Would the rumoured/anticipated Tablet be a full Mac OS X system?
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From: Wes Groleau on 23 Dec 2009 17:35 Fred Moore wrote: > Here's another tablet speculation, hot off the press: > > OLPC XO-3: An impossible $75 fantasy tab > <http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10421017-1.html> Get more detail at <http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/22/tablet-computer-negroponte-technology-cio-network-olpc.html> I'd pay $100. $150 if it ran something better than Windows. -- Wes Groleau Review of the article The Overwhelmed Generation in FL Annals http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/barrett?itemid=1313
From: Mark Doppelblum on 23 Dec 2009 20:37 On 12/22/2009 02:22 PM, Michelle Steiner wrote: > But mostly, I do browse the web with it Same here. I read the New York Times and the WSJ with my iPhone every morning while I commute to work. It's great! Try it: http://www.nytimes.com http://online.wsj.com/home-page
From: Fred Moore on 24 Dec 2009 11:02 In article <michelle-4ED8AF.09552823122009(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > In article <fmoore-969294.11242223122009(a)feeder.eternal-september.org>, > Fred Moore <fmoore(a)gcfn.org> wrote: > > > Thanks for responding, Michelle. I do now get a little better idea of > > why a Touch could could be useful. The email might be handy, though my > > preference would be to phone someone. > > I find that I'm using email instead of txt messages and MMS messages when I > know the recipient can receive email on her (or his) phone. I opted not to > have the txt message package add-on to my iPhone plan with AT&T. Yeh, I originally had texting turned on on my LG phone using Sprint just in case I wanted to text someone (I never did use that function). Then I started getting spam text messages for which I was being charged, so I have now blocked texting entirely. > It's also easier to email a URL than to tell someone the URL on the phone. Hard to argue with that!
From: Paul Sture on 31 Dec 2009 06:04 In article <231220090025297164%star(a)sky.net>, Davoud <star(a)sky.net> wrote: > Paul Sture: > > > I actually saw this on a dumb terminal some 20 years ago. You could use it > > > like a normal 24 x 80 terminal but when you rotated the screen it > > > automatically switched to 66 x 132 for reading computer listings. > > David Fritzinger: > > I know Radius made a monitor for Macs that did the same thing, sometime > > back in the late '80s or early '90s, I think. > > The Radius Pivot. I bought one with my Mac IIci in 1991. It seemed like > magic at the time. Weighed 11,000 metric tons. > That's the right time frame. I've a feeling the one I saw could do Arabic. -- Paul Sture
From: Wes Groleau on 31 Dec 2009 16:18
Paul Sture wrote: > That's the right time frame. I've a feeling the one I saw could do > Arabic. Since the iPod touch does handwriting recognition very accurately for Chinese, I suspect it would be trivial for Apple to do any other script. I don't understand why they didn't, considering that keyboard sucks, and (I've heard) "Ink" is very good. -- Wes Groleau Learning to see the forest instead of the trees. http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/WWW?itemid=75 |