Netbook
Porting webOS to a touchscreen ARM netbook
Motivation
webOS is designed for users to search data and create new data, by means of a keyboard built in to each phone. Typedown filter lists allow users to quickly find an item amid thousands. Netbooks marry the high-input-bandwidth of a keyboard to the high (for a mobile device) output bandwidth output of a display. Netbooks running a desktop OS failed, because mobile design is different than desktop design. Netbooks running webOS will combine the ease-of-use of webOS with high-bandwidth input, making it ideal for mobile serch and mobile content creation.
Goals
- Demonstration of standard webOS apps running on a netbook
- packaging open-source webOS to make installing it as easy as it can be.
Hardware
First priority is to identify suitable hardware, with a multitouch screen. We need to find an initial target platform that is currently available.
What kind of graphics chips can be made to work?
Possible
Always Innovating Touch Book Netbook v2 The company is all about open hardware and varying OSs.
SG-TPC TPC0801 Can't find mfg page, which would make it a poor initial target.
Toshiba AC 100 Toshiba's site doesn't acknowledge this, so it may have been discontinued.
Not Possible
chromebooks (no touchscreen)