Ipad mini priced at $329 so as to avoid gutting sales of Ipad 3. Another in a string of Apple blunders. Customers will defect to Nexus 7 at $100 less or Kindle Fire also at $100 less and offering the Amazon marketplace. It's now safe to say that Apple will be looking at a minority share of the tablet market from here on in.
Apple is a morally bankrupt organization. The day it became apparent to all was the day they had their San Jose police friends break down the front door of a journalist. Apple disgusts me. Any further questions?
I have to admit, your hunt and pecking is very impressive. The correct calculation for words per minute is characters_per_second * 12, if you want to work it out precisely. The record on a computer keyboard is something like 290 WPM, or an astounding 24 chars/sec.
The procedure for getting an arbitrary linux distro to run on the original cr48 was a lot of fun. You had to take the laptop halfway apart, flip a "hay let me flash my BIOS" switch, which would allow you to flash a user-provided BIOS image from the internet...
That alone is enough reason why this misbegotten product should just die.
Oh, please do. Because you're talking out your ass. Nobody types 76 wpm with two fingers. That's 6.3 characters a second. Whoops, looks like you moved the decimal point there.
Actually, it does mean something. It has a defined meaning, from Apple, presented at the keynote based on a formula relating distance, human visual acuity and the spacing between pixels on the display.
Actually, the formula has more to do with the distance between the customer's wallet and Apple's bank account.
The fact remains that, moderate typing speed discrepancy aside...
Sorry, no, it's not a moderate typing speed discrepancy, it's a massive discrepancy, a factor of 3 at best and more like 10 in practice. Plus, typing on a touchscreen is an ergonomic horror. If you do it hours over a long period of time, bad things are going to happen to your eyes, hands and skeleton.
The only possible way a tablet can displace a PC for typing intensive applications is with an actual keyboard.
And given the same Watt-sucking screen as any other netbook, you'll see at most a 10% improvement in battery life.
Where did you get that number, out of your ass? Try some actual data.
MSI Winpad 100, 10.1" display, 5 hours battery life. Samsung Galaxy Tab, 10.1" display, Android, quad core, 10 hours battery life. Looks like Intel chipsets suck a lot more than you thought.
No need for anti-malware... it runs a super-locked down variant of Linux.
Car analogy time. Fill a sedan up to the windows with concrete and nobody will be able to steal it. You also won't be able to drive it to the store to buy groceries but nobody will be able to steal it.
How is this different from any generic netbook that comes out around the same price range (with a x86 processor may I add)?
Power-efficient ARM setup with modest sized SSD and crippled OS. Just needs a proper Linux install to make a cheap and useful geek trophy. Subsized by Google, what's not to like about that. I wonder if it requires prorietary modules or firmware.
And I wonder how long Google will continue beating this dead horse.
The whole "Do everything in the cloud" idea was tried a decade ago and it bombed then and it'll bomb even worse now.
I wouldn't try to take that to the bank if I were you. In 2002 Gmail didn't even exist. Today, for massive herds of private individuals it is the only email they know. And corporate adoption is going exponential. And Gmail is far from the only player in that space.
If you wanted to make a case for "the cloud won't completely kill the PC" I'll buy that, but from where I sit, the day where more email as sent through cloud interfaces than PC clients is probably already here.
Tablets VS PC... daddy will use the PC, Mommy and the kids will use the tablet. Daddy would use the tablet somewhat too, except the kids always have it. Time to get a couple more tablets. No, the tablet won't kill the PC, it will just end its reign as the predominant form of computer.
Sorry if you're suffering a little future shock today. I should also mention that land lines will soon be something that only old people have.
Is that a case of a noob comparing ubuntu with debian stable again?
Far from it. OK, feel free to go ahead and demonstrate your leet skillz by making a live USB boot stick with Sid. Let me know when you've got your QA done.
My recent experience installing Ubuntu from a live USB stick was good. It's true, I can't stand Unity, but I just boot to it once then install kubuntu-desktop right away. This was on a brand new Ivy bridge machine, and everything just worked, including sound, 3D acceleration (of the lame itegrated 6 core GPU) and suspend. As opposed to the Debian live boot, which did not manage to bring up eth0. I love Debian and I use it on servers but this time Ubuntu solved my problem and Debian was just lagging too far behind.
I have whined about Ubuntu in the past, and it does have its warts, but the bottom line is, it's a damn slick package and that's not even considering the price: free.
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Further, what exactly would you sue him for?
Breach of fiduciary duty. Or in other words, acting against the interest of shareholders by selling Nokia down the river to Microsoft.
Ipad mini priced at $329 so as to avoid gutting sales of Ipad 3. Another in a string of Apple blunders. Customers will defect to Nexus 7 at $100 less or Kindle Fire also at $100 less and offering the Amazon marketplace. It's now safe to say that Apple will be looking at a minority share of the tablet market from here on in.
Apple is a morally bankrupt organization. The day it became apparent to all was the day they had their San Jose police friends break down the front door of a journalist. Apple disgusts me. Any further questions?
Apple genuinely believes Android infringed...
Apple does not genuinely believe anything except that it must defend its margins by fair means or foul.
You forgot "fire Elop and sue his ass off".
I think you just grossly underestimated how many Googlers it takes to run a fringe project.
