Toshiba AC100 (or Dynabook AZ in Japan,

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device from

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that was announced in June 2010.

Technical details

Hardware

The mainboard is derived from the Nvidia Tegra Harmony reference board. The main CPU is a Tegra 250 SoC which consists of: * dualcore 1 GHz

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processor, 1 MB L2 cache * ULP GeForce GPU * DDR2 controller, 512 MB RAM (256+256 MB chips) * dual display controller (lvds+hdmi) * jpeg encoder/decoder * video encode/decoder * sound chip It is able to remain in stand-by mode for up to 7 days. Supplemental chips are (among others) * embedded flash (type depends on the model, e.g. Toshiba THGBM2G7D4FBAI9) * embedded controller (ENE KB926QF-D3?) * power management unit TPS658622A * Wifi (Ralink/MSI rt3070sta) * Bluetooth chip (optional) * 3G modem (optional,

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Software

It is supported in the

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through a

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file. The AC100 is the reference device for the Ubuntu ARM port. OS is Android v2.1 (upgradable to v2.2 since 2011 ).

Availability

The device was officially available at the Toshiba

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site. The AC100 was discontinued in 2011 and is no longer being manufactured.

Reception

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listed the AC100 as one of the 25 "unique and bizarre breakthroughs" in laptop innovation, because it was one of the first laptops that ran Android.

References

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External links

Toshiba AC100 wiki

Toshiba AC100 Russian wikielinux.org Toshiba AC100
Linux-based devices Smartbooks Toshiba Computer-related introductions in 2010