Pepper Pad 3

[icurafu]

What do you ppl thing of the Pepper Pad 3?

http://pepperwiki.chuma.org/index.php/Pepper_Pad_3

http://www.pepper.com/products/pepper_pad3_spec.html

http://www.pepper.com/products/pepper_pad3.html

If it's as good as it states, I'll get one (waiting for review and aussie distributer). It's starting to arrive at people's houses now, so expect some reviews soon.

It's got:
-AMD Geode LX 800 processor@500mhz@0.9w (CS5561 included)
-Some intergrated video with 704KB onboard and 32MB off-die
-7" 800x480 screen.
-256MB DDR 400MHz ram
-Linux 2.6 OS
-1xUSB Host + 1xUSB slave.
-20GB 1.8" HDD
-Wifi b/g + Bluetooth 2.0
-Hardware AES 128-bit
-TV-out
-dual Infrared for remote control
-UPnP A/V to act as a media player, playing media wirelessly from your PC.
-QWERTY keyboard and track wheel
-VGA video camera.
-touch screen

and a lot more...

All this is less then 1 KG including the battery.

As long as it gets good reviews and the battery last longer than 3 hours, I'll get one.

 

[Iorgy77]

For that price I would rather get an oqo.

 

[icurafu]

For that price I would rather get an oqo.

ogo for US$700? Where?

 

[Iorgy77]

For that price I would rather get an oqo.

ogo for US$700? Where?

I just mean if I was to invest that much in a handheld PC I would spend the extra and get an OQO, besides the pepper pad is $860, not $700.

 

[icurafu]

http://www.ecost.com/ecost/shop/detail~dpno~4763956.asp

The real price is US$679.

I know it says 800 US on some sections of the home page. No idea where you got $860 from.

Cost of international and postage?

For that price, it's the cheapest UMPC.

Certainly looks a lot more interesting then a OQO.

For $2000 US I can get OQO Model 01+ (1.0Ghz/30GB/512mb/ Bluetooth/802.11b/English XP Professional)

This is obviously more powerful. The only problems is that you only have wifi b, forced to pay fo a windows professional licence, you only get 8mb of video ram and the screen is two inches smaller for the same resolution.

From my point of view the pepper pad is the only cost effective UMPC. Much more then half the price with marginally less performance.

 

[Epicenter]

The thing is, with that kind of processing power, what you can actually do with it is horribly limited by its form factor. I'd rather have a cheaper, lower-end gaming handheld and a proper laptop with the higher-end specs. Its design doesn't make much sense for gaming either-- too big, clunky and the ultra-widescreen resolution is inappropriate. Something I surf the web on, I won't want to hold like a game console!

I'll pass.

 

[weirdocollector]

The thing is, with that kind of processing power, what you can actually do with it is horribly limited by its form factor. I'd rather have a cheaper, lower-end gaming handheld and a proper laptop with the higher-end specs. Its design doesn't make much sense for gaming either-- too big, clunky and the ultra-widescreen resolution is inappropriate. Something I surf the web on, I won't want to hold like a game console!

I'll pass.

Have you got the same feelings about the Origami ?