Cheap Linux Tablets, And (Maybe) An Apple Tablet

penguinrenegade writes "Element Computer has come out with the first sub-$1000 Tablet, and it doesn't come with Windows. It's not running a stripped OS like Windows CE, but a full-fledged copy of Lycoris Desktop/LX. This company seems to really have it in for Microsoft, with a 'No Windows' policy. Good to see someone finally standing up against paying the Microsoft tax. Maybe now we'll start seeing Linux only OEMs and resellers." Also on the tablet computer front, SeanAhern points out Cringely's latest Robert X. Cringely column, in which Cringley makes the case that Apple is readying a tablet computer for market, and "suggests that 'until next year, the parts won't have been there to make tablet PCs successful. What's missing has been the killer app, and what kept a killer app from appearing was a lack of hardware support, which I believe will be over soon,'" writing "He's got some interesting ideas about where Jobs might go with his Digital Hub idea." (This is an Antaur-based machine, not the Toshiba tablet mentioned in October.)

Comments

Some Operating Systems are very good!

[L.Torvalds]

But Linux isn't.

Just a large palm pilot

[Anonymous Coward]

Yea...a really expensive palm pilot by Apple :)

Re:Fastest Slashdotting ever?

[Rick the Red]

Probably per day. I had no idea /. had that many subscribers!

Re:i have the flu

[soft_guy]

No you don't. Quit lying - you feel great.

Re:Robert X. Cringely

[Anonymous Coward]

He blows Taco?

Re:i have the flu

[Anonymous Coward]

I can mek you feal hole agayn!

perhaps slashdot acumen will once again rule

[Anonymous Coward]

Based on this post: http://homepage.mac.com/danbirchall/iblog/C5324992 /index.html full of stupid fucking morons blabbering about how poorly the iPod will fare, I expect the long mouthshit of slashbot commentary to 1)be viciously anti-Apple and 2)totally fucking wrong.

Suck my fat fucking cock, slashdot

Re:perhaps slashdot acumen will once again rule

[Anonymous Coward]

Corr.: I wrongly claimed having a "fat fucking cock".

True is: neither is my sexual organ fat, nor has it ever been fucking.

I am sorry to be such a failure.

Have a good night, I must go molest a mole.

ahhh!

[Anonymous Coward]

screw you all ...
thanks to slashdot I can't get to the website..!

Re:Fastest Slashdotting ever?

[Anonymous Coward]

yes teh homoseksual comunity is vary bigg now!

Yes

[Anonymous Coward]

and you and you league of extraordinary gay retards will probably feel the irresistable urge to express your anal expulsive opinions about it from the day it hits the market...

If that's how they handle this case...

[spoco2]

If that's how they handle the case of a high number of people at their website... in this very ugly manner... imagine how they handle other extreme cases with their hardware/software... Not confidence inspiring really.

Re:Apple != Tablet

[Anonymous Coward]

Like Apples ENTIRE market isn't a niche market. When you're lumped into the bottom 4% of all OS's sold, you're a niche market.

Prototype Pics!

[beetle496]

Apple tablet prototype pics here and there! But the best idea is the detachable touch screen that merely lifts off the iMac (the dome base serving as the brains and charging cradle). For completeness, there is also the Cintiq ($3500, and a tether to boot) and the AirBoard (Japanese Flash, sorry, it's the best I could do).