Looks like it might be running something other than Windows too – Radio shack is getting in a shoebox sized computer for surfing the web. It appears to be DC powered, has built in Ethernet, modem, VGA, and USB ports. This might make a good car computer if it is truly DC powered! [via] Link.
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Here is some information about whats in side or atleast what might be inside. They seem to be based on the AMD PIC(personal internet comunicator) same over all look and article states that it has an AMD CPU in it.
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Looks like it might be running something other than Windows too – Radio shack is getting in a shoebox sized computer for surfing the web. It appears to be DC powered, has built in Ethernet, modem, VGA, and USB ports. This might make a good car computer if it is truly DC powered! [
Here is some information about whats in side or atleast what might be inside. They seem to be based on the AMD PIC(personal internet comunicator) same over all look and article states that it has an AMD CPU in it.
here are some links to the AMD PIC information
Product Brief
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAssets/32081c_pic_pb_051105.pdf
here is some info from AMD board
http://www.amdboard.com/pic.html
looks like it will be based on the AMD Geod cpu. Could be a very fun thing to play with and see just what it can do.
I have pictures posted of the actual unit now: http://www.irrision.com/?p=32