Comments on: CrunchPad specs, release date leaked

By: wedding dresses

wedding dresses — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:35:00 +0000

Well that’s because the CrunchPad is Singapore’s first tablet. They don’t know about the tablet. Maybe they’re thinking of tablet PC as web tablet. They just made a simple typo that caused a lot of discussion.

By: microshaftsux

microshaftsux — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:24:59 +0000

Well the 8.9″ tablet is smaller than the CrunchPad.

By: microshaftsux

microshaftsux — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:24:59 +0000

Well the 8.9″ tablet is smaller than the CrunchPad.

By: microshaftsux

microshaftsux — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:35:48 +0000

“Incidentally, I’d take the Straits Times article with a grain of salt, since the article also refers to the CrunchPad as the “world’s first tablet PC,” which is kind of, you know, absolutely, 100% wrong.”

Well that's because the CrunchPad is Singapore's first tablet. They don't know about the tablet. Maybe they're thinking of tablet PC as web tablet. They just made a simple typo that caused a lot of discussion.

By: fduch

fduch — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:41:32 +0000

I wonder why it's still 18% heavier than eeePC T91…
http://products.liliputing.com/products/?id=467

By: trey

trey — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 02:57:54 +0000

Ill get one at 299$.
No way in hell at 399$.

The same applies for netbooks.

By: kraft

kraft — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 01:44:41 +0000

from the 'Times article: “It allows users to watch YouTube videos, listen to music and edit documents, among other things.”

a 1.6ghz atom with a 12″ screen that can handle youtube? well probably not fullscreen, unless it's 12″ with a 1024×600 resolution which would be pretty silly.

By: Timmymac

Timmymac — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 05:40:23 +0000

Something y'all are forgetting is that it has a USB port. With that, you can use a single USB plug to attach a hub, which connects the mouse and keyboard and sound and etc. Make a simple stand to hold the tablet vertically. and you've got a compact desktop PC that transforms into a portable tablet. Yeah, I can see this being an awesome secondary computer/webviewer.

By: John Morris

John Morris — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:57:08 +0000

What is the point of putting a power guzzler like the Atom into a tablet that is intended to only run a browser? That one decision killed this product.

Imagine an ARM in there and a three cell battery. What would that do to weight and sticker price? No it probably wouldn't get them all the way to $200 witha 12″ display but it would help. And the weight advantage should be obvious.

By: Mikez

Mikez — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:51:12 +0000

Agreed. Let us see, they have already thrown away the keyboard and storage – -
Maybe toss out the motherboard, that should be about half a pound.

By: MonkeyKing1969

MonkeyKing1969 — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:04:56 +0000

Two point six pounds?! They need to shave at least half of a pound off of that to even make it worth thinking about.

By: DougC3

DougC3 — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:24:23 +0000

The Straits Times article is a hoot:

“A SINGAPORE company is racing to be the first in the world to bring an almost mythical creature – the touchscreen tablet computer – to the market.”

If they'd added “without storage” to the sentence, it might have been accurate

From reading forums, etc, I've gotten the idea that Singapore is one of the most sophisticated places in the world when it comes to netbooks, hacking, etc, so it seems kind of strange that Straits Times could be so confused.