Mark Lanctot;190207 Wrote: > Interesting - first I thought it was a Tablet PC (those have been > discussed here - generally, they're as expensive as a laptop) but it > appears like it's a specialized device that runs .NET applications from > ROM. > > It would depend what the cost is. On the low cost end, you have the > Nokia 800, but its screen isn't nearly that big. On the high cost end, > you have the tablets and laptops. Somewhere in between, almost as much > as a laptop, is a device called a Pepper Pad 3. It would be > interesting to see where this fits. > > There is a .NET SlimServer viewer, highly developed and quite advanced, > called Moose: http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove/ Hopefully it'd be > able to run it.
Thanks for the Moose link. I played with it a bit and so far am pleased with it. It seems perfect for a tablet such as this one or the pepper. I believe the price of this unit falls closer to that of a laptop (I've seen used models selling near $1k). I believe there is value in having a flat device with touchscreen vs. a more cumbersome and possibly bigger/heavier laptop. I'm not sure I'd want to use a very small pda type screen, since that might be almost as tedious as using the remote. Between the Viewsonic and the Pepper, I guess the cost vs. screensize and other utility that you would want are the determining factors. I think my dream solution right now would be something like the N800 with a few more inches of screen, and perhaps a usb port as a nice bonus (to plug a modem into) to give it the cost-effective second utility of a remote 'go-anywhere' internet access device. -- Hamlet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hamlet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33224 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
