Building a tablet PC… Why?
I’m a gadget freak, there is no denying it, so when I saw the tiny (9×7 cm) pico-ITX motherboard on the t’interweb I possitively giggled with anticipation. It’s not available yet so I have settled on the nano-ITX (12×12 cm) instead to “tide me over”. I thought it would be fun to build a tablet PC type thingy with it.
“Oh so is that cheaper than just buying a tablet PC?” I hear you ask. Well no; I need:
- Motherboard
- Ram
- HDD (or some kinda storage)
- screen
- touchscreen for the above
- power
“Oh, OK. So it must be faster than a regular tablet PC then.” Er, no. It’s based around the 1GHz Luke processor, so it’s not exactly a work horse.
“Well, okay if it’s not cheaper or faster it must be smaller right?” Well, erm, no. By the time I squeeze it all together its gonna be 3.5 x 22.4 x 28.8 - and thats only with a 12″ screen.
“Sorry I don’t get it. Why are you building it again?” Well it will… I mean because it…. What I want to say is that… Just shut up. Because I can. How’s that.
March 11th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
Dude. Seriously?
March 19th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Seriously, what is up with your RSS feed? It dun work correctly for some reason.
March 21st, 2007 at 10:19 pm
Nowt wrong with the RSS matey. I blame the sheer amount of stickers on your laptop blocking the sheer leetness of the site.
And Nez; yup. Seemed like a good idea at the time. Not sure how much I’m gonna get done when I have a Wii though
March 22nd, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Pictures.
I want to see pictures of the work in progress.
Oh.. and go for it mate, good on ya. Half the world will be watching you and you will probably get a job offer.
G.
March 25th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
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