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Fascinating gizmo - 3/6/2006 8:29:50 PM   
SirKenin


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Status: offline 		Microsoft is working on a new gizmo, a tablet PC. I have been waiting for someone to start on one of these things for a long time. This is the wave of the future in My books. Anyways, check out the video and let Me know what you think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqVszfrB_VI&eurl=

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RE: Fascinating gizmo - 3/6/2006 8:38:21 PM   
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Status: offline 		Tablet PCs have been around for awhile. My boyfriends family has one and it's quite nifty.

This one looks like a PSP or Nintendo DS on steroids.

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RE: Fascinating gizmo - 3/6/2006 10:29:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		we tested one at work awhile back but it was nothing like this cool gizmo. :)

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RE: Fascinating gizmo - 3/6/2006 10:59:10 PM   
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RE: Fascinating gizmo - 3/7/2006 7:02:57 AM   
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ORIGINAL: LuckyAlbatross

Tablet PCs have been around for awhile. My boyfriends family has one and it's quite nifty.

This one looks like a PSP or Nintendo DS on steroids.


Actually i would have to say it looks like an over-clocked Palm Pilot on steroids

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RE: Fascinating gizmo - 3/7/2006 7:11:06 AM   
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Status: offline 		i watched the video but couldn't get sound... it looks like a very small laptop... is it?

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RE: Fascinating gizmo - 3/7/2006 7:20:58 AM   
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If it didn't look so much like a fanservice for trekkies, It might be cool
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RE: Fascinating gizmo - 3/7/2006 11:21:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		It is basically a cross between a Palm Pilot and a PSP on steroids, as has been mentioned. Add some serious Halo gaming goodness and you have a real rush on your hands by the looks of things. I am in love with My laptop. If I had one of these toys I do not think I would even need it, though.

Intel has been focusing on developing for these things for years. Microsoft has been too. This is just the first time I have actually seen one of this magnitude. Very cool stuff.

By the way, I had trouble getting sound too. You have to click the volume button a couple of times.

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RE: Fascinating gizmo - 3/7/2006 3:37:47 PM   
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Status: offline 		Don't get too excited folks, it's an ad and nothing more. Most of these things end up being vaporware, and considering its Microsoft producing it that goes double. Plus tablets have been around for a long time and generally work well, people simply don't buy them. Too big a price (roughly $500 to $800 is the Microsoft quote for this thing) for doing too little when you can buy a laptop for the same price that does pretty much the same stuff but with a real keyboard and bigger screen. A why spend $500 for something you control with a stylus when you can buy a Palm for $100 if you want that?

I'll stick with my Crack-berry for portability and desktops for everything else. That way the office can't job me by making me work when I'm on the road. Yes, this might be the future, but that's been said before numerous times and I'll drink that kool-aide when it's for real.

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RE: Fascinating gizmo - 3/7/2006 6:36:20 PM   
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Status: offline 		See thats why I didnt get a palm pilot. Cause I need more that thing is ultimate for me. It suits my living style wayyy too well.


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RE: Fascinating gizmo - 3/7/2006 6:55:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		There has been nothing really good out in the tablet PC market yet. I have been following this for years.

By the way, for those who do any homework whatsoever, the Microsoft Origami is anything but paperlaunch or vaporware. This was a film pumped out by a marketting firm named DigitalKitchen... But the fun doesn't stop there. Check out http://www.origamiproject.com/

Microsoft and Intel predicted the eradication of the desktop platform. It's coming quickly, which is why they have been so heavily developing their own platform. No Platform. No O/S conceivably. And conceivably, you're done.

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RE: Fascinating gizmo - 3/8/2006 7:31:04 AM   
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Status: offline 		The origamiproject website was left up on My computer. I noticed they give a target date of March 9, 06. That is tomorrow. I wonder what we can look forward to?

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RE: Fascinating gizmo - 3/8/2006 12:35:00 PM   
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ORIGINAL: SirKenin

The origamiproject website was left up on My computer. I noticed they give a target date of March 9, 06. That is tomorrow. I wonder what we can look forward to?


