Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:06:56 -0800 (PST) From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: re: Flipstart
I'm looking forward to touchtyping on the that tiny keyboard:). Seriously, it, at least looks well spaced and if the key tension is correct a person should be able to. What I don't like about is its another windows machine and the company who built it doesn't plan on supporting other operating systems. So while its attractive from a micro appliance stand point, ethically I shouldn't even consider it since it perpitrates monopoly and reduces innovation and freedom of thought in the technological arena. Vulcans saving grace is a rumor going around that they tested it on open source operating systems which worked fine on it and they are releasing a sdk for it. Its that appliance mentality applied incorrectly to machine intelligence in the belief it'll improve data base searches which is bringing down the field of computer science into the relm of base rote and keeping machine intelligence at the beastial level--> basically something to operate a file system and nothing more. The amazing thing is the tiny little thing has 512MB and a 1 GHz!!! Its like super powered in the palm of your hand and there's no reason on this planet it can't pretty much talk to you when you turn it on. 5 GIGS is plain HUGE for a DOS. john ------------------- >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Feb 29 04:22:24 2008 Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:35:00 -0800 From: Nick L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Libretto <libretto@basiclink.com> To: Libretto <libretto@basiclink.com> Subject: Re: [LIB] flipstart Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:34:48 +0000 From: "Nick L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] flipstart I must admit I've been sorely tempted by this lump of kit myself, however the keyboard rather puts me off... Can you put a review up when you do get it? :-) Cheers, Nick. On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 3:33 AM, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:32:10 -0800 (PST) > From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: flipstart > > Vapourware has become reality at a pretty reasonable > price. > > http://www.flipstart.com > > Perfect power and size. Can't wait to get mine. Wonder > how well it'll run beos. > > john > >
