I've always been under the impression that the NanoNote was nothing more
than a toy. I use mine for a bit of programming (yeah, I've even done
some serious stuff on it), but I mainly use it for taking notes and
impressing people with the smallest Debian laptop.
Yeah, getting more stuff to work on it would be cool, and it'll
doubtlessly happen, but let's not start trying to make it /useful/ just
yet, because I fear that if we do, we'll end up with another palmtop
like any other. All I want, right now, is a bigger screen and a touchpad
(or similar device), so that I can run TWM on it without having to use
my VAIO as a terminal.
Mark.
On 04/03/11 19:41, Jane Andreas wrote:
Just thought I would offer some reflections and comments on what I
hope the next Nano is. First of all, my approach since 2007 when I
searched for the HP Jornada has been to migrate almost completely to a
mobile platform. The more the next nanonote lets me not use my laptop,
the better. The 2 main things that would do this on the hardware side
are USB Host and wifi. with a good browser, I would seriously almost
abandon my laptop. On the software side, I need things that let me be
creative without being heavy. The main things we are lacking now are
(as I see it and for my particular needs):
image/photo editor (cropping, resizing, adding text, other basic
functions) my thinking is, that if on-board camera interfaces can do
it, why not the Nano?
music tuner (preferably one that displays exact frequency of input)
graphics creation program for something other than ascii art
some way of writing and synthesizing midi files
So basically as odd as it sounds, I strive for a laptop-replacement
media studio in my pocket type of device. It does take compromise, but
nowhere could it work more than with Free hardware AND software. I
think it is almost feasible on the Ben, so for sure on the Ya
one thing I could not abide is if the cpu on Ya were to gererate any
heat making unit warm. I would say it is always easy to want more and
if we jump to a 700 mhz cpu, we will not have optimized efficiently
our MIPS one. Also, if we add parts that take more cpu, the potential
of higher clock speed is spent on just controlling those things.
I will stop rambling now and leave you with food for thought. Thanks
for listening
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