SMACH Z (fully funded on KickStarter!)

[DoomRater]

Okay, I've been dying for a handheld PC that does everything I want. I recently compromised by buying a weaksauce tablet, but it turned out to be too limited for everything that I wanted it to do. Sure it played music and on the go at that, but it wasn't going to be running a graphical Second Life viewer on any setting, let alone most games. Coupled with the fact I was always afraid of the battery dying when using it for literally anything at all, it fell short of an ultraportable laptop. I sadly found out that my smartphone is more capable than my Windows tablet.

Something that only costs three times as much as that tablet I bought promises to handle most AAA games on reduced settings. 5 hours of battery life while gaming? Color me piqued. I found out about the kickstarter only a day before it ended, so there was no way I could get in on that. However, it looks like they also set up an IndieGoGo crowdfunder as well to extend support past the KickStarter campaign. This is the second time they've tried to kickstart the project, they've already built prototypes with weaker hardware. I hope only success for these guys. Also I want one badly.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/smac ... pc-games#/

[Rachael]

Looks interesting. Definitely something I would want to keep an eye on.

I don't know if I will get one, though. Last month I got a smart phone that I could do literally anything with and it just sits under my laptop for days at a time.