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PDA and Subnotebook Killer?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the see,-size-does-matter dept.

Purdah writes "I found this site with a description of a new type of palm sixed PC. It runs windows and would be great for mobile uses like music and movies (says it can store 3 movies). Extracts below are from the official website: complete Windows XP wireless handheld computer, cradle to dock with a keyboard and monitor, transforming the OQO to a full feature desktop machine, media player mode with enough memory for 1000 songs or three feature length movies, optimization for cool running and miserly power consumption" Looks a little vaporous to me, as well as thick. But there's an awful lot of potential if they get it right.

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  1. How many more times can we post this? by sweetooth · · Score: 5, Insightful

    http://slashdot.org/articles/02/04/16/1732252.shtm l?tid=137

  2. Re:Vapor, again. by Overzeetop · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Damn, the mods are pretty rabid today ;-)

    I almost got excited. I went to the page and thought "oh, yeah, this has been here before. But hey - maybe they're shipping now. Um, then again...maybe not."

    I was just pointing out that nothing has changed but the snazzy graphics.

    Mod this one down too, I'm just posting again to be annoying.

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  3. Sick of hearing it... by SlashChick · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Flash must die. This website is a good example of why flash is a bad, bad, thing."

    Please STOP BLAMING THE TOOL!

    This is like saying "I know this really annoying website... and it's made from HTML, so HTML must suck." You even said in your original post that you have found a great Flash site ("PBSkids.org [pbskids.org] where my kids can play games with cookie monster..."), so what is the problem?

    Yeah, the linked site is ugly: puke-green coloring and big blinking annoyances. But this isn't Macromedia's fault. Please stop blaming Flash for bad site designers. Bad site designers will be bad site designers, regardless of the tools you give them.

    The best thing you can do is to contact the company's marketing department (obviously without using the webmaster@ email address, as this will likely go directly to the site designer) and tell them that you don't like their site. Instead of saying "it's ugly", give concrete reasons why you didn't want to buy the product: "the blinking text obscured what I was trying to read", for instance. In other words, instead of complaining on Slashdot, complain to someone who can actually do something about it.

    *sigh* I have to wonder why this is such a hard concept...

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