InFocus
Kangaroo
The
market is already jammed with miniature portable computers, and now there is
another interesting addition to the mix. InFocus, an American electronics
company has announced the launch of Kangaroo.
At
just 124 mm length, 80.5 mm width, and 12.9 mm girth, the Kangaroo is the world's
smallest portable desktop computer, the company claims, and is roughly the size
of a smartphone. It comes with a removable base unit, which sports an HDMI
port, one USB 2.0 port, one USB 3.0 port, and a DC power port. The device
weighs just 200 grams (without adapter and power cord), and even features a
Windows Hello fingerprint sensor.
As
for other specifications, it is powered by a quad-core Intel 'Cherrytrail' Atom
x5-Z8500 processor clocked at 1.44 GHz, with a Burst frequency of 2.24 GHz. Other
features include 2 GB of LPDDR3 RAM, and a 32 GB of eMMC storage, which you can
expand via microSDXC card (up to 128 GB) should you need more storage.
There's
a battery inside too, which the company claims, can keep the device ticking for
four hours under "casual use", and the portable PC also bears a
Micro-USB port for charging. On the software front, the Kangaroo runs Windows
10. The mini-PC features Wi-Fi 802.11ac and Bluetooth 4.0 wireless
connectivity.
The Kangaroo is priced at US$ 99 (Rs. 6,500)
and is available for purchase starting today in the United States from online
retailer Newegg.com. The company says that it will begin to sell the pocket
computer at Microsoft Store starting mid-November.
For
those who haven't used any of these dirt-cheap small-shaped Windows devices,
here's a word of advice: don't expect it to handle your high-end chores such as
graphics intensive games. You should be able to do web browsing, play casual
games, and watch full-HD video files without a lag, however.
