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 inch LCD
- 512MB of RAM
- 2.5 inch 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.
New article: Slick VAIO P shaped device runs Android, powered by OMAP3 [video] http://cli.gs/npZLSh
I’m not a fan of this form factor, but definitely understand the appeal of this design.
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.
why is it so heavy?
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…
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.
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.
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.
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!
Thank you very good for article
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