Yes, it was in ANNOUNCE: Mephemeris - Astronomy Program.

I've lost patience waiting, honestly. I'd rather already have the hardware and continue to get updates than wait and wait and wait. The money I had set aside for it has already been spent on a particularly fully loaded Dell Mini9 (as folks recommended I do, elsewhere, as an impatient son of a gun that I am is want to do). I need my new gadget fix, dammit!

Gotta say--I'm very happy I chose the mini9 over the other netbooks!

Now, I just need the new more modern pocket-sized Linux gadget to replace my N800... and so far, I've not seen one. I'm getting pretty impatient about it.. but then I'm not sure I want to spend the money anymore since I sprung for the mini9. The long waiting and just talk-talk-talking about something that nobody can even buy or even point out a solid release date reminds me too much of the vapourware of the 80's from the likes of Atari and Commodore that never saw the light of day. I got pretty cynical after seeing that pattern a bunch of times. Doesn't always mean there's nothing there--but it happens enough to make me feel ranty and impatient.

Discuss!

I'm not really loving the Mini 9. The Atom is really a godawful piece of ****. Not being able to leave it sitting on a table alive and active for more than 4 hours (like I can do with my N800) is rather infuriating.

Not sure I follow you. I leave it on and alive for hours, monitoring it for temp and power all the time with no problems so far. I've been running Kubuntu 9.04 (beta, then RC's) for quite a while, though (almost as soon as I got it). Seems solid and stable to me. It DOES get hot at the keyboard (where it vents) when I push it too hard and so I do wish they'd had SOME kind of fan to help with that--but it never overheats and seems to run pretty solidly. I did find a bug in the Intel video driver that randomly makes the desktop restart.. but that's a driver error effecting even desktop PC's with a specific Intel video chipset similar to the one in the Mini9 and I didn't notice anything related to heat.

Anyway... this is veering into netbook discussion territory now. Let's get back to talking about the new, non-existant Nokia tablet.

I'm pretty sure he's talking more about battery life than heat.

I agree.

That's exactly the point. Hours, not days.

I really want an ARM-based netbook. . . .

OH! No no.. I understand you now.. and I wholeheartedly agree. A beefier ARM chipset netbook would be teh hella-hella-hella awesome.

I wonder how different will the fremantle beta be in this regard - whether the lower level stuff is more or less frozen, especially considering this would be probably one of the less useful features to implement in the fremantle alpha given to the hardwareless crowd.

Also, as already said in the other thread, it's still not a showstopper even if no compass/gyro is is there, it's just that you need something to calibrate the accelerometers to - the moon, or the brightest star/planet you can see.

Haha! Great idea! Hopefully the tablet gets in on some of this action!


YARR!
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Capt'nShampt'n

I want looong battery life, like 10 hours of constant surfing and media player use.