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New Tablet PCs With A Linux Option

Posted by timothy on from the chocolate-meet-peanut-butter dept.

Oliver Wendell Jones writes "InfoWorld is running an article about a new kind of inexpensive (starting under $800) tablet PC that runs your choice of Windows 2000, Windows XP or the Lindows distro of Linux. The PC is called the DocuNote and features an 8.4" touch screen with digital camera and microphone. The PCs are being created by a company called StepUp, which is formed of a lot of people from the old eMachines organization. DocuNotes are scheduled to start shipping in mid-December."

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  1. Slashdot does it again by Ctrl-Z · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    I'm amazed. Last week, Microsoft demonstrates a tablet PC running Windows. Slashdot was unimpressed, and the only things that were mentioned were how the demonstration didn't go off without a hitch.

    Now, these guys are making a tablet PC which will run with Windows or (of all things) Lindows. And people on Slashdot start doing things like celebrating, and talking about how great tablet PCs are.

    I still think that tablets are a waste of money. Too big to be a handheld, too underpowered to be a PC, and too expensive for either market.

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  2. i haf a tablut by Drooling+Retard · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    its calld ech-a-sketch an i draw pikshurs of bunny rabbits and kittys and puppes and things. it only cost 14.99 not 800 bucks so i think that tablut in the storee is to much munee.

    haff to go, i pood myself

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    i ware a diper cuz i poo myself
  3. "switch" by Thud457 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is that what all those "switch" adds are about?!!

    Does Jerry Falwell know?
    BR Pity, those chix were kind of hot n' trashy.

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