The Pepper Pad hardware is still one of my favorite in-home browsing devices. Its a good,comfortable size, has a solid, slightly ruggedised build and best of all, it has the great split keyboard and the scrollbar. Now that Pepper seem to be re-focusing, Hanbit, the hardware partner for Pepper, appear to be free to offer the hardware with any operating system. They’re even working on upgrading the old AMG Geode-based platform to Intel Menlow which is excellent news. I’ve had the info for a while but haven’t been permitted to release it but now that Hanbit have gone public at CES I can bring you the news. Or rather, direct you over to Pocketables.net where Jenn has some images of the device along with specifications.
I will add that Hanbit will probably offer the hardware with the original AMD platform and XP as a first step but thats not 100% yet. I was in touch with Hanbit last month about this and a review model has already been promised.
The original Pepper Pad information (Images and a full review) are available here.
