@Jesus_Jones: Source article confirms it's resistive.
Why would that matter? Pen works much better on a mouse based UI anyway. (though Win7 is designed to be finger friendly I guess)
I used that resistive touchscreen before in an acer and it's like reading trough 20 layers of clingfilm and it feels like you're touching the screen with a prophylactic on the end of whatever appendage you choose to use. #dellmini9
@MarcusMaximus: Adolescent Jesus is fairly indifferent. Hormones, you know. Adult Jesus would've whipped the shit out of you. Dead Jesus would have a blast freaking out his old friends during the resurrection.
"BOO!"
*heart attack*
"Oh man you should've seen your face! Uh....Mark? Eh well I'll see you in a bit."
I'm interested in how he is going to do the accelerometer. I've looked into that myself and found no easy solution. Unless I completely missed something, which is possible.
@Parapraxis: perhaps i should reiterate, I haven't found a method that wasn't cost prohibitive. Yeah, you can do anything if you throw enough money at it.
It streams video much better than the HTC Hero, in fact it supports Youtube HD which no other device does! Netbooks powered by Intel X86 processors can't even playback Youtube in HD smoothly!
What Archos is simply saying, is that full Flash 10 support comes whenever Adobe releases it Q1 next year.
I have an Archos 5 60gb and I like it but the video out though the dock is crap and their propriatary connectors break and are generally annoying. They need to switch to standard USB and HDMI for me to ever buy another product from them.
Besides that it's the best PMP I've ever had playing any codec I throw at it unlike the touch or zune which is limited to just a couple codecs.
I'd hope for a little more functionality than just another iPhone/iPod. A stylus that will allow you to write and draw (with pressure sensitivity) would be the killer Mac Tablet (MacLet?) feature for me. I would love to be able to replace the mountains of legal pads that my job requires and the mountains of sketchbooks and assorted reams of paper that I have lying around for when inspiration strikes.
I can deal with not having internet access in the toilet and with having to read a book instead of watch a movie in full 1080p while traveling, but I'd love something that allows for free roaming creativity. To me, that'd be worth 800 bones.
If Apple has half a brain they will bite the cost and provide a bluetooth Apple keyboard for the tablet including multitouch trackpad. Give it hooks to latch onto the tablet screen side as a cover and so they can travel together easily. Then throw in an extra battery into the base to double the system battery life and now you have the absolute best of both worlds. If I want to browse on the couch or watch a movie on a plain go tablet mode. Want to work for a few hours on simple office apps, stick the keyboard on and go. I would pay a fantastic amount of money for the described system. You?
@LillianDuge: This sounds like the opposite of what Apple would be interested in. I don't think Apple is going to be making machines that snap into each other any time soon.
Just out of curiousity, has anybody here used a tablet extensively? How is the productivity for, say, writing code or typing a paper as compared with a keyboard system? Do you hook up a wireless keyboard for that kind of work or do you use handwriting recognition exclusively or voice input exclusively? I have always been intrigued by them, but I am just not sure how productive they'd be for everyday use.
@craighyatt: I think thats part of the problem with how MS marketed the tablets in the past and how some people are perceiving it now.
Its not a replacement. Its not a laptop replacement, its not a desktop replacement. Its a supplement.
There are things that are going to be harder then they would on a normal computer. Writing code or typing a paper for example (anyone I've ever seen doing those things on a tablet now always uses the keyboard).
On the flip side its going to be better for other things like web, video music etc.
@craighyatt: I have a Lenovo convertible X200 tablet as my work laptop. It's a great machine. It has a keyboard for fast text input and the handwriting recolonization is better than I expected. In tablet mode it works great while I'm walking around at a job site and surfing on the couch.
@Xndingo: I highly doubt it since leopard requires an x86 architecture. It will probably be something new that they put together from the ground up. INC itablet OS X.
@kingbob337: Leopard can be made to run on anything. Technically Leopard is what powers the Phone/Touch too. Its not a full client version of the software, but it most certainly IS OS X running on it.
@Jim Topoleski: I think you missed his point. It's not that it runs some kind of MacOS - it's: will it run his preexisting apps. Leopard (of some sort) on an ARM won't do that.
So this hypothetical tablet, regardless of its potential, becomes a super-iPod touch, not a tablet Macintosh.
The problem is that there is a rapidly growning range of fully functional PC touchscreen notebooks and netbooks which offer far more than this, but at comparable prices (or even less) without any compromises.
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Why would that matter? Pen works much better on a mouse based UI anyway. (though Win7 is designed to be finger friendly I guess)
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AAPL?
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"BOO!"
*heart attack*
"Oh man you should've seen your face! Uh....Mark? Eh well I'll see you in a bit."
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I'll sic Cheney on your ass!
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Found in 5 seconds searching on google.
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Plus I want one that I can modify to go under the bezel because I'll be taking the laptop apart and making a new case for it.
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Or better yet, an iPhone with the Spirilt level app duct taped to the side of the tablet?
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[www.phidgets.com]
(replaced link with one that looks more easily embedded into the device -- and looks to be real-time instead of "record and download")
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It streams video much better than the HTC Hero, in fact it supports Youtube HD which no other device does! Netbooks powered by Intel X86 processors can't even playback Youtube in HD smoothly!
What Archos is simply saying, is that full Flash 10 support comes whenever Adobe releases it Q1 next year.
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And that's why I don't buy their products anymore.
My old Archos 505 was like a dream come true player back then... so I decided to pay a high price for it, with import taxes and all.
Only I didn't knew I'd have to pay almost double the price to have all the functionalities it initially promised.
You have to pay for codecs, the video cable is proprietary, the dock that enables you to record video is expensive as hell, and so on.
Lesson learned. No more enclosed internet tablets with proprietary OSs. I'll just wait some more for a decent netblet.
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Besides that it's the best PMP I've ever had playing any codec I throw at it unlike the touch or zune which is limited to just a couple codecs.
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[www.archos.com]
It plays
.vob .mpg .ps .mkv .m4v .mov .wmv mpeg2 avi mpeg4. H264, MP3, AAC
The origional A5 is the best video player I've ever used even with it's faults.
Oh and it uses windows explorer which makes it really easy to just drag and drop files on and off. No stupid syncing.
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I miss the simpler times of Archos -- as they were my first mp3 player -- FYI I still have it if anyone wants it. Still works.
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No the 3G stands for 3rd Generation.
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I can deal with not having internet access in the toilet and with having to read a book instead of watch a movie in full 1080p while traveling, but I'd love something that allows for free roaming creativity. To me, that'd be worth 800 bones.
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Pen url: [www.amazon.com]
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I like this one more:
[www.thinkgeek.com]
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Its not a replacement. Its not a laptop replacement, its not a desktop replacement. Its a supplement.
There are things that are going to be harder then they would on a normal computer. Writing code or typing a paper for example (anyone I've ever seen doing those things on a tablet now always uses the keyboard).
On the flip side its going to be better for other things like web, video music etc.
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So this hypothetical tablet, regardless of its potential, becomes a super-iPod touch, not a tablet Macintosh.
The problem is that there is a rapidly growning range of fully functional PC touchscreen notebooks and netbooks which offer far more than this, but at comparable prices (or even less) without any compromises.