Pepper Pad offers Linux-based Web tablet for sofa surfing
It seems like a great idea: making a computer that's somewhere between the size of a cell phone and a laptop, for people to carry around and surf the Web.
It's such a great idea that about a dozen companies have tried it, but most of these gadgets have met with such complete apathy among consumers you'd think they were made of ignoranium.
The Pepper Pad 3 is a new entry in this difficult field. It's a big slab-style tablet, almost 6 by 12 inches wide and an inch thick, with a small keyboard and a 7-inch touch screen. It lists for $850, but is available for $700 online.
Under the hood, the components are what you'd expect from a small laptop: a 20-gigabyte hard drive, 256 megabytes of memory, and a slow but power-thrifty 500 megahertz Advanced Micro Devices Inc. processor. As you might expect, there's no DVD drive.
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