Cross PC U150 overtakes Eee Keyboard, now available in China

Ever since the Eee Keyboard was announced, people have been eyeing it with interest we haven’t seen since the Commodore C64 came out. Asus has kept on delaying its release so Chinese manufacturer Great Wall went ahead and sold their own version.

The Cross PC U150 bundles all the PC components you need into a handy keyboard package. What’s interesting is they were even able to squeeze in a touchscreen LCD display on where the numpad should be, making it much more usable. Some specs:

Cross PC U150

• 5″ touchscreen embedded
• Intel Atom processor
• NVIDIA Ion graphics
• 2GB RAM
• 250GB HDD
• WiFi
• full-keyboard
• Handwriting recognition
• VGA, HDMI out

It doesn’t sport a battery so I’d guess it makes this a nettop of sorts and needs external power to keep on running. Just don’t tug on the power cord too often. It also has no support for dual displays so it’s either you use the tiny display or plug in a bigger one. That’s a bummer since would have been nice to use it for input.

It’s now for sale in China for 3888RMB or US$570

source Cloned in China