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____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Thursday 12 June 2008 03:39 : \____
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Mark Kent
> <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:09:16 +0100
> <cvg5i5-abt.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>>> Netbook? MID? Is This PC Category for Real?
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>>>| "We're providing a totally different value," Ho told InternetNews.com.
>>>| "You don't need [Microsoft] Vista on these devices," he said, which means
>>>| less-demanding hardware requirements.
>>> `----
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>>> http://www.internetnews.com/hardware/article.php/3750841
>>>
>>> Here Comes the Asus 'Freee PC'
>>>
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>>>| I'm predicting that the successful pricing model for "mini me too" laptops
>>>| will look nothing like the notebook pricing model (where you always pay
>>>| full price for the hardware), and a lot like the cell phone pricing model
>>>| where you buy a service, and the hardware is heavily subsidized or given
>>>| away free.
>>> `----
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>>>
http://www.internetnews.com/commentary/article.php/3750916/Here+Comes+the+Asus+Freee+PC.htm
>>>
>>
>> The desktop is dead, long live the computer!
>>
>
> Far from dead; I happen to be sitting at one. I've yet to
> see a phone that allows me to comfortably touch-type; most
> of them have rather chicklety keyboards. Even my laptop's
> keyboard is less than ideal in that respect, though at
> least the keys thereon are full size. (The pictures I see
> of the Asus Eee make it look slightly smaller than my nx9010,
> and presumably a fair bit lighter as well.)
>
> I like this Dell USB keyboard though I wonder where they
> got it from.
>
> (There is a device that might allow one to touch type
> rather literally, but the tactile feedback is one aspect
> thereof; how does one know one's pressed a phantom laser
> key?)
>
> Of course in an ideal world one could plug in a keyboard
> with a USB port into one's phone, hook up a monitor
> through another port, and happily type away.
>
> And in an ideal world Microsoft would be open source.
> Oh well, can't have everything. ;-)
What about projected keyboard or speech recognition for input or more 'retinal'
devices for output? That stuff already exists, but some things (including the
market) are not yet ready.
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