Always Innovating TouchBook - The coolest computer ever!!!

[tylermurch]

where can I get one?? This is awesome!

[metalx1000]

@tylermurch: Videos is kinda old, but just google "always innovating"

[gadget00]

now in 2011, after reading some of the forums and people struggling to even charge it, this has ended been a bad designed computer and is going the TouchPad route.

[abdou1995]

Ipad?

[nargarothfreak666]

Dont get it

if you move a Magnet on your labtop you labtop gest broken

because of all the megnet stuff what is insite

so my question is how is it possible that it got a magnet in site?

i dont really get it.

Cheers!

[yahhcold]

If only it was thinner

[fagrsful]

1:49 "Can your laptop do this?" ... yep. once.

[derman077]

2011 version ?

[CliftonRX7]

dell stole yall idea

[LOLDISNEYLAND]

I love the french accent. It's vocal sex.

[ArchSaur]

Wow, this is what iPad is now? ARM processor, touch screen (-:

[scoobysnack30000]

the frogs can't speak english. period. still amusing to watch them try now that french hasn't been adopted as the worldwide language and English has.

[iguanae]

This is pretty sweet! I would totally buy this if Ubuntu had better touch-screen support and if the device had a better processor. Heck, if it had all that and some good games, I'd pay 200 bucks more!

[LOLDISNEYLAND]

@iguanae Its Android OS. If you want games, its much worth it to buy a handheld device like a playstation or nintendo.

[Imprezaman555]

looks really cool. DAMN IT! I just got a $300 acer, now im really jealous. Oh well, hopefully they are still around in a year or two.

[metalx1000]

@Imprezaman555: Hopefully they are cheaper in 2 years or so :)

[Imprezaman555]

@metalx1000 what i'm really hoping for is an upgrade the duel core 2Ghz arm cortex a9, or at least the 900Mhz variant. Since i'm dreaming throw in a mali gpu. That would be too good to be true though.

[dougreed745]

What a let down, I placed an order for one of these, I was told that it would take two months to deliver. I emailed AI a week before delivery was due and was told that they had suspended production until summer when they would also announce their "craziest innovation". They never notified me of this change of plan.

To anyone thinking of buying one of these, forget it, wait a few months something else is sure to be released.

Well done Gregoire, you know how to p*ss of your prospective customers!

[chris978820]

It does sound really good but i dont like how it looks. and I would never stick a $300 netbook on my refrigerator. lol

[metalx1000]

@chris978820: yeah, that just seems like a bad idea. but I've seen another video where they stick it on the door and slam the door a few time and it stays. I still would be hesitant to do it myself.

[chris978820]

@metalx1000 the only way i would stick a netbook to a refrigerator is if it came wit 4 screws to bolt it up there. lol

[nargarothfreak666]

@metalx1000

you can onley do that if you have money enough ^^

[theinfowarior]

his English is not poor, he has perfect grammar just with a heavy accent.

[philipcy]

you need to simplify this! way too much... she isnt an actress or a PR!!!

[metalx1000]

I think she is a Translator.

She translates his poor English for us :)

[mysql123456]

i would have watched it if it weren't for the gay french accent which somehow makes me rage

[moffe247]

0:50

It does not generate a lot of it...

[metalx1000]

no, no... eat.

The computer doesn't get hungry.

[novazee]

I have a hard time understanding his heavy accent. But I think this device is going to be way better than ipad.

[Khal337]

"Because we have a larger screen, graphics will be outstanding" I lol'd

[moffe247]

So did some people in the audience as well.

[Smatchimo]

the os resembles Jollicloud to the max

[WatchCharmedOnline]

it's WAAAYYYY too tall.

MAN! I GET SOOO ANNOYED WHEN THEY SAY. " THIS IS THE FIRST NETBOOK TO USE ARM PROCESSORS"

Dumbasses ever heard of HP Journada from 10 years ago? How about the 100 dollar netbooks that has been here for years?

[metalx1000]

I don't know if they are the first, because I know a lot of people are working on ARM laptops.

But the HP Journada was not quite a Laptop.

It was more like a palm pilot and a netbook had a kid.

[WatchCharmedOnline]

@metalx1000

maybe. But it (HP Journada) ran windows CE which has the functionality of a normal computer with, tons of compatability issues like any ARM based devices should have.

Plus, Any laptop that runs on ARM will automatically have tons of compatability issues so there's not much diffeence between the hp journada and these "new" laptops.

The only main difference is the power of the new hardware which, isn't an excuse to call an older handheld pc a "Palm-pc crossbreed".

[metalx1000]

Windows CE is far from having the normal functions of a laptop.

And Linux Has been running on ARM Processors for years.

The only compatibility issues you should have with running on an ARM processor is if your programs are not compiled for an ARM processor. You don't really have this problem with Linux because pretty much any open-source program can be recompiled for an ARM Processor and if you are using Debian all the programs in the repose are already ARM compiled.

[metalx1000]

I have Debian running on my phone with an ARM Processor with no problems as long as the program can run on 600MHz and 256 RAM (768 MB virtual memory).

The Problem would be if you are trying to run Windows (which can't run on an ARM other then CE or Mobile), then you would still have the problem of all the proprietary vendors having to spend the time and money to recompile there software for ARM.

Just one of many reasons why Open-Source beats out Closed.

[WatchCharmedOnline]

open source certainly will never be as professional as closed though and no one will take open source seriously for buisness.

Take Linux, the most popular open source OS. It may be popular, but how many companies run linux on their computers? Few to none. Most runs mac or windows....unless they're so poor that they can't afford a closed OS.

