Pepper Pad 2 Linux Web Pad 197
`Sean writes "Pepper Computer debuted their $800 Pepper Pad 2 at DEMOmobile 2004 this week. Specs include a 624 MHz XScale processor, 8.4" 800x600 TFT touchscreen, 802.11b+g, and 20 GB HDD running MontaVista Linux CEE. Out of the box the Pepper Pad 2 loads the Pepper Keeper as its GUI, but a full-blown Linux distribution with Java 2 JRE and X-Window System is sitting under the covers just waiting be customized. I personally can't wait to get a hold of one of these to turn into an OBD-II and telemetry workstation for the rally car."
Low Cost Linux SBCs? (Score:2, Insightful)
I've wanted this (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:But.... (Score:2, Insightful)
Battery? (Score:4, Insightful)
wow I want one (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:I've wanted this (Score:2, Insightful)
It's basicly what MS's tablets promise to be, but at a third of the cost and it has the flexibility of linux.
The thing can be 3x as powerfull as a tablet PC if you have a nice dual (core?) opteron computer laying around somewere.
The business aspects of this device is also intreaging. If you use it as a X terminal, the majority of the time the harddrive will be asleep, and thus the only real things using the battery would be the display and the wireless.
A 802.11g is plenty quick for this...
Also would make a great DVD movie player once you used Mencoder to rip them into libavcodec (or the inferior Dvix or Xivd ) mpeg4 avi file.
2 pounds!!
The 600mhz proccessor would be pleny fast for any Linux machine, except if you want to play doom3 or run real transparencies or something.
everything that MS said that the tablet would be minus the suck and the price (oh and almost-working writing recognition)
I hate to say it... (Score:4, Insightful)