This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh wrote: > I'm all for ultra-portable -- my laptop preferences are restricted to 12" or > 13" because I travel so much. I plug in to a 24" screen at home. :-)
Actually I think weight is more important than size. Under a kilo is pretty impressive! > So what does it have going for it? It's, uh, cheap. And the usefulness of > the product reflects that. That's about it. :-) I think you overestimate what most people need. To do word processing, email and web browsing, you really don't need that much. Though I agree, they could fit a 10" screen in -- and probably will. What's cool about this is that it's shown that much cheaper is possible (especially without software license costs). This will change the market. The success of this device guarantees that every Taiwanese chop shop will have their own versions within the year. -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed--they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce...? The cuckoo clock. - Orson Welles -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
