-board.html
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"While we admire Microsoft’s staying power in the industry, they lost their innovative edge many years ago. In the mean time, Linux and the open source community have made tremendous progress to offer an innovative and user-friendly desktop experience. The Touch Book is picking up this trend and comes with our own Linux-optimized system. Over time in 2009, we plan to support other Linux-based alternatives such as Google Android or interesting projects such as Moblin. As for Windows, XP cannot work on our platform by design — don't expect a native Photoshop on the Touch Book. Only Windows CE can make the cut, and Windows 7 is uncertain for the moment."

Not sure how much they are charging, but anything over $250.00 is not really worth it... Like seriously, this seems WAY under powered...

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And without it's own keyboard you lose about 10 hours of battery life. The huge battery is in the keyboard part, the screen part only has a small battery.]]>Aug 2nd 2009 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/Aug 2nd 2009 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/Aug 2nd 2009 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/Aug 2nd 2009 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/02/always-innovatings-touch-book-now-shipping/Aug 2nd 2009 4:08PM