I ordered two today. A friend ordered two also. I checked it out at circuit city, it looks sharp. 1.48A @ 19V. Could possibly power it in your car... have some mapping software on it and an mp3 player. In any case, after hearing the sales guy chuckle when I asked if the service subscription was mandatory, I let him admit that Netpliance knew exactly what was going on. He mentioned that it was an organic process... that the/. effect really hit home, and that certain patches of areas were ordering more than others. Another chuckle came out when he was taking down my address and informed me that the engineers at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana were snatching them up like mad, along with some research park in Raleigh, NC. While processing my order, we made smalltalk and he mentioned that they were IPO'ing within the week and I asked if they were worried about all the recent developments. He said that despite the fact that "the engineers and executives have been up for 2 days straight," presumably working on a technical or marketing "fix" most likely, the PR people were going to sell it as a positive thing. Don't know how they'll put that one off though. Later he comically asked me what I was going to use it for and we discussed the logistics of installing it in the car. At least they have a sense of humor about this situation. Hope the execs have better luck with their next startup...
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I ordered two today. A friend ordered two also. I checked it out at circuit city, it looks sharp. 1.48A @ 19V. Could possibly power it in your car... have some mapping software on it and an mp3 player. In any case, after hearing the sales guy chuckle when I asked if the service subscription was mandatory, I let him admit that Netpliance knew exactly what was going on. He mentioned that it was an organic process... that the /. effect really hit home, and that certain patches of areas were ordering more than others. Another chuckle came out when he was taking down my address and informed me that the engineers at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana were snatching them up like mad, along with some research park in Raleigh, NC. While processing my order, we made smalltalk and he mentioned that they were IPO'ing within the week and I asked if they were worried about all the recent developments. He said that despite the fact that "the engineers and executives have been up for 2 days straight," presumably working on a technical or marketing "fix" most likely, the PR people were going to sell it as a positive thing. Don't know how they'll put that one off though. Later he comically asked me what I was going to use it for and we discussed the logistics of installing it in the car. At least they have a sense of humor about this situation. Hope the execs have better luck with their next startup...