Back at the beginning of March we wrote about Always Innovating’s Touch Book, the netbook with a super cool design and a battery life of a whopping 15 hours. Today it looks like we’re getting closer to seeing that baby on e-shelves.
According to Engadget the tablet/netbook, complete with removable keyboard recently cropped up on Always Innovating’s under construction X-Cart powered online store. The site lists four entries, two each for the Touch Book tablet and the keyboard, both available in gray and red. Prices, which were previously unannounced were set at $299 for the unit itself and $99 for keyboard. From the looks of things you can buy them separately but I can’t imagine you’d want it without the keyboard anyway. No word on an actual ship date from the site but it certainly looks like it won’t be long.
Just to refresh your memory, the ARM powered Touch Book boasted the following specs: a 1024x600 display, 8GB micro SD card, Wifi 802.11b/g/n and Bluetooth, 3-dimensional accelerometer, speakers, mic and headphone jack, 6 USB 2.0 (3 internal, 2 external, 1 mini) and 10 to 15 hours of battery life. It measures in at 9.4-inch x 7-inch x 1.4" and 2 lb. Always Innovating also went ahead and developed its own Linux-based OS.
So what’s the verdict, now that we have some indication that it’ll be here soon and a price, who’s interested? I’d be wary of the OS, particularly because this thing likely wouldn’t be able to handle Windows XP but it’s a sweet looking piece of kit with a decent price tag.