[metalx1000]

I'm hoping you are joking. Linux is used in the business wold then any other OS. Google for example. 75% of web-servers. Walk into any Home Depot or Lowes and look at there computer. Only small businesses that don't know much about computers use windows. I can tell that you come from a windows world because you talk about CE like it's useful. Linux is the most used OS for devices and Servers.

[WatchCharmedOnline]

Let me give you some statistical data.

Copied directly from a research by Market Share 2009.

Windows72.8 %

Mac 21.7 %

Linux

3.1 %

Mobile

2.4 %

Also, most web servers prefers to use windows 2000 adv server/windows 2008/etc rather than linux (Though linux isn't that bad).

[Tarnus88]

@WatchCharmedOnline So what? In best case this is a statistic about Desktop-Ps, wich is absolutely irrelevant to the server-market. Most Servers are running on Linux oder Unix-like Systems, MS has the biggest share at the Desktopmarket, but not on the server-market.

[WatchCharmedOnline]

And why are you telling ME this? I didn't even start the server convo. I was merely answering it.

[DeliciousBreakfast]

Just thought you ought to know that the vast majority of servers are running a nix system. Windows is relatively rare in the world of servers.

[sgallion1]

Where can I buy one of these?????

[santosbl01]

Fuck ya'll, his English rocks.

[nwfklan]

4:15 "pluug your uzb d0ngurl inzeide zhe zewize" hahaha, awesome english accent

[R3dmetH]

and zies ies ze touchebook and my name ies jean sjack

[SmashCOBamberg]

funny english

[cyberlord64]

Questions for anyone who already got one: Can i take notes and sketches diectly using a stylus like i would do with an ordinary piece of paper? does the battery really lasts 10hrs? Can anyone confirm? I am thinking to use one for educational purposes. It would be so convenient if instead of carriyng all my books and notepads every day i would only carry this!!! This is just too good to be true!!!!!

[metalx1000]

I don't have one, yet. But, as far as take notes and sketches that would just be a software thing. And there are plenty of programs out there for drawing. When it comes to touch screens just remember, it's just like a mouse. If you can draw in a program with a mouse, you can draw in it with a touch screen.

[cyberlord64]

I was more interested in the accuracy and the sensitivity of the touchscreen. I have used touchscreens that were perfect for handwriting and others that you had to press very hard on the screen to draw a continuous line. If anyone has a touchbook could you make a video demonstrating the capability of the it in handwriting?

[PhotoCher]

Love to have one of these!! Sounds perfect!!

[Arejek]

oooh! I wants one! This would be the perfect notebook to have for this cross-country bicycle ride I want to go on. I love that it's open source too.

[tula97]

win xp does not support arm ..

I asume it uses usb 1.1 right? anybody can confirm?

to integrate camera is not a hard task.

eee 9 h is really about 5h

[metalx1000]

It has 8 USB 2.0 (4 internal, 4 external)

What makes you think it would be using USB 1.1?

XP doesn't support ARM.

Windows 7 might, but it's just a much a system hog as Vista, so I don't know what ARM device it will actually run on, but this is not one of them.

[tula97]

thank you metalx for clarifying that

about win 7 I figured as much... yet I love design and concept of this device

[metalx1000]

Do you own one?

I know you don't know what you're talking about because you say you would use Windows XP. A sure sign you don't know much about computers. Beagleboards are great. Just because Microsoft has poor programmers and there OS is so poorly designed that it takes up 20GB of space, yet can barely do anything out of the box, doesn't mean that this hardware is bad. You can always use Windows CE.

[bigmackemail]

this thing sucks. its just a beagleboard with a usb adapter in a thick ugly shell. for 300 bucks id rather get a eeepc 1000 that has a 1.6ghz cpu,1gb ram,160gb hard drive and 7 hour battery life and windows xp.

[aqwersd]

I have also pre-ordered and have not heard from them yet. I check daily. You can qualify your pre-order on their site, which helps determine your place in line, though they say for the most part they're going by date of pre-order.

[needhelp1990]

What? Did always innovating change their minds or something? This is getting annoying now, I heard they were going to start shipping from may, it's now august, by the time they finally ship it something better will be out or I won't even want it anymore.

[SumDude149]

hehe "open source computer on steroids"

[moderndesignworks]

Very beautiful case, I have been use my Fujitsu 12" touch screen notebook for years now. So, the technology is not new, but the design has a new twist to it, and I love the exterior. I might trade it up, but I didn't see the webcam on this unit, am I missing something?

[metalx1000]

# US Qwerty 24cm-large keyboard — around 95% of the size of a standard keyboard

# Cirque Touchpad

# Two Owolff high-quality internal stereo speakers

# 3D accelerometer

# Two internal batteries 6000 and 12000mAh — it can be replaced with a screw driver

# 7 USB ports: three external, four internal, three of them may be reserved for wifi, bluetooth and keyboard

[Shalom889]

is this multitouch screen like an i phone

[Rumplestilzken]

Not quite clear yet. They said that they would no support it. But as far as hardware goes, only time will tell. We have to wait until its released, see if someone can figure out a nice little code to add the capability.

[tdq11]

Nope. The CEO stated on his website that there's no point because multitouch is mainly used for zooming in and out on images, and since this screen is fairly large, there won't be as much need for that.

[Rumplestilzken]

Nope. No Webcam.

[xxOle]

LOL, 3:39

Sounded like "facebook pedophile" to me xD