Sascha from Netbooknews.de (and more recently the English version, Netbooknews.com) is down on the ground in Taipei checking out the latest and greatest from Computex. A quick video from Sascha shows us an upcoming laptop form-factor device running an interesting combination of hardware and software.
The ECS T800, as it is being called, is a device that looks much like the size and shape of the Sony VAIO P [Portal page]. It is using a Texas Instruments OMAP3 3440 CPU running at only 800MHz or optionally the OMAP3 3450 running at 1GHz. Afraid that 800MHz or 1GHz won’t be enough to power XP? Good thing the T800 runs Android. That’s right, the T800 is purportedly going to be running the Google Android operating system. Have a run down of the stats as listed at Computex:
- Android OS
- OMAP3 3440 (800MHz) or 3450 (1GHz)
- 8.1” LCD
- 512MB of RAM
- 2.5” HDD/SSD
- 2x USB 2.0
- 1x Card reader
- 2x Mini-PCIe slots reserved for WWAN (HSPDA & WiMAX)
- Integrated 0.3MP or 1.3MP camera
- 800 grams
- 246 x 121 x 20 mm
Take a look at a video of a mock-up of the device below. It seems to close incredibly flush and looks quite sleek. I doubt that the screen will be as glossy on the production model as we see on the mock-up in the video.
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:13 am
I’m not a fan of this form factor, but definitely understand the appeal of this design.
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June 3rd, 2009 at 4:15 am
Look a little closer gang, I did not see any directional keys on the keyboard.
This is a big no no IMO. I don’t know what android interface is like but I would assume some form of direction keys is necessary.
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June 3rd, 2009 at 10:48 am
why is it so heavy?
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June 3rd, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Because it uses an 8″ screen plus an 2.5″ HDD and provides 2 mini-PCIe slots?
And finally, maybe because Sony is better at the game of making light design…
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June 3rd, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Ben, are you joking when you are saying that 800MHz may not be enough to power XP?
First, this is an ARM chip that won’t be able to run XP at all, anyway.
Second, different CPU can’t be evaluated solely on their clock… For instance the Celeron M 900MHz (found on original EeePC’s) is on average as much powerful as the Atom N270 1,6GHz.
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June 3rd, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Furthermore, XP is running really fine on EeePC 701 with the Celeron M clocked at 630MHz… The same goes for the Aigo MID with an Atom clocked at 800Mz… And of course, everybody ran XP on even weaker CPU’s years ago.
XP is a pretty light operating system, from today’s point of view.
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June 4th, 2009 at 2:43 am
Yes it was mostly a joke, I know XP could run on 800MHz depending upon the particular CPU, people who aren’t yet used to the concept of netbooks would laugh at the clock speed and definitely not want a computer with that clock speed.
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June 4th, 2009 at 11:53 am
OK, sorry to have been that arrogant.
I was just angry at the moment to read (again!) some suggestions that an ARM chip could power XP while they are *not* x86-compatible.
Keep up the good work, Ben!
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June 11th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
Thank you very good for article
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January 9th, 2010 at 3:21 pm
Вот у видел, что и Блогун занимается спамом:) Смотрите первый коммент:
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January 10th, 2010 at 2:22 pm
Да уж прямо узнаю знакомые фразы.Последний шедевр от братии спамеров что появился на моем блоге в комментариях, после добавления многих в спам, был вот такой:
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January 10th, 2010 at 2:58 pm
В мой блог вчера прислали образец креативности:
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January 10th, 2010 at 3:58 pm
2. Автору блога. А мертвое то что проспамливается все равно сгинет скорее всего , на такое время тратить нет смысла.
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