For a company that doesn’t really do much to promote its Geode platform as a ultra mobile PC building block, AMD are having a pretty good day.
The wonderful-looking Raon Digital Everun is getting some positive response and on top of that, here’s another nice looking solution.
Underneath the simple but stylish exterior there’s an AMD LX800 CPU with Wifi, 1.3MP camera, CF card slot and a 1024×600 (possibly a bit too hi-res) LED back-lit screen. It’s loaded with Windows XP.
It looks to be pocketable (pocketables.net – here’s one for you!) and with its small 17W/hr battery it should be pretty lightweight. There’s also info on an Extension module (we like those!) which gives you the LAN and VGA-port you’ll need for desktop work.
The UMPCPortal ‘network’ is seeing what it can dig up in terms of pricing and availability and in the meantime, I’m going to be wondering if the MID Linux projects are going to support the Geode CPU and chipset. They could form the basis of a nice low-end Linux-based web-pad. Oh hold on.. they already do! Sorry PepperPad!
