Re: AFR: Sony's 2-screen Tablet P: a good idea gone wrong

2012-04-07 Thread S Page
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 18:33, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote: [Summary: 2-screen laptops need fairly deep software support because 2  screens don't look like 1 screen.  I excerpted freely below; see the link for the entire story. --gnu]

AFR: Sony's 2-screen Tablet P: a good idea gone wrong

2012-04-02 Thread John Gilmore
[Summary: 2-screen laptops need fairly deep software support because 2 screens don't look like 1 screen. I excerpted freely below; see the link for the entire story. --gnu] http://www.afr.com/f/free/technology/digitallife/g_ZWzfPcJsePV9VdQfxY9w1H Sony's tablet a good idea gone wrong PUBLISHED:

Re: AFR: Sony's 2-screen Tablet P: a good idea gone wrong

2012-04-02 Thread Jeffrey Kesselman
Interestingly enough... e ink screens CAN fold. They are just too slow for general tablet use. On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 9:33 PM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote: [Summary: 2-screen laptops need fairly deep software support because 2 screens don't look like 1 screen. I excerpted freely below;

Re: AFR: Sony's 2-screen Tablet P: a good idea gone wrong

2012-04-02 Thread Walter Bender
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Jeffrey Kesselman jef...@gmail.com wrote: Interestingly enough... e ink screens CAN fold.  They are just too slow for general tablet use. Nintendo DS has a pretty decent two-screen solution, but it runs an OS and apps designed for two screens -- touché. -walter