LimePC Redefines Ultra Mobile Computing
Information is still a bit scarce on this one, but Texas-based Freescale Semiconductor appears to have packed their six-shooters for CES this week. Announced earlier this year, Freescale’s MPC5121e can be seen in action as it powers the first in an upcoming line of ultra-ultra-mobile PCs dubbed LimePC. LimePC is smaller than an iPod Nano and it runs LimeOS which is essentially an HTML rendering environment based on Debian Linux. In a nutshell, it packs a full Linux PC with triple-core architecture into a device that will fit comfortably into the smallest of pockets. This tiny wonder won’t be challenged when it comes to connectivity either. USB 2.0, 802.11g Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1 have somehow all been crammed in. What perhaps may be the most important spec about LimePC products is still unknown: battery life. Freescale’s technology is very green when it comes to energy consumption but add-ons like WiFi and Bluetooth make it hard to believe that the devices will offer note-worthy battery performance. Initially becoming available in the Chinese market, we can expect to see LimePC products surface in the US around the 2008 holiday season.
wow that’s cool. we will have to see what it can really do once in use and of course the bat life needs to be useful
I smell vapor.
Luckily I’ve hidden my heart way down deep so that it will never again be broken by these drool worthy gadgets that don’t materialize.
Sweet, but for a computer isn’t that a little small? I mean how can you touch the screen? I’m looking at my car keys and they’re smaller, duh, but that’s hella small. I don’t think that’s gonna come true, in this lifetime anyways.
yeah sometimes smaller isn’t better.
I’ll be surprised if this is even made.