What do they say about the Touch Book? 1 | 2 | 3
"California-based Always Innovating is living up to its name. The start-up has designed an all-in-one netbook that comes with a detachable keyboard and a touch screen so it can work as both a netbook and a stand-alone tablet in your hands, on your lap and — thanks to a magnet — on your refrigerator or other steel surface." (03/11/09) Read more 
"The device, which is expected to cost under $300 when it ships later this year, is one of the most innovative computer products I've seen lately and it comes from a company very few people have even heard of." (03/09/09) Read more
"One pound of that is the pull-out $299 1024z768 resolution resistive touchscreen, which has a magnetic back so you can stick it to the fridge as a picture frame; the other pound is the $100 keyboard, which has a second battery." (03/03/09) Read more
"The Touch Book is a versatile netbook that not only functions as a netbook, but also doubles up as a tablet. How is this possible? No, it won't employ the standard method of a swiveling display that covers the keyboard. Instead, the Touch Book's keyboard itself is detachable, where you'll then be treated to a 3D touchscreen user interface." (03/03/09) Read more
"Thanks to its design, apart from serving as both a netbook and a Tablet PC,...[the] Touch Book can also be utilized as a ‘a hand-held game device, or a video player. You can even reverse the keyboard to prop it up on a table in an inverted ‘V’. Finally, because it is magnetic, you can remove the keyboard and put the tablet on the fridge to serve as a kitchen computer or digital frame.’" (03/02/09) Read more
"This has got to be bar far one of the most impressive pieces of hardware I’ve seen in quite some time. The Touch Book, by a small California startup called Always Innovating, is designed to work both as a netbook (with an unheard of 10-15 hour battery life) when attached to its keyboard dock or as a touch tablet without it." (03/02/09) Read more
"The most interesting features of the Touch Book are its convertible tablet display which folds down to a tablet PC form factor with a touchscreen 3D interface. It’s completely based on open source software as well, running on a Linux-based variant of the Angstrom distribution and including Mozilla’s mobile Fennec web browser." (03/02/09) Read more
"In what’s probably the most impressive netbook to date, the Touch Book was unveiled at the DEMO conference today and is making headlines as a $299 tablet device that lays claim to a battery life of 10 to 15 hours. For $100 more, you can get a Touch Book that is a netbook and a tablet in one." (03/02/09) Read more
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