"Video games may not be the best choice to do it with"
Wii sports could be replaced by like, actual, sports. 1st person shooters could be replaced by paint-ball. Donkey Kong is based on a real-life love story.:)
I see a niche market. Many find smartphones too limiting for web browsing and their fingers too fat for onscreen keyboards. Others find a cramped 10" netbook keyboard unappealing; if the size is right but the keyboard is daft, dispense with it altogether!
Slates, sans keyboard, can go places netbooks can't: lecture theatres, coffee-shop couches and buses. Even for their size, IMO netbooks are still bad etiquette on public transport - elbows during typing are irritating to people either side and should a train stop suddenly one's stooped posture is likely to land one's head in someone's lap!
While the nettop market is probably dead in the water, convergence with a slate could be popular with the student market. By day, a mobile notepad with a 3G connection (or wifi for on-campus). By night, plug it into your HDTV via HDMI and instant desktop machine via USB hub/bluetooth.
In Apple's favour, they've had Newton's handwriting engine maturing like a fine wine for a decade and a mobile CPU/GPU finally powerful enough to exploit it.
Hence ARM invented ThumbEE?
If and when the LLVM JIT targets ThumbEE, hey presto, the performance problem disappears. e.g. using Redhat's shark implementation of Hotspot.
I'm putting mine in the clothes washer you see...
I did this once.:( The phone was clean but never worked again.
Luckily the SIM card still worked when I purchased a new, unlocked, phone.
Apple's rumored iSlate, an iPhone with ports for keyboard and monitor, may work for some but the hassle of carrying around a keyboard/monitor won't be easier than carrying around a netbook
Supposing this product actually exists and it's a genuine 'slate', with a stylus, and not just an iPhone with a bigger on-screen keyboard, Apple would be looking to define a new market segment. i.e. replacing the A4 notepad and ink.
Who said anything about carrying around a keyboard and monitor? If you want to then edit your hand-scribed lecture notes in a standard computer environment, plug your iSlate into your HDTV and use your bluetooth keyboard and mouse.
The market segment isn't writers who want to type tomes on the go at Starbucks but rather those who wants to surf the web from one of said coffee shop's comfy lounge chairs.
Yes, it's puzzling but perhaps these 11-12" screens really are somehow considerably costlier than their 15" counterparts? i.e. a 12" 'notebook' will cost, say, $200 more than the 15" ones you mentioned. Either that, or there's collusion in pricing, which consumer price regulators haven't yet investigated.
12" is fine, at 1280x800, after a day or two of use. But then I don't use all 10 fingers and don't miss a numeric keypad.
The keys are the same size as my old 15". The difference being that my pinky fingers used to rest on the plastic siding - now they float in mid air. I have no adjustment problems going back to a 'desktop' PS/2 or USB keyboard.
By constrast, we have 10.4" tablets at work, whose keys are much more cramped.
What it means for the ultra-portable market, I'm not sure. I noticed my 15 month old 12.1" Core 2 Duo as been superseded by a 13.3" model. Perhaps 'business users' want big screens but I like the 11.6"-12.1" for factor - If I need to plug into at a desk, I just need decent internal graphics and an external 1080p/i display.
So unless these 11.6" netbooks dump the atom and go with a quad-core ARM cortex, I'll stick with my current model for a few more years...
Because machine instructions spat out by a C compiler are optimised for each particular CPU. Writing a 'compiler' to translate binary x86 to ARM would be far less efficient than compiling source code for each platform due to the architectural differences between the platforms.
That's just life... Phones are generally less powerful than desktop machines that they often seem constrained running native software let alone running someone else's binaries.
Yeah, the 2048x600 resolution seems a bit limiting. Looking at the photo, good for side-by-side spreadsheets?
Rotating these screens to portrait, you'd get dual 600x1024 = 1200x1024. There's your vertical pixels back! Can't someone manufacture a laptop these days that isn't widescreen?
How about preventing 'questionable components' from being present in the fuel in the first place?
Would using 'biodiesel' in place of regular diesel achieve the same effect without so many toxins? In this way, they could grow crops to produce the fuel and then plough the exhaust back into the same soil.
Meh, that's only a problem if you're running Intel which, in turn, probably means you've had Windows foisted upon you.
