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OQO Price And Release Date Set
captainJam writes "After more than 2 years of development, the OQO is finally set to be released in October for a price tag of $1899. Initially the unit will only be sold through OQO's website. Those grumbling about the price should take into consideration that the OQO is by far the smallest and lightest XP capable handtop with a touchscreen, slide-out keyboard and Transflective display."
YES. According to early reports it should be able to run anything that has been ported to a Transmeta processor. Like, oh, Linux.
According to this article, an OQO VP says the unit "will run whatever OS would run on a PC, so yeah, Linux should run just fine."
From http://www.oqo.com/hardware/specs/:
The Wikipedia article needs some serious work. Calling all knowledgeable nerds.
I see you've never actually tried running Linux on a real slate-style tablet. I have.
/., but the current Linux handwriting recognition (Xscribble being the best I've seen) software just doesn't compare in accuracy or ease of use. xvkbd fills some of the gaps, but you aren't going to write essays with it.
XP Tablet Edition is much, much better than Linux if you're actually trying to be productive with the thing. I know that's a minor heresy to admit on
If you want to run Linux for Free software reasons on it, I can respect that. But, really, Linux simply isn't there yet on tablets. It's a bitch to set up, and you'll be cursing at the handwriting recognition the whole time.
Trust me, as crappy as XP is, it's the right choice for one of those.
-Erwos
Plausible conjecture should not be misrepresented as proof positive.
then you could like the flybook.
higher specs, more 'innovative', 3g, looks nicer to use.. and it's cheaper.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Hello All. Here is a nice web site that discusses the new class of portable computers ultra pcs : http://ultraportables.net/ or http://u-pcs.com/
Well, looking at the word "transflective" I can only guess that it's a mixture of "reflective" and "transmissive", meaning that it relfects some light in order to illuminate the display, but has a backlight to boost the output.
As far as I understand, all transflective screens have backlights.
How else would you see them in the dark?
The difference is that when used outside a transflective screen doesn't compete with the sun and uses natural light to illuminate the display. So the backlight isn't needed in bright light, but is in low light.