[LinuxUsers] Cool Netbook

[Chris Penn]

Hilariously Ghetto features of this notebook:
First you see this "coolest" feature...
http://www.youtube.com/user/gregoiregentil#play/all/uploads-all/2/aZm6qM0KPpg

Then you see how it works:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0ufymAvjDM&feature=player_profilepage




On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Chris Penn <cantormath at gmail.com> wrote:
> The website says that the TB has Youtube and daily motion support.
> Looking in their IRC channel,  people say there is not flash support
> with the TB since there's no public-available flash player for arm.
> Currently firefox sends the video in youtube to mplayer.
>
> The machine is still very interesting.  It uses a customized
> Beagleboard (http://beagleboard.org).  Some of these customization
> include some solution for ethernet, and more USB ports.  The downside
> in this customization is that the standard beagleboard has DVI out and
> the TB does not.  Compared to the price of a beagleboard,  the TB
> seems well priced.
>
> Chris...
>
>
> Another thing I learned about these machines
>
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Dante Lanznaster <dantecl at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 1:46 AM, Chris Penn <cantormath at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Things I do not like:
>>> -no multi touch screen.
>>> -There is no stylus(which is not the issue) , and there does not seem
>>> to be any demos of them writing notes using a stylus.  This leads me
>>> to believe that writing on that screen might not work well.  This may
>>> not be an issue.
>>> -Java is currently supported but it's not yet integrated into the
>>> browser(not a huge deal, but still a deal.  Their wiki says they are
>>> working on this).
>>> -From their website:
>>> "Moreover, we will offer the choice of operating systems backed by
>>> partners, which are heavily invested on the hardware platform the
>>> Touch Book is based on."
>>> Not sure what that means, that could be shady.
>>
>> I don't know how it is with ARM processors, but if usability is comparable
>> to PowerPC, then there's 2 things that kill the web experience: Flash
>> and Java. Gnash can be used, but it's in such an alpha stage that
>> even youtube fails to display properly.
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