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on May 21, 2010
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The Eee Box EB1007 is one of the newest mini-desktop computers from Asus. It sports a 1.66GHz Intel Atom D410 single core processor and Intel GMA 3150 graphics. In other words, it’s basicaly what you would get if you took a typical netbook, ripped out the display, added a few USB ports, and added a stand for holding up the computer on a desk.
The nettop doesn’t have an NVIDIA ION graphics card or Broadcom Crystal HD video accelerator. In fact, it doesn’t even appear to have Windows 7. PC Watch reports that the EB1007 runs Windows XP Home Edition.
What it does have are 6 USB ports, an eSATA port, Ethernet, VGA, and audio ports, an SD card slot, and built in 802.11b/g/n WiFi. The nettop has 1GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive and should be available in Japan starting tomorrow for about 31,800 yen or about $355 US.
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on May 19, 2010
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That Pioneer DreamBook Lite E10 mini-laptop isn’t the only new Google Android device powered by a 533MHz VIA ARM-based processor. Chinese PC maker Blue sky has introduced the BL10, a tablet with a 10.1 inch, 1024 x 576 pixel display, and the same VIA WM8505 processor as the DreamBook E10.
The Blue Sky BL10 also has up to 32GB of flash storage, 128MB to 256MB of memory, a 0.3MP webcam, and 802.11b/g WiFi. It has mic and headphone jacks, a USB port, and an SD card slot.
The tablet weighs 2.2 pounds and has a 2400mAh battery and runs Google Android.
No word on pricing — but I don’t expect to see the Blue Sky BL10 outside of China anytime soon anyway.
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on May 17, 2010
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While it will be a little while before see Palm’s WebOS officially ported to tablet or notebook-style devices, it’s probably going to happen soon. In the meantime, you can sort of kind of do it yourself if you have an older PC.
Basically, Palm offers a WebOS emulator for Windows PCs. While the version of the operating system that runs on mobile phones is designed for ARM-based processors, the desktop emulator works with x86 processors like those used in Windows computers. So a member of the PreCentral Forums decided to see what would happen if he took the emulator image, threw it on a hard drive, and tried to boot his computer. It turns out, it boots.
It only works on hard drives with IDE connections, so if you have a SATA hard drive you’re out of luck at the moment.
There’s currently no support for mouse input, so you’ll have to navigate using a keyboard and touchscreen — if you have a touchscreen PC. And the user interface doesn’t scale to the size of your display yet. But the guy who figured out how to boot a PC from the emulator image is working on patches for those things.
You can check out a video of WebOS on a Dell Latitude C600 after the break.