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Engadget reporting on some hands-on time with Intel’s Ruby:

Hands-on with Intel’s Ruby handheld PC - Engadget - www.engadget.com

We kicked it at Intel’s Destination Innovation event yesterday afternoon, and while most of what we saw there wasn’t Engadget material — we couldn’t care less about yet another way to sort through our digital photos — getting our hands on the Ruby, a concept design for a PDA-sized PC that can run Windows XP (or Vista…), made it all worth while.

The one we played with was a little scuffed up (not by us, we swear), but James Song from Intel’s Systems Technology Lab schooled us on some of the Ruby’s features, like 8 hours of battery life, built-in wireless, a QWERTY keyboard, a low-voltage Pentium processor, the ability to automatically change screen orientation when you rotate the device (not sure how well that’d work in practice, but it’s an interesting prospect), and an active digitizer display so you can run Windows XP Tablet PC Edition on it (or whatever the Vista equivalent will be). They’re also thinking about developing a stripped down Linux-based OS to run on Ruby, but it wasn’t clear how far along they might be on that.

# posted by Rob Bushway @ 9:08 AM