How much would you pay for a netbook?
$200 on contract? Maybe as much as
$599 for a so-called premium model? How about $699 -- a price that doesn't even include the $19 remote control? Well, what if we told you that the
Litl Webbook, a 1.6GHz Atom-based machine running a proprietary web-optimized OS that pumps accelerated H.264 content at 720p over HDMI-out, has a unique hinge that allows it to bend backwards and stand upright like an easel? Sorry, no touchscreen... but that display is 12.1-inches and you get Flickr and Facebook content as well as custom "channels" like The Weather Channel displayed in a "fun" and "engaging" way. You can even scroll between content via that baby-blue scrollwheel on the hinge. Not enough? What about the 2GB of storage, 1GB of memory, 802.11b/g WiFi, headphone and USB 2.0 jacks? Still not sold? Us neither.
posted Nov 4th 2009 7:13AM
with a name like that it is good for atleast 100$ off that price
Looks like a glorified alarm clock that got too cozy with an overpriced Kodak digital frame.
sounds like someone trying to weasel some ignorant suckers out of 700 greenbacks...laugh my arse off
Litl's response to price concerns:
http://litl.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/thinking-of-a-netbook-id-rather-buy-a-litl-let-me-explain/
litl - litl Apple in cost?
Lol if Apple had produced a netbook it would definitely look like this :
low specs, "running a proprietary web-optimized OS" (except it wouldn't be that web-optimised), and Very overpriced.
But that would be Apple so it would be "amazing" and "UN-BE-LIE-VA-BLE".
"BOOM!"
This is what the iPhone was originally priced at, but "revolutionary" is the Apple term for overpriced. =p
If Apple produced this, that Weather app would never get approved.
I was just thinking that. If apple comes out with a netbook, it'll be overpriced and underpowered but still, the apple fanboys will eat it up. When did we abandon reason for madness?
they are completely ripping apple off! i mean c'mon, doesnt apple hold the patent for a separate $19 remote control?
Lol i thought it was an apple product, until i read the title and saw what engadget had to say about it.
pure PWN macgregger
- No 802.11 N?
- 2 GB of storage?
- Non-standard OS?
This thing looks cool, but specs out to a low end netbook. They'll cut the price by 50% once they realize that nobody is going to pay $700 for a low-end, low-quality machine. And if they do - it might be worth dishing out the $350 (read: "might")
http://blogs.gnome.org/lucasr/2009/11/04/litl-webbook-some-technical-comments/
One of the developers blog that might kill off this proprietary os FUD.
what is 820.11b/g?
My lottery numbers
Where? I only see 802.11b/g WiFi.
Engadget writers get an [edit] button, but we don't.
there they go making my snide remarks pointless... just like the rest of my remarks.
your snide remarks live on forever in memory
And, where is the trolls saying that "X" device must be able to install Android?.
Yeah, but can I install Android on it?
With a price like that, you'll think it was made by Apple.
Apple doesn't license an OS from MS like 100% of the pc players. All pc vendors do is buy cheap parts, a windows license and market their shit in best buy and wallmart. Very easy money if they know their game. You didn't think most of them had engineers in a multitude of disciplines, did you? Apple does. But you're used to cheap, low rent pcs that come and go like hookers on the vegas strip. I'll pay top dollar for well crafted and well supported, well programmed Apple tech any day.
To be fair, Apple sells their "shit" in Best Buy and Walmart as well....
To be further fair, the only difference between and Apple and a PC these days is the OS. It has been proven by hackintosh that Apple's OS can pretty much run on the same spec'd pc.
So there. Stick that up your nose and be snooty about it.
and here come the fanboys to Apple's defense. You pecker heads need a new hobby. Everything you said that pc vendors do, apple does too. just because you use fancy verbs like "multitudes" doesn't take away from the fact that you'll gladly take something up the pooper if steve jobs said that was the newest and most revolutionary way to control your ipod or iphone.
