I like that companies are putting out little stripped down tablets, it means we’re moving into the future. But I can’t congratulate Albatron just yet. If you are going to embrace the future with a stripped down device intended for ubiquity and accessibility, for god’s sake don’t install Windows CE on it. Load it up with Xubuntu or some other flavor of low-end-compatible free OS. Nobody is going to run anything but a browser or media player on the thing, why would you complicate things by bringing Microsoft into the equation?
Aside from having CE and being shamelessly dubbed the “Tee PC,” it actually looks like a perfectly decent little device. It’s only 400MHz, with 128MB of RAM, but its screen is 800×480, which is big enough to watch DVD-quality video or browse the web without zooming in and out all the time. I’m concerned that they put quotes around “touch” in “touch” screen, though. This thing better be cheap as hell.
There’s definitely a reason there are different software and hardware companies out there – not every solution is perfect for every use! And not every software package or platform is perfect for every device either. It’s important I think when developing hardware for companies to think carefully about not only what it will do but how it will do it (and most importantly, how it will best do it!). It would seem obvious that you wouldn’t blindly put something that is good for business use on a multi-media- and entertainment-based piece of hardware without first doing some investigating on the logic behind that. Yes, Microsoft does make some decent products for business presentations, etc. that have multi-media capabilities (PowerPoint, etc.), but of course, that’s not what we’re talking about here. I’d definitely be interested to see how people use this and how well it performs long term …