You’ve probably heard of the upcoming CrunchPad by now. Its a project started by Michael Arrington, and the goal of which is to bring a web tablet with easy to use functionality to market with a reasonable price.
A recent post on CrunchGear says that Arrington may be planning a CrunchPad event (presumably an official announcement/launch) at the end of this month, or perhaps early August. Additionally it looks like the final price of Intel Atom powered CrunchPad will still be under $300 which certainly seems reasonable as long as the device is adept at consuming web content.
July 4th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
New article: CrunchPad event possibly at the end of this month, unit for less than $300 http://cli.gs/n7hEN
July 5th, 2009 at 2:06 am
Can anybody tell what are the specs under the hood of this thing, can’t find it anywhere. Hope the browser and flash content are smooth enough for normal web surfing.
July 5th, 2009 at 7:45 am
CrunchPad event possibly at the end of this month, unit for less than $300 http://ff.im/-4OOzh
July 5th, 2009 at 11:01 am
The CrunchPad in a month or two http://bit.ly/9GK6A
July 5th, 2009 at 11:32 am
I like the idea behind this device and hope to see it soon. 300 $ will be a fair price i think.
July 5th, 2009 at 11:48 am
This is far better than Q7!and is atom not arm!!!
July 5th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
I’m getting more and more worried about battery life on this.
They will need 30-40wh of lithium polymer cells but that’s a very expensive item.
Steve
July 5th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
it looks too good to be true. usually, that translates to a big let down. i wished it supports other browsers (opera, chrome, safari) and not just firefox.
since it’s intended just for web browsing/youtube videos, i think the spec is going to be really low. if it’s going to use the intel atom cpu, then it’s probably going to be the slowing/cheapest version. the ram in this thing is probably around 64 mb or less considering it’s using a linux distribution. the hdd is probably around 32 gb or less.
so is it really worth $300 just for browsing the web and playing back flash videos? it’s not very functional for anything else. also because it’s linux os, it’s going to be a pain to update the web browser when a new version is released.
July 5th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
[Umpc] CrunchPad event possibly at the end of this month, unit for less than $300 http://tinyurl.com/ofu6sn
July 5th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
I really am very curious about this device. As I already own a Netbook (HP Mini 2140 HD), I don’t need another one, which rules out the Gigabyte 1028, the Kohnjinsha SK3 and even the Viliv x70 or S7.
Right now, I am looking for a slim, light device with which to read eBooks, pdf docs and browse the web.
Right now, the only 2 contenders are the as-yet-unreleased AlwaysInnovating Touchbook and the Crunchpad. The Q7 did not really appeal to me, so that was crossed off the list.
I guess we will see in a month or so. Isn’t the TouchBook supposed to be shipping their pre-orders soon?
July 5th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
TouchBook was supposed to send out an email to pre-order holders a few weeks back, but we haven’t seen anything yet, hopefully they didn’t take our money and run with it!
July 5th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Nice design, I see this more of a coffee table device, something to quickly (hopefully) browse the net and read ebooks.
But less then £250 ($300) not this side of the Q continuum. Also as Chippy says, battery life is a worry.
July 5th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
did anybody find the weight? will it be 1 kg (like netbook) or much less (like always innovating)?
July 6th, 2009 at 12:50 am
They say it will go straight to browser after start so it won’t bring any new hardware.
I hope it will be similar to Acer Aspire One AOA110 insight because I have one and you can do nice staff with it.
cpu will be probably Atom N series, if it will have more than 8Gb of SSD I will be surprised, I would say 512mb of ram.
Well that’s just what I would like to see. and I think price target it possible with this specks.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:07 am
or the Via Nano with a gig of ram and 12″ screen?
July 6th, 2009 at 1:18 am
La CrunchPad-tableta se lanzará previsiblemente a final de mes y por menos de $300 http://bit.ly/17vPEm
July 6th, 2009 at 4:08 am
If everything is true about this Crunchpad like 12 inch size, atom cpu, and a price of $300.
Then it will be the talk of August 2009, overtaking Netbooks, which were the talk of August 2008.
We all have to wait and see.
Talk about a technology shift in tablet computer!!!!
July 7th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
For $300 it will be a nice webbrowsing only device. Although I hope the specs will allow a more generic use beyond just browsing.
@joenoe with do you mean with “also because it’s linux os, it’s going to be a pain to update the web browser when a new version is released.” ?
It seems you have not been paying attention to the current linux distros out there today. Just hit update and…although I guess you probably mean this device will have a custom Linux, I think it will not be very hard to update the browser
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