Chicago (IL) - CherryPal told TG Daily that its $250 cloud computing PC is seeing additional delays. Originally scheduled to be introduced in early August, CherryPal has hit more road blocks, this time with the graphics hardware. The company will hold off launching the device for a couple more weeks.  

Being one of the most interesting new computing devices this year, the CherryPal reportedly has been pre-ordered in substantial numbers. But at least so far, customers are still waiting for their pal to arrive in the mail. Just a few days after the original launch date, the company confirmed that it would delay shipments to upgrade the solid state storage to a faster, higher quality version.

In an update provided by the company, we were told that a “glitch with the graphics processor” was found, which “absolutely needed to be addressed.” I company now believes that it will be shipping the CherryPal within two weeks, but declined to make any “guarantees”.

CherryPal is offering individuals who pre-ordered their PC a refund, if they do not want to wait for the final product.

two week dealy is not bad

Sep 22, 2008 14:57     

A two week delay is not long considering what it would take to return the unit if the problem was not solved before being shipped. :)
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Not surprised

Sep 23, 2008 22:14     

As the guy who conceived of this all-new PowerPC MPC5121e Freescale PC platform last year and led the R&D team at THTF to get it built, I can say that there were major framebuffer/graphics issues when I left THTF earlier this year... as well as other major hardware integration issues I believed would take at least this year to resolve. It really surprised me when I saw this too-early series of CherryPal rebranding/OEM announcements starting to appear this Spring. This can be a great little PC platform, but not based on the development PCBA. A whole new generation of dev is needed to get this ready for mass production.

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