It's not the first time we're run into CUPP Computing's unique ability to blend the x86 and ARM platforms into one device -- at least in mock-up* form -- and just before the start of Computex 2011 here in Taipei we got a chance to know the company's latest iteration called PunkThis. The product is meant to replace your computer's 2.5-inch SATA hard drive with a board showing a effect ARM-based system along with a mini-PCIe socket -- the latter capable of accommodating a physically smaller SATA SSD to handle the missing storage for the x86 host. PunkThis is built around a Texas Instruments DM3730 1GHz ARM CPU with 512 MB of RAM and includes a WiFi radio, as well as connectors and cables to graphical user ui the board with living




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contemporary video, audio, and USB paraphernalia on the host minicomputer (no soldering required).



The netbook we got to play with was running Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) but was lacking WiFi support. It ran entirely next to Windows 7 which was powered by the new Atom processor. Switching OS-es is just a hotkey away, and battery life is supposedly doubled when the main x86 CPU is shut down and the only the girl board is operational. PunkThis also provides two microSD card slots -- one for system storage used by the ARM-based OS (Android in this case), the other for mass storage visible to both environments (shared space). Pricing is conjectural to remain below $200 and availability is determined in 8 weeks. That's pretty hardcore, but with a name like PunkThis would you expect any one thing less? Feast your eyes on our gallery and peek after the break for our hands-on video along with the obligatory PR.

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