FlipStart to Replace Your Laptop?

WED Fan writes "Paul Allen has a new hardware venture, smaller than a laptop, larger than a blackberry. According to the Seattle P-I, the vision is to replace the laptop for most everyday use, such as office applications, email, and web surfing. 'Really, FlipStart gives you everything that your laptop does [...] We're not promoting the idea that you would do CAD design on it, but for Office applications and most of what people do with their laptops, it's great.' But at a $2000 price tag, this could be a little bit out of the range of many users. The product will launch on FlipStart.com in the not to distant future."

Comments

Re:The Sub-Notebook returns!

[ArsonSmith]

It's from Microsoft and you're surprised?

Re:Apple will kill this device

[Reality Master 101]

With the direction they're going with the iPhone, you know it's only a matter of time before Apple whips that technology into something with a 5"-7" display in a far more attractive package with superior software.

What direction with the iPhone? This is a REAL PC, that can run any software you want. The iPhone is a locked-down, "keep your filthy hands out of our l33t device" phone that only runs software that Steve wants you to run (all the while lying about the reasons it's locked down). Not to mention that you "vill take Cingular, and you vill like it". And let's not even talk about the first time you drop and scratch that screen (I wonder if it's replaceable? HA, sorry, sometimes I crack myself up)

The iPhone has some slick features, but Apple's steel-toed boot policies make it hard justify spending the money for it.