Screenshots Released of AlwaysInnovating Touch Book’s Linux Based OS

AlwaysInnovating’s Touch Book started shipping just last week, yet there hasn’t been any pictures or reviews yet. The Touch Book is a netbook which allows you to detach the touch screen so you can use it like a tablet. You can view a video here showing it in action (with some bloopers).

At a first glance of the screenshots released on the company website, you can’t but help notice the similarity to the Windows interface with the Start button, Quick Launch icons, Desktop icons, and the time and date. This is because this Linux OS sits on the GNOME desktop platform. AlwaysInnovating plans to support other Linux-bases alternatives such as the Google Andriod and Mobilin, their website says.

The shots also show some applications such as the GNOME Mplayer, MyPaint, and Gnumeric, a spreadsheet program (other alternatives would have been the online EditGrid, Zoho Sheets, and Google Spreadsheets). As with many touchscreen tablets, a software is included to make launching applications easier when using the touchscreen.  These have an easy to use interface with large icons to popular sites such as Wikipedia and Facebook and applications such as Firefox and Word.

It currently uses the Texas Instruments OMAP3530 – 600 MHz ARM Cortex A8, a slow but battery-friendly CPU that they claim will make it last more than 10 hours. But other netbooks have been able to achieve that milestone using the standard 1.6 Ghz Intel Atom N270, such as the Asus1005HA.  The Touch Book also has an 8GB SD card and comes with an impressive 7 USB ports, 3 internal and 4 external…because you always need extra ports for your USB toaster and fan.

From Liliputing.