If you didn’t already know – pictures of the CrunchPad prototype have popped up all over the web. What is the CrunchPad? Well it was an idea for a inexpensive touch-screen computer proposed by Michael Arrington of TechCrunch. He puts it better of course:

“The goal – a very thin and light touch screen computer, sans physical keyboard, that has no hard drive and boots directly to a browser to surf the web. The operating system exists solely to handle the hardware drivers and run the browser and associated applications. That’s it.”

Thanks to several partners (but apparently the biggest player being Singapore-based Fusion Garage), images of a working prototype have surfaced on the web. The system utilizes an Intel Atom processor, can be built for less than $250 dollars and runs Ubuntu Linux.

The real question is – aside from Mr. Arrington – how many of you out there would consider getting a device such as this if it was priced at under $250?

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