Always Innovating releases open source laptop

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Founded by serial entrepreneur Grégoire Gentil, Always Innovating releases Touch Book - both a netbook and a tablet thanks to a detachable keyboard and a 3D touchscreen user interface.

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"Until now, all netbooks were engineered the same way: Power-hungry Intel Atom, ugly case, and outdated 90's OS. Our goal: To achieve a breakthrough in both architecture and design. The result: a revolutionary device that works as both a netbook and a standalone tablet thanks to a detachable keyboard and a 3D touchscreen user interface."

 

And they totally did. It looks very slick and all the details are pixel perfect. They reached a level of finishing and from what we see powerful features achieved by an ARM processor using a custom os Touch Book Os comparable to Bug Labs quality.

 

So the specifications are :

9.4" x 7" x 1.4" for 2 lbs (with keyboard)

ARM Texas Instruments OMAP3 chip

1024x600 8.9'' screen

Storage: 8GB micro SD card

Wifi 802.11b/g/n and Bluetooth

3-dimensional accelerometer

Speakers, micro and headphone

6 USB 2.0 (3 internal, 2 external, 1 mini)

10h to 15 hours of battery life

 

Now this looks ok but here is where it gets interesting : the screen is detachable and becomes a tablet and you have batteries in both parts of the laptop. How crazy is that?

 

 

So open source? Yes my friends both software and hardware :

 

Software : Touch Book OS is built from the excellent OpenEmbedded system.

Hardware : Based on the Beagleboard project, the schematics of The Touch Book board are released under GPL.

 

The official website here : http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/touchbook/