And by the way, the ChromeOS project at Google isn't fringe. Yet.
I have to admit, your hunt and pecking is very impressive. The correct calculation for words per minute is characters_per_second * 12, if you want to work it out precisely. The record on a computer keyboard is something like 290 WPM, or an astounding 24 chars/sec.
The procedure for getting an arbitrary linux distro to run on the original cr48 was a lot of fun. You had to take the laptop halfway apart, flip a "hay let me flash my BIOS" switch, which would allow you to flash a user-provided BIOS image from the internet...
That alone is enough reason why this misbegotten product should just die.
Oh, please do. Because you're talking out your ass. Nobody types 76 wpm with two fingers. That's 6.3 characters a second. Whoops, looks like you moved the decimal point there.
Actually, it does mean something. It has a defined meaning, from Apple, presented at the keynote based on a formula relating distance, human visual acuity and the spacing between pixels on the display.
Actually, the formula has more to do with the distance between the customer's wallet and Apple's bank account.
'Retina Display' is just one of Apple's bullshit marketing terms.
Oh no way, it's totally different, you just don't get it. And soon Apple will introduce its revolutionary Eustachion Tube speakers[tm].
I can tap out emails and the like at a reasonable rate - I'd estimate something like 50ish words per minute.
Wow, that's amazing, incredible. Could you please prove it by posting a video on Youtube?
The fact remains that, moderate typing speed discrepancy aside...
Sorry, no, it's not a moderate typing speed discrepancy, it's a massive discrepancy, a factor of 3 at best and more like 10 in practice. Plus, typing on a touchscreen is an ergonomic horror. If you do it hours over a long period of time, bad things are going to happen to your eyes, hands and skeleton.
The only possible way a tablet can displace a PC for typing intensive applications is with an actual keyboard.
Increasingly we have a workforce that simply needs to connect to a database, do email.
... and has $250 to waste on a device that is a brick without a net connection, purely because of crippled software. Good luck with that.
Google crippleware. I wonder who thought it was a good idea to tarnish the branch like that.
You're right, it should be "patent roach".
they only have to sell a few thousand to get their development costs back
Did you just grossly underestimate how much the care and feeding of a department full of Googlers and associated hangers on actually costs?
And given the same Watt-sucking screen as any other netbook, you'll see at most a 10% improvement in battery life.
Where did you get that number, out of your ass? Try some actual data.
MSI Winpad 100, 10.1" display, 5 hours battery life. Samsung Galaxy Tab, 10.1" display, Android, quad core, 10 hours battery life. Looks like Intel chipsets suck a lot more than you thought.
Increasingly we have a workforce that simply needs to connect to a database, do email.
... and has $250 to waste on a device that is a brick without a net connection, purely because of crippled software. Good luck with that.
No need for anti-malware... it runs a super-locked down variant of Linux.
Car analogy time. Fill a sedan up to the windows with concrete and nobody will be able to steal it. You also won't be able to drive it to the store to buy groceries but nobody will be able to steal it.
How is this different from any generic netbook that comes out around the same price range (with a x86 processor may I add)?
Power-efficient ARM setup with modest sized SSD and crippled OS. Just needs a proper Linux install to make a cheap and useful geek trophy. Subsized by Google, what's not to like about that. I wonder if it requires prorietary modules or firmware.
And I wonder how long Google will continue beating this dead horse.
The whole "Do everything in the cloud" idea was tried a decade ago and it bombed then and it'll bomb even worse now.
I wouldn't try to take that to the bank if I were you. In 2002 Gmail didn't even exist. Today, for massive herds of private individuals it is the only email they know. And corporate adoption is going exponential. And Gmail is far from the only player in that space.
If you wanted to make a case for "the cloud won't completely kill the PC" I'll buy that, but from where I sit, the day where more email as sent through cloud interfaces than PC clients is probably already here.
Tablets VS PC... daddy will use the PC, Mommy and the kids will use the tablet. Daddy would use the tablet somewhat too, except the kids always have it. Time to get a couple more tablets. No, the tablet won't kill the PC, it will just end its reign as the predominant form of computer.
Sorry if you're suffering a little future shock today. I should also mention that land lines will soon be something that only old people have.
I wonder who modded this +1 interesting, informative when it really deserves -1, melts.
Is that a case of a noob comparing ubuntu with debian stable again?
Far from it. OK, feel free to go ahead and demonstrate your leet skillz by making a live USB boot stick with Sid. Let me know when you've got your QA done.
My recent experience installing Ubuntu from a live USB stick was good. It's true, I can't stand Unity, but I just boot to it once then install kubuntu-desktop right away. This was on a brand new Ivy bridge machine, and everything just worked, including sound, 3D acceleration (of the lame itegrated 6 core GPU) and suspend. As opposed to the Debian live boot, which did not manage to bring up eth0. I love Debian and I use it on servers but this time Ubuntu solved my problem and Debian was just lagging too far behind.
I have whined about Ubuntu in the past, and it does have its warts, but the bottom line is, it's a damn slick package and that's not even considering the price: free.
Typing on a tablet sucks unless you have a physical keyboard (which drives the price quite a bit higher)
Oh yeah, 25 bucks higher.
That's gotta hurt.