[nabs-l] FW: It's a Keyboard! No! It's a PC!
Joe Orozco
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See? Read below, and you may find that the idea of blind consumers
requesting more for their money is not completely out of line. Is it
completely crazy that a Braille display could be fitted to this new type of
keyboard? I'm thinking it's about as crazy of a notion as people felt when
Apple decided to build its own screen reader.--Joe
Subject: It's a Keyboard! No! It's a PC!
It's a Keyboard! No! It's a PC!
Finally, the all-in-one keyboard PC surfaces on the market.
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It's a Keyboard! No! It's a PC!
By STEPHEN <http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/author/stephen-williams/>
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The idea of containing an entire computer - including display screen - on
what is essentially just a keyboard, has been in the fermenting stage for
some time at Asus.
Enter, this month, the all-in-one Asus Eee PC Keyboard, which is finally
shipping, at a price of $600.
It's a handsome piece, not particularly radical; it looks like a
silver-finished keyboard. The centerpiece, which is to the right of the
full-size keys, is a five-inch, rectangular, 800-by-480 LED-lighted touch
screen, which looks a lot like an iPhone.
It is very crowded inside that slim wedge of a touch screen; Asus found
spots for a 16-gigabyte solid-state drive, a gigabyte of RAM, Wi-Fi and
Bluetooth chips, plus video outputs (including HDMI) and U.S.B. ports.
Processing power comes from an Intel Atom chip. The computer runs Microsoft
Windows XP version, not Vista.
The device is not meant to replace a laptop for mobile workaholics. And it
won't. The display is useful mainly as a window for Internet browsing,
e-mailing, Facebooking and receiving RSS feeds. To Asus, the device is a
desktop replacement or supplement. But in practice, it behaves like .well, a
keyboard, with nicely clicking keys. Although the screen to the right side
is bright and crisp, I would not get rid of that LCD monitor just yet.
The device was first shown in January 2009, at the Consumer Electronics
Show, and its introduction was an on-again, off-again affair, as the company
waffled on specs and release dates for months before the "formal" release
was announced earlier this month. It is now available for purchase at
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