14 DAY TRIAL // It was only a matter of time before it happened and, finally, Toshiba seems to be selling an entry-level mobile PC powered by NVIDIA's Tegra 2 SoC, or at least the multinational shopping group Metro seems to have added it to its catalog.
So far, with some exceptions, netbooks have been mostly powered by Intel's Pine Trail platform, with even AMD's latest CPUs just now showing up in new devices.
Still, the ARM architecture has been trying to make an incursion into this market segment for some time now, and it seems that Toshiba may have made this dream come true.
What seems to have occurred, according to a certain catalog, is that the Metro multinational shopping group is now selling the Toshiba Android AC100-10K.
This product is, essentially, a netbook based on NVIDIA's Tegra 2 system-on-chip, the Tegra 250 mobile web processor to be exact.
The product also boasts 512 MB of DDR2 memory, whose clock speed is of 533 MHz.
NVIDIA's Tegra 2 SoC is known for supporting advanced multimedia capabilities, but the operating system itself is not exactly the most recent, hinting at a likely less than groundbreaking performance.
Unfortunately, the full list of specifications was not made available, so details like the storage capacity, among other things, are unavailable.
As for looks, the design of the machine is no different than that used by any other netbook, being built with a 10-inch WSVGA TruBrite display.
It is unclear which version of the Android OS operating system is used, though signs seem to point towards, according to Fudzilla, Android 2.1.
Considering that neither NVIDIA nor Toshiba have actually issued any press releases to promote this laptop, one can assume it may not be particularly outstanding.
As for pricing, the Tegra 2 netbook has a price of 298.90 Euro, or 249 Euro without a tax reseller price.