Since that time, there have been other products (OQO, some tablets, etc) that used the same Crusoe processor that have completely bombed in the marketplace due to the poor performance of the devices. Both tablets that I’ve tried out that used a Crusoe processor literally jumped to >90% processor usage just by using IE and jumped pretty high even with just Notepad open.

The main reason for the Crusoe was because of its low power consumption. Now there are other alternatives out there for mobile processors that have fairly competitive power consumption to the Crusoe, but have much better performance.

I’ve got my fingers that a change in chipset is what is holding up the release of the FlipStart. My only faith in this opinion is that their site only lists “1GHz Processor” now instead of listing it as the Crusoe.