Re: A Stay At Home Tablet...
 

Karel, if you pay now in advance you'll be the first customer :D

Re: A Stay At Home Tablet...
 

The Amazon Kindle form factor would be nice for a "coffee table" style device.

Re: A Stay At Home Tablet...
 

funny I was just thinking today if they could give is a device about 2.5x - 3x the size of the N8x0 display they can easily increase the battery size = life...it would not need much more in terms of internal hardware...ARM3 would be nice enough.

Of course an Electrowetting full color display is a given since we are building the , ahem, 'perfect one size fits all' device. ;) It would be best if one could origami the display to fit into your pocket...

FYI you can keep your Linsux for yourself...hehehehe...JUST KIDDING!!! I am actually spending the next year learning Linux for fun after all these decades...still nothing like re-inventing the wheel everytime you want to issue a command with something a quaint as a typing on a keyboard for anything beyond data input on a pocket device.

Re: A Stay At Home Tablet...
 

Bring the cost down on the Wacom Cintiq, make it thinner, add the requisite wireless connectivity options, and there you have it.

Re: A Stay At Home Tablet...
 

zoomed to unreadability more like it...

as for interface, i prefer hardware keys over touch screen.

Re: A Stay At Home Tablet...
 

I want a stay-at-home tablet too. I have been reluctantly realizing that I really don't need a device that fits in my pocket that much. I use the N800 at home, in my car, and on the train, and occasionally in some wireless cafe, which I go to by car.

Though I do carry it in my pocket, I don't need to. When I go on a cruise ship, it's in my luggage.

If I was taking the subway daily, as I did in Manhattan and Moscow and Barcelona, the N800 would be ideal. I wouldn't want an ostentatious big tablet that advertised to my fellow travelers that I would be a good victim to rob. But if I'm traveling with a briefcase or luggage or a car, why do I need to restrict the space of my tablet that much?

To me, the eee-PC sounds right. I want it to be cheap and to start quickly, and to have inexpensive apps and be open. You know, Linux!

Re: A Stay At Home Tablet...
 

How about a Motion Computing M1400 Tablet? Available for under $400 on ebay.

Re: A Stay At Home Tablet...
 

Hm. Could probably get that functionality out of the Modbook (customized Macbook, made into a tablet). But that assumes you're either Mac oriented (as opposed to Linux oriented), or that you're fine with migrating back and forth between Mac and Linux.


An 8"-9" modbook, with virtual translucent split-thumb keyboard (like the Samsung Q1 model that doesn't have a physical split-thumb keyboard), and whose price was a bit lower, would be attractive to me. Someone tried to make something similar to that out of a Mac-mini. Looks kinda blocky though.

Re: A Stay At Home Tablet...
 

In otherwords, a Modbook :-)

(since OS X is Nextstep 6.0, and Quartz is DisplayPDF which evolved from DisplayPS)

Re: A Stay At Home Tablet...
 

Don't mock it; I've been thinking seriously about a Modbook. I'd have to sell my soul to get one, but it just might be worth it...

Then again, Tex will probably argue that I don't have that item to sell anymore. :D