caryl wrote: > > Hi Martin, > Thanks for the correction! I was confused. Whatever the name, > this new hybrid of laptop and tablet will be a giant leap forward > in educational computers. I had the opportunity to see and play > with Bert F's touchscreen XO-1.75 at our SCaLE booth this winter. > While the screen will be entirely different (and superior) the > combo idea is the same. Wonderful!
to be clear, it won't be _that_ different from what you played with. the technology has changed, but you'll still be moving the cursor by poking a finger at the screen of something that's shaped identically to the other, uh, 2.5 million XO laptops in the world. :-) paul > Caryl > > > From: [email protected] > > Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:47:14 -0400 > > Subject: Re: [IAEP] Names for new XO-3 > > To: [email protected] > > CC: [email protected]; [email protected] > > > > Hi Caryl, > > > > just to clarify -- the unit is XO-4. Two variants will be available -- > > XO-4 Laptop and XO-4 Touch (a laptop with multitouch screen). > > > > The XO-4 Laptop is in general terms externally similar to XO-1.75, but > > gruntier guts. XO-4 Touch adds multitouch, so the frame changes a bit. > > > > cheers, > > > > > > martin > > > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Caryl Bigenho <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > OK... crazy idea time... since the new XO-3 will actually be a hybrid of > > > laptop and tablet, maybe it should have a new device name to distinguish > > > it > > > from others that are merely one or the other. Here are a couple of ideas > > > for > > > device names that hit me this morning: > > > LapLet > > > TabTop > > > Anyone else have an idea to share? > > > Caryl > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > > > > > > -- > > [email protected] > > [email protected] -- Software Architect - OLPC > > - ask interesting questions > > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > part 2 text/plain > 150 > _______________________________________________ > support-gang mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang =--------------------- paul fox, [email protected] _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
