History of video games/Platforms/Pepper Pad

Development
In January of 2002 Pepper computer was founded in Lexington, Massachusetts.

On December 17th, 2003 the Pepper Pad Wi-Fi Suite was announced. This hardware was later demoed at CES 2004.

Launches
The Pepper Pad was launched in 2005.

The Pepper Pad 3 was launched in 2006.

Legacy
Sales were not good, leading to the Pepper company downsizing in 2007.

Compute
The Pepper Pad Wi-Fi suite is powered by an Intel XScale PXA255 clocked at 400 megahertz. This CPU was based on the strongARM architecture.

The Pepper Pad Wi-Fi suite has 256 megabytes of SDRAM.

The system has a 2D graphics accelerator on the LCD controller.

Hardware
The Pepper Pad Wi-Fi suite has 32 megabytes of flash storage, and a 1.8 inch PCMCIA 5 gigabyte hard drive. An SD card slot is used for expandable storage.

The Pepper Pad has a 8.4 inch TFT LCD touchscreen with a resolution of 600 by 800 pixels.

The Pepper Pad Wi-Fi suite supports Wi-Fi b with dual antennas, and also supports bluetooth.

The Pepper Pad is powered by two lithium polymer batteries in series to provide a capacity of 3400mAh.

Software
The Pepper Pad Wi-Fi Suite runs Linux 2.4 and supports Java applications.

Compute
The Pepper Pad 2 Intel XScale CPU is clocked at 624 megahertz.

Hardware
The Pepper Pad 2 has a 20 gigabyte hard drive and an SD card slot.

The display of the Pepper Pad 2 is a 8.4" TFT touchscreen with a resolution of 800 by 600 pixels.

The Pepper Pad 2 has Wi-Fi g and Bluetooth.

Software
The Pepper Pad 2 runs MontaVista Linux CEE.

Compute
The Pepper Pad 3 is powered by an AMD Geode LX800 processor clocked at 533 megahertz, and consuming between 0.9 and 1.8 watts of power. The system has 256 megabytes of RAM.

Hardware
The Pepper Pad 3 has 20 gigabytes of hard drive storage.

The Pepper Pad 3 uses a 7" CCFL lit LCD touchscreen with a resolution of 800 by 480 pixels.

Communication supported include Wi-Fi b/g, Bluetooth 2 + EDR, and IrDA.

The system is powered by a lithium polymer battery, which lasts around two to four hours.

Software
The Pepper Pad 3 runs Red Hat Linux with a kernel version 2.6.