Nvidia will still be around producing 'integrated' solutions; I for one welcome our new quad-core Tegra overlords (due out sometime this coming decade!) - perfect for a netbook/nettop and hopefully powerful enough by *today's* standards to capture some of the traditional desktop market in the guise of greener, low emission technology.
A computer that boots Windows on x86 but runs ARM Linux too?
What if one could use both at the same time?
i.e. kind of like coLinux but using a distinct CPU for each environment. A number of IT professionals feel hamstrung by using Windows but have corporate dependencies. One can run apps in wine, access a shell via cygwin or use virtualization. This might provide another alternative. i.e. the full power of Linux but the ability to run Office and test web applications in IE. The ability to run a linux server and Windows desktop on the same machine. A phone developer that can emulate an ARM phone using the ARM CPU (no CPU translation required)
When your wife gets to 7.5 months, take a 6 week vacation. You get to see some different fauna be it kangaroos, llamas or wildebeest. The baby is born during summer and has an exotic location on its birth certificate.
Nvidia debuts it's Tegra 650 SoC later this year. We'll hopefully then see the fallacy of expensive 'components necessary to drive the larger displays'.
Who needs 1080p on a netbook? Simple answer, you can stream 1080p content to your TV via HDMI.
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"Video games may not be the best choice to do it with"
Wii sports could be replaced by like, actual, sports. 1st person shooters could be replaced by paint-ball. Donkey Kong is based on a real-life love story. :)
I have a basic phone with a slide out 12-key numeric keypad, you insensitive clod!
I'd like the author to benchmark 1-digit typing (i.e. thumb). Are the speeds for texting *that* much faster with a fancy shmancy onscreen keyboard?
I see a niche market. Many find smartphones too limiting for web browsing and their fingers too fat for onscreen keyboards. Others find a cramped 10" netbook keyboard unappealing; if the size is right but the keyboard is daft, dispense with it altogether!
Slates, sans keyboard, can go places netbooks can't: lecture theatres, coffee-shop couches and buses. Even for their size, IMO netbooks are still bad etiquette on public transport - elbows during typing are irritating to people either side and should a train stop suddenly one's stooped posture is likely to land one's head in someone's lap!
While the nettop market is probably dead in the water, convergence with a slate could be popular with the student market. By day, a mobile notepad with a 3G connection (or wifi for on-campus). By night, plug it into your HDTV via HDMI and instant desktop machine via USB hub/bluetooth.
In Apple's favour, they've had Newton's handwriting engine maturing like a fine wine for a decade and a mobile CPU/GPU finally powerful enough to exploit it.
The upfront cost would be hidden by the 3G plan.
Hence ARM invented ThumbEE?
If and when the LLVM JIT targets ThumbEE, hey presto, the performance problem disappears. e.g. using Redhat's shark implementation of Hotspot.
I'm putting mine in the clothes washer you see... :( The phone was clean but never worked again.
I did this once.
Luckily the SIM card still worked when I purchased a new, unlocked, phone.
If nvidia were to use the same driver model as for their other GPUs, the community could continue writing their own drivers via nouveau.
Supposing this product actually exists and it's a genuine 'slate', with a stylus, and not just an iPhone with a bigger on-screen keyboard, Apple would be looking to define a new market segment. i.e. replacing the A4 notepad and ink.
Who said anything about carrying around a keyboard and monitor? If you want to then edit your hand-scribed lecture notes in a standard computer environment, plug your iSlate into your HDTV and use your bluetooth keyboard and mouse.
The market segment isn't writers who want to type tomes on the go at Starbucks but rather those who wants to surf the web from one of said coffee shop's comfy lounge chairs.
Yes, it's puzzling but perhaps these 11-12" screens really are somehow considerably costlier than their 15" counterparts? i.e. a 12" 'notebook' will cost, say, $200 more than the 15" ones you mentioned. Either that, or there's collusion in pricing, which consumer price regulators haven't yet investigated.
Well it's an interesting thought experiment to imagine a quad-core Nvidia Tegra powering a 'smartbook'... But yes such beasts don't exist yet. :)
Still the best bet for fanboy liberation this month is Apple's big 'iNewton' announcement on January 26.
