I agree. The problem with the Windows interface is that it was *not* designed for a small screen, and pens. The PalmOS was. So is the Newton OS (which is bloody great, pity the machines were so bulky).
Palm-top computing is a strange thing. Most people just want to be able to do addresses and schedules, and have thse synced with their desktop. So therefore, colour would be superfluous, and a waste of battery life.
On the other hand a good section of customers want colours, advanced features like mpeg audio playback (Use your palm as a walkman? heh) and photo capture (aka digital camera). I think the key is making the Palm OS as flexible as possible, so that when people propose building these pieces of hardware, they can be built and the code will be able to do it.
-I- certainly would like to be able to walk into a meeting, take a photo of someone, write their address in beside their mugshot, send them an email of the notes I took down in the meeting, then walk out with my Palm Pilot in my pocket listening to NiN. I probably dont want to watch movies on it though.:)
I'm not an expert on this, but I would have liked to have seen the test results on more modest hardware, such as a single processor Pentium II machine. (Not Xeon)
Everyone that I have ever talked to in the community say the SMP support in linux isnt crash hot yet.
Have you seen the new IBM Thinkpads? They're nice. Light. Fast. And they seem to work with linux. Mmmmm. Also, IBM is a little more open bout these types of things.
Shame on you Toshiba, you should know better. Go back to making televisions:)
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I agree. The problem with the Windows interface is that it was *not* designed for a small screen, and pens. The PalmOS was. So is the Newton OS (which is bloody great, pity the machines were so bulky).
Palm-top computing is a strange thing. Most people just want to be able to do addresses and schedules, and have thse synced with their desktop. So therefore, colour would be superfluous, and a waste of battery life.
:)
On the other hand a good section of customers want colours, advanced features like mpeg audio playback (Use your palm as a walkman? heh) and photo capture (aka digital camera). I think the key is making the Palm OS as flexible as possible, so that when people propose building these pieces of hardware, they can be built and the code will be able to do it.
-I- certainly would like to be able to walk into a meeting, take a photo of someone, write their address in beside their mugshot, send them an email of the notes I took down in the meeting, then walk out with my Palm Pilot in my pocket listening to NiN. I probably dont want to watch movies on it though.
I cant wait to see how this technology evolves.
I'm not an expert on this, but I would have liked to have seen the test results on more modest hardware, such as a single processor Pentium II machine. (Not Xeon)
Everyone that I have ever talked to in the community say the SMP support in linux isnt crash hot yet.
I used to think Toshiba's were the best.
:)
Now, I'm not so sure.
Have you seen the new IBM Thinkpads? They're nice. Light. Fast. And they seem to work with linux. Mmmmm. Also, IBM is a little more open bout these types of things.
Shame on you Toshiba, you should know better. Go back to making televisions
Actually, I'd be surprised if this is true. Sounds like a lot of pants to me.