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2008-04-04 , 18:20
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Karel, if you pay now in advance you'll be the first customer
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2008-04-05 , 22:28
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The Amazon Kindle form factor would be nice for a "coffee table" style device.
 
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2008-04-06 , 07:12
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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.
 
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2008-04-06 , 15:45
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Bring the cost down on the Wacom Cintiq, make it thinner, add the requisite wireless connectivity options, and there you have it.
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Originally Posted by Benson View Post
Why does it matter? Resolution-independence means things will display right on whatever pitch, and ISO or ANSI size pages can be zoomed to fit. Even if you did have, say, an A6 tablet, and wanted to display an A4 document on it, you'd have no room for toolbar, page-selection scrollbar, etc.

I don't really see any gains to that sort of hardware standard switching; whatever resources would be expended in agitating for such change might be better applied agitating for resolution-independence, or better, fixing non-resolution independent (free/open) software.
zoomed to unreadability more like it...

as for interface, i prefer hardware keys over touch screen.
 
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2008-04-07 , 18:16
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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!
 
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2008-04-07 , 19:03
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How about a Motion Computing M1400 Tablet? Available for under $400 on ebay.
 
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2008-04-08 , 15:22
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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.
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Originally Posted by Karel Jansens View Post
A tablet NeXT!!!
In otherwords, a Modbook :-)

(since OS X is Nextstep 6.0, and Quartz is DisplayPDF which evolved from DisplayPS)
 
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2008-04-08 , 17:14
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Originally Posted by johnkzin View Post
In otherwords, a Modbook :-)

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