Good home wanted for Touchbook

Dear everyone on the forum,

I have a Touchbook which I simply don’t have the time to use. Its a shame to part with it – especially considering the long wait to get – but there you go. I was going to put it on Ebay (and still will if there’s no interest here) but thought it worth seeing if anyone from the community would be interested in a Touchbook, perhaps for development. I understand RO5 is just a screen driver away from being compatible with it now.

It is the later 512MiB RAM model (rather than 256MiB), with keyboard extension, running the latest 2010.3.a operating system on a Sandisk Extreme Class 10 4GiB card, the so-called fastest available SDHC card, rather than the Class 6 one provided. I can provide the item boxed in original packaging with instructions and with UK plug adapter. The unit works perfectly well, the only wear is the usual scuffs on the base from being moved around on desks and a couple of minor scratches on the lid.

The cost from new for UK is $399 $45 shipping £35 tax + £20 letting-you-have-it fee from Parcelforce. Total therefore around £355. I’m asking for £300, which includes the cost of postage and packaging to within the UK.

If anyone is interested then write me an e-mail to “monty at umpire dot com” or reply in thread.

Cheers,

Edward.

Very tempting – I may get in touch with you tonight!

@Jeffrey,

Had you had time to play with the new toy yet?

P.S. Threw in a stylus (from an AlphaSmart Dana), adapter and screen cleaner thing due to absence of the daft fridge magnets, which they never sent me.

Not yet, too busy at work. The package seems to be in one piece though, which is a good start ;) I’ll let you know if I run into any problems.

Cheers for the freebies. If my PC wasn’t in an aluminium case then I could have made some use of the magnets (the PC is sat next to my monitor with one of the side panels facing me, so the touch book could have attached itself to that). But I’d rather have a cool and quiet PC than a hot and noisy one with a tablet precariously stuck to the side :)

What an odd man their founder is. At some point he must have thought, “What would be a good selling point for a laptop/tablet? I know! You can attach it to fridges!” Why not car sun visors? Or dogs?

P.S. I’ve gone back to my Sinclair Z88 in the last day. What a strange, interesting beast it is. <joke class="poor">Any chance of a RISC OS port?</joke>

RISC OS port for the Sinclair Z88? Wasn’t there something called Acorn PockedBook?

Pocket Book, not PockedBook :)

http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/Computers/PocketBooks.html

Any chance of a RISC OS port?

Perhaps if you swapped the mainboard for a beagle. Then worked out how to use the screen and keyboard.