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Apple's January 27th Event
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Oh my, am currently sat here at work and its getting late and my attention just wondered over to my colleagues desk, where there is sat a HP TC1100 tablet...
The thought of an iPod touch with a screen that's almost that size, coupled with a multitouch interface is exciting to say the least. Especially given that it will be a $650 maintenance free computer. No more making sure that all 4 of my Macs have similar configurations. I'll only need to do it for 3 macs instead. Whooo!
Haha can you imagine the keynote introducing that??
The thought of an iPod touch with a screen that's almost that size, coupled with a multitouch interface is exciting to say the least. Especially given that it will be a $650 maintenance free computer. No more making sure that all 4 of my Macs have similar configurations. I'll only need to do it for 3 macs instead. Whooo!
should have got an iBus
Haha can you imagine the keynote introducing that??
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should have got an iBus
An iBus... now i would buy one of those... lets petition apple to get on that now
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I would look fantastic, but would run on iGas only and it would only drive on roads deemed appropriate and it wouldn't go over speed bumps.should have got an iBus
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I used a TC1100 a lot back when they were released. I was disappointed when HP stopped developing the line and went back to boring conventional convertible laptop/tablets like everyone else. They were really nice machines in some ways. With modern components they'd be an interesting proposition...
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Or flash isn't there because it's a ridiculous CPU hog even on laptops under OSX (actually under most unix based systems) and it allows the execution of uncontrolled code (whether you agree with it or not this is something apple have been fairly consistent on).
To be honest I think you're going into the realm of conspiracy and underestimating the time it takes to bring stuff to market. Fixing every last thing and adding every last feature people are moaning about could have added another 12 months to the development time...
Even if it was true - they're allowed to make money and you don't have to buy now or upgrade later. You could easily level the same accusation at Nokia (half baked N97 followed by the N900 and no backporting of maemo to the N97 - should be fairly possible technically) or many others.
do you mean android? if so 2nd half of this year by MSi with a price tag expected to be £300. I just hope they keep a phone like UI, otherwise it will fail due to being such a niche market.
http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2010/01/28/msi-tablet-incoming-first-ipad-rival-revealed/
I think he probably means Chrome OS, which was announced a couple of months back. There should be netbooks shipping with it by the end of the year methinks, but they've not announced anything about tablets yet.
Didn't realise there was a new OS.
What is it, somewhere between android and a full OS like windows?
Oh it's totally web based. Does that mean if your internet connection drops you can't do anything?
Any android tablets with ~10" similar to Ipad?
What is it, somewhere between android and a full OS like windows?
Oh it's totally web based. Does that mean if your internet connection drops you can't do anything?
Any android tablets with ~10" similar to Ipad?
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We had hundreds of the damn things. In my experience they were ruddy awful! Ours had a Celeron and they were terribly slow, and the reliability wasn't up to scratch, a high proportion developed faulty screens.
Kind of, yeah. It's very much like iPhone OS in that it's a very stripped down OS designed for low power devices such as netbooks. It won't have a file system either. You'll be able to watch videos, listen to music, browse the web, etc.
As for the web based thing, the OS apparently sees things like Facebook and YouTube as "Applications". So you'll get an icon to it on your desktop, and you click it and it'll open Facebook in your browser. Google has said that nearly everything will be web based. For instance, there won't be a document editing suite like iWord, it'll be Google Docs and based in the cloud.
Google has said it won't be completely open, it'll only ship with devices that they want to put it on. So you might buy a Dell mini 10 with Chrome OS on it. Because of this I'd imagine that Google will mandate they have some sort of 3G connectivity so you're never really without access.
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Oh absolutely, they were underpowered even with the top end processor - I just liked the design and concept, the execution fell down in the details. Why I said with modern hardware they would be interesting.
It depends on the website, HTML5 supports local storage and offline modes so things like Gmail will work offline.
But I couldn't store ebooks of avi files and play them. Unless it's connected to the inter webs?
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I thought Chrome OS was centralised around a big central browser?
Android sounds promising, but I've yet to see a definitive UI.
Android sounds promising, but I've yet to see a definitive UI.
http://www.trustedreviews.com/software/news/2009/11/20/Google-Unveils-Chrome-OS/p1
The video seems to say no localised file storage and no hard-wired applications. Which means unless you have internet connection it's a paperweight. Mobile devices should have a stripped down OS, but that if correct is to far. Means when travelling if you are in a black spot you can't do anything.