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CES: LimePC confuses us with its ThinPC |
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Written by Luck Kanthatham
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Thursday, 10 January 2008 |
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 I went by the LimePC booth and saw what I thought was pretty nice-looking all-in-one PC being displayed. With a 17" glossy widescreen LCD with built-in front speakers and a sleek wireless keyboard, equipped with a trackball, it would be quite a contender for the iMac and Dell XPS One.
It turned out that I was misled. The company was actually showcasing its ThinPC, a small-form factor PC. The screen and the keyboard were optional. Oh well, it was still quite nice.
The ThinPC is powered by the Freescale MPC5121e mobileGT processor (with 3D graphics and media processoring capabilities); it's a basically a PC on a chip. Piling on to the features are 802.11g WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, ethernet, USB 2.0 and VGA connector. It comes in 3 storage flavors: 30GB, 80GB and 100GB.
For the curious, yes, the ThinPC is powered by the same chip as their more popular UMPC, HandheldPC and Palm PC. In fact the motherboards of these products look very similar.
No words yet on its availability.
  
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