12" is fine, at 1280x800, after a day or two of use. But then I don't use all 10 fingers and don't miss a numeric keypad.
The keys are the same size as my old 15". The difference being that my pinky fingers used to rest on the plastic siding - now they float in mid air. I have no adjustment problems going back to a 'desktop' PS/2 or USB keyboard.
By constrast, we have 10.4" tablets at work, whose keys are much more cramped.
'netbook' has evolved to mean 'Atom powered'.
What it means for the ultra-portable market, I'm not sure. I noticed my 15 month old 12.1" Core 2 Duo as been superseded by a 13.3" model. Perhaps 'business users' want big screens but I like the 11.6"-12.1" for factor - If I need to plug into at a desk, I just need decent internal graphics and an external 1080p/i display.
So unless these 11.6" netbooks dump the atom and go with a quad-core ARM cortex, I'll stick with my current model for a few more years...
Flood the Grand Canyon?
Because machine instructions spat out by a C compiler are optimised for each particular CPU. Writing a 'compiler' to translate binary x86 to ARM would be far less efficient than compiling source code for each platform due to the architectural differences between the platforms.
That's just life... Phones are generally less powerful than desktop machines that they often seem constrained running native software let alone running someone else's binaries.
Compiling from source, yes. But that's not 'virtualization'. AOT translation of x86 machine code to ARM, no.
I'm not following what binary-only x86 software you'd want to run on a phone. ARM linux distros already exist, e.g. Nokia's maemo.
No, virtualization != emulation. The performance overhead of binary translation from x86 to ARM would throttle your phone.
Instead one could run ARM linux applications on an ARM phone.
Yeah, the 2048x600 resolution seems a bit limiting. Looking at the photo, good for side-by-side spreadsheets?
Rotating these screens to portrait, you'd get dual 600x1024 = 1200x1024. There's your vertical pixels back! Can't someone manufacture a laptop these days that isn't widescreen?
While Moonlight might be a layer on top of Mono, perhaps Wine could provide the Win32-specific COM integration required here for 100% compatibility?
Poo is a village in Spain. I passed through their train station several years back, on the way to Oviedo.
They were pressured into "Castilianizing" the name (no double 'o') perhaps because some gringo tourist found it offensive!
I'd prefer a slower, cheaper CPU
:)
Wait, there are actually CPUs out there with worse performance per $ than the Atom ???
How about preventing 'questionable components' from being present in the fuel in the first place?
Would using 'biodiesel' in place of regular diesel achieve the same effect without so many toxins? In this way, they could grow crops to produce the fuel and then plough the exhaust back into the same soil.
Meh, that's only a problem if you're running Intel which, in turn, probably means you've had Windows foisted upon you.
Nvidia will still be around producing 'integrated' solutions; I for one welcome our new quad-core Tegra overlords (due out sometime this coming decade!) - perfect for a netbook/nettop and hopefully powerful enough by *today's* standards to capture some of the traditional desktop market in the guise of greener, low emission technology.
A computer that boots Windows on x86 but runs ARM Linux too?
What if one could use both at the same time?
i.e. kind of like coLinux but using a distinct CPU for each environment. A number of IT professionals feel hamstrung by using Windows but have corporate dependencies. One can run apps in wine, access a shell via cygwin or use virtualization. This might provide another alternative. i.e. the full power of Linux but the ability to run Office and test web applications in IE. The ability to run a linux server and Windows desktop on the same machine. A phone developer that can emulate an ARM phone using the ARM CPU (no CPU translation required)
When your wife gets to 7.5 months, take a 6 week vacation. You get to see some different fauna be it kangaroos, llamas or wildebeest. The baby is born during summer and has an exotic location on its birth certificate.
Problem solved!
Except that Clojure is NOT a dialect of Common Lisp. I wouldn't give someone an 'intro to Java' book if they wanted to learn C#.
Why not read a book specifically tailored to Clojure?
Nvidia debuts it's Tegra 650 SoC later this year. We'll hopefully then see the fallacy of expensive 'components necessary to drive the larger displays'.
Who needs 1080p on a netbook? Simple answer, you can stream 1080p content to your TV via HDMI.