@ das boot
Um... at the risk of being called a grammar Nazi I must interject. Multitudes isn't a verb. Mulititude and its plural are both nouns. And unlike some nouns, as far as I know, there is no verb form. The closest sounding verb I can think of at the moment is "multiply", which isn't very close at all.
Do I see a Wii? With these "Channels"…
No, I think you're looking at Internet Explorer 4 and Active Channels - like the Weather Channel.
One problem: iPod Touch. And it fits in your pocket. And it plays games, and music, and video. And is (touch) push button easy too.
This is a lovely product, well engineered, well conceived from a web OS angle, but makes the wrong assumptions about consumers, who are extremely sophisticated today. The lack of a touch screen goes against the tide and means the Litl's prime market, children and the elderly will be missing out on the most intuitive method with which to interact with a visual display based device. Not to mention artists who would have loved to curl up on the sofa and sketch. Too Litl, too much$, too late.
No, several problems:
Priced way out of its market.
Specced way below anything similar.
Lacking any real features that set it apart.
Lacking a recognised OS (I like Linux, but consumers don't)
This has NOTHING to do with the iPod touch, it is an entirely different product.
"Artists that would love to curl up on the sofa and sketch" No touchscreen i have ever used has been accurate or responsive enough to sketch on. Your critique of this product is bewildering.
Can't believe it folds like it does and doesn't have a touch screen.
My question is - why Atom?
Forgetting about the price and general unfeasibility of the design, this is running on a "custom" OS, probably Linux. Since the custom "web" OS is touted as a main feature, why not go for ARM? If designed properly it could probably churn out 1080p, have a longer battery life, better thermal behaviour, smaller footprint...so why not?
These guys hire people like Havoc Pennington - the guy who prominently worked on GNOME and other open-source software. This is probably not vaporware, but it might as well be.
Though I'm pretty sure litl doesn't read Engadget comments... ;)
So letme get this right. It's bad that it runs a proprietary OS? Isn't Windows 7 proprietary?
i dont know about you but i can go to the store and buy some computer parts and put windows 7 on it. The OS they have is proprietary. like the f@#$in iPhone OS or OSX (if you ignore the little bit of ingenuity to get it to work on anything)
Wait, a netbook that will let me access facebook and flickr? Sign me up!
Well umm.. it's kinda pretty, I'll give it that. But really, the remote should be standard and it should be touchscreen if it's going to fold over like that and well.. weak as hell for 700.
Ridiculous stuff. So what if it turns like that the other side? How many people are going to set up their laptop in that fashion and put it on display in their living rooms??
Also, that clock on the home screen is an HTC UI ripoff. Plus, scrolling with that cute blue thing on the remote will make your thumb go berserkly numb in no time.
Proprietary OS? What if sumthing gets f**ked up? People will have no clue what to do then. Go to the service store (if any) and they will charge the shit out of you.
Icing on the cake is the apple-ish pricing! Its not even innovative to demand such a price tag.
Litl Easel = Mighty Fail!
No touch screen?
For once we have something designed with touch screen in mind that is not a tablet and none is fitted in it.
Bit of a let down for whoever wants that sort of feature.
Yeah but you can get two for $1398 WITH 2 remotes.....that's saving like......38 bux. Is it worth it now ?
Proprietary OS? Big turnoff.
It's linux.
The one cool thing about this is that it's a computer being marketed not as a computer. I think the fact that it's a computer running a propriety OS will be irrelevant to many (potential) users who won't even realize what it is under the hood.
That being said... This needs to be priced significantly lower and needs a touch screen... bad...
At this price I'd expect a 3G chip in it and a touch screen for sure.
So Linux with a Gnome-stack and a bit of custom clutter UI is proprietary now? most of it if not all is free and open source.
Never for that price, but I really dig the hinge. I wonder how much duct tape it will take to make my mini 9 do that? I don't want it to always be a tablet, but the frame would be kind of awesome when watching movies.