I'm sure it'll be the usual blather about how great and innovative they are now that they've built a device that others put on the market 3 years ago *grin*. Tablets... been there, done that, and they are STILL too expensive to be anything other then a niche player in the market. If people are primarily interested in games, they'll pay $250 for a PSP, not $800 for origami. If people are interested in computing, they'll pay $600 for a laptop, not $800 for origami.

Truly, I'm glad you're excited about this. For those interested in tablets, I'm sure this is a huge deal, and I hope the hype from MS for once lives ups to expectations. If MS could get the price of such a thing down to $300, they'd have a hit. As it is, it'll go the same way as all tablets, it'll find a small niche and probably not make much of a difference in the world.

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RE: Fascinating gizmo - 3/8/2006 3:43:59 PM   
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Status: offline 		It is basically a small version of a laptop, in case you did not notice. It has a keyboard and everything. I was looking at one today. They are truly a cross between a PSP and a Palm Pilot. They are far more portable than a laptop. You can zip them up into day planner size pretty much. Provided it has an actual harddrive, not a flash card like the Viewsonic did.

If they can hit the $600-800 pricepoint I am sure it will be a huge hit.

By the way, why the hell are you trying to take the jam out of My donut? Get your own damn donut..

lol

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RE: Fascinating gizmo - 3/9/2006 4:12:58 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'm with Tantalus.

I am waiting for a hi-res (that looks better than 1200 dpi type on paper), easy on the eyes, color screen of approximately magazine size (9"x12"), no thicker than 1/2", with some rudimentary browser and/or cursor control and/or page-changer in the sub $200 USD range.

Here's the problem: marketers think that if someone spends more than $100 on something it had better do all kinds of things. That's how we keep ending up with products that are fancy PDAs that cost too much or stripped down laptops that perform too little.

I think an electronic book has to effectively replace *ALL* readable media: books, textbooks, comics, magazines, newspapers, dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc. It should come with a massive amount of public domain reading material in all of those categories. It doesn't need a keyboard or auxiliary mouse - although a docking station or data transfer line is probably a must. It doesn't need to play MP3s nor should it have speakers. It doesn't have to have a touchscreen or writing stylus with handwriting recognition. It just has to be a reading tool. Waterproof and generally shatterproof would be good - I might want to read in the bath or while I'm on the john. A hot-swappable battery should last a really, really, really long time under full use and be non-proprietary.

If it doesn't do those things or if it costs too much, why not just keep using my laptop?

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RE: Fascinating gizmo - 3/9/2006 8:31:13 AM   
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Status: offline 		Details are released now: it's being manufactured by three companies (not Microsoft) and will use the same software that other current tablets are using. Price point is still listed at $600 to $800. Yes, it does have a keyboard (separable which is nice). Beyond that... it's just a tablet with touch screen capabilities. That probably gives it a leg up over current tablets without touchscreens and styluses, so it'll probably sell a bit better. So the innovation here is to combine a tablet with PDA functionality. I don't think that stretches the genre far enough for it to change the way we compute in the long run, but maybe it's a step in the right direction. Laptops will remain the portable computer of choice until someone invents foldable 19 inch screens that smaller systems can use.

Update: forgot to mention - 7 inch screen, 2.5 hour battery life (horribly small, they need to fix that), it does not seem to actually have a keyboard (but one can easily be plugged in with USB), and Microsoft said "We've built the reference designs to sort of get the category started." Ummm... MS... what happened to all the OTHER tablets that came before thee, like the OQO which is very popular? Typical... others innovate, MS takes the ideas and claim them as their own *laugh*.

I don't like jam in my donuts, by the way. I love the old fashioned molasses kind of donuts that you can't get anymore. Yum!

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RE: Fascinating gizmo - 3/10/2006 1:12:36 AM   
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RE: Fascinating gizmo - 3/10/2006 7:35:28 PM   
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