DEFINITION: Shanzai [San-zai -alt. sp.Shanzhai] 1. mountain fortress/bandit 2. a vendor, who operates a business without observing the traditional rules or practices often resulting in innovative and unusual products or business models.
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 Ok, some quicky hardware specs. The device featured here is based on the classic netbook platform that is of course Intel's Menlow. You get the N270, 945GSE, 1GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive. Bluetooth, camera, card reader, and built-in 3G are also present. The screen is a 10.1 inch touch screen at presumably a resolution of 1366 x 768.
We've seeing rotating screen products coming out from a variety of vendors over the years but personally I'd have to argue that the compulsion to start using your notebook as a tablet PC has never been a strong one, and apart from the initial euphoria of being able to move your cursor around with your finger, it's rather disappointing. A good piece of that disappointment I believe was due, in part to the lack of refinement in software. Windows XP was simply not designed for a touch screen world. The question is, are the shanzhai, and indeed, their customers ready to make the jump to Win 7?     Analysis: With Windows 7 Microsoft claims to have solved these issues, offering a much more sophisticated and compelling touch screen experience that may just make the whole darn thing an easier sell. Multi-touch for example, which has become the norm on smart phone products, could see some action on rotating screens devices like one featured here. I think that only with the inclusion of Windows 7, the shanzhai could be on to a touch screen winner. On XP it's no deal man. Conclusions:
Long term, like it or lump it, screens are in time becoming more toucheable. I think what is key for the shanzhai is making the move to Windows 7, which may prove to be a stumbling block to successful rotating touch screen devices like this as well as other all-in-one and even tablet style devices. Shanzhai netbooks may well be capable of using Microsoft's new OS, but will the public go for it? Netbooks after all, are almost certain to see best performance in XP, despite what Microsoft has been telling us. And then there are licensing fees (if indeed such things still still exist in Shenzhen)? Which may yet prove to be a problem on the more affordable end of the device spectrum.
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All good points. It will be interesting to see what enrolls in this battle
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