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Re:Did Arrington actually pull off the CrunchPad WiFi tablet? by catone on Thursday April 09, 2009 @07:19PM (#555362)
TechCrunch would never respect a company asking them to take down leaked photos... and these weren't leaked, they were published publicly. By which I mean: Can someone who has local copies of these put them up somewhere? (Dustin?)

I'd be interested to see them.

Also, not sure what the netbook comment in the post really means. It was pretty evident how big netbooks were going to be after the first Eee PC went for sale, which was late 2007. But that doesn't really matter, since Arrington's tablet isn't really anything like a netbook (at least, not as they're traditionally defined now).

We're going to start to see a lot of cheap, touchscreen tablet PCs running Linux and Android (and maybe Windows 7), though, over the next couple of years.

Re:Did Arrington actually pull off the CrunchPad WiFi tablet? by wave on Thursday April 09, 2009 @07:33PM (#555379)
It is nicely designed. Here is what it looks like:

http://zee.posterous.com/did-arrington-actually-pull-off-the...

Re:Did Arrington actually pull off the CrunchPad WiFi tablet? by jrnkntl on Thursday April 09, 2009 @07:54PM (#555408)
And this is what the packaging looks like: http://bit.ly/WTxHK

[update] pictures are back up at the original posting

Re:Did Arrington actually pull off the CrunchPad WiFi tablet? by catone on Thursday April 09, 2009 @07:52PM (#555406)
Thanks! Those looks pretty slick.
Re:Did Arrington actually pull off the CrunchPad WiFi tablet? by dcurtis on Thursday April 09, 2009 @08:02PM (#555418)
If I was going to launch something like this, I'd want to keep it secret until it was ready for market. Arrington obviously made a mistake by posting the photos, and it ruined the surprise.

I took them down to be nice. TechCrunch has never done me harm. But I put them back up because they seem to have propagated everywhere now.

Re:Did Arrington actually pull off the CrunchPad WiFi tablet? by jonursenbach on Thursday April 09, 2009 @08:11PM (#555428)
No he leaked them on purpose to drive up interest in the project. What we're all doing right now is exactly what he wants.
Re:Did Arrington actually pull off the CrunchPad WiFi tablet? by dcurtis on Thursday April 09, 2009 @08:13PM (#555436)
It's possible. I'm happy to drive up interest in this though. It looks like a genuinely awesome product.
Re:Did Arrington actually pull off the CrunchPad WiFi tablet? by Jigta on Thursday April 09, 2009 @10:02PM (#555558)
If thats the case, you should have updated the post saying "seeing as how the photos are now everywhere, Im putting the pictures back up."