3K Razorbook

No claims to suitability, however:

http://www.buy.com/retail/Product.asp?sku=210401409

More on their pages:

http://3kcomputers.com/razorbook400.html

I’ll let the interested dig deeper into the specs, and openness of the hardware, etc. I guess it’s some ARM9 processor (although that covers a huge range of processors).

Slow an rubbish even running Windows CE.

Don’t touch with a bargepole :)

Besides. As previously linked.

http://www.liliputing.com/2009/03/always-innovating-touch-book-has-a-detachable-display.html#disqus_thread

This is a beagle board based netbook/tablet (and as port is already under way a no brainer).

John

Apparently the RazorBook either comes with a 400MHz Ingenic CPU (no idea what instruction set it’s meant to use), a 400MHz XScale, or a 1GHz x86 of some kind (and 8GB of flash). So assuming you’re lucky enough to buy an ARM version I guess RISC OS could be ported to it. There are also numerous other identical products being sold around the place, since apparently they’re all made by the same company in China.

http://www.liliputing.com/2008/11/razorbookalpha-400-maker-changes-its-name-processor.html

Slow an rubbish even running Windows CE.

Maybe so, but I bet a RiscPC is even slower. By comparison, my phone has a similar specced CPU to the A9. Drivers remain a big issue with any hardware where we don’t have an emulation layer, but I’m willing to bet RISC OS just nicely on such hardware.

Aren’t we all just waiting for the new netbooks with the Marvell PXA168? 1 GHz ARMv5 core, L2 cache, DDR2 memory, integrated graphics up to 1920×1200@24bpp, and everything-on-the-chip (USB, Flash card interface, Ethernet, AC97 sound…).

After that, tackling the 88F6000 range from Marvell is the next logical step – up to 1.5 GHz, L2 cache, PCI Express, S-ATA and 1000bT. Would make a nice IYONIX successor.

OK, just dreaming late at night…

As long as we don’t have to use Ada to do it :o

The xburst/ingenic cpu is the linux version and is a MIPS instruction set.

The machine is dog slow and is useless. I have a Netbook like HPC running CE4.2 on a strongarm 206mhz cpu and it totally destroys both xburst/linux and the ARM/CE based version of this for speed. IIRC the cpu is the framebuffer and think it was cheaply designed. This is not the device to pop RISC OS on.

No point when there is a beagleboard netbook and multiple cortex based netbooks going to be on market Q3 this year.

John