Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 15:33:15 -0400 From: Larry Sica <lomion@mac.com> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: handwriting and tablets Message-ID: <147EFD66-8255-11D7-871E-000393A335A2@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <a06001201bae1812c50cd@[10.0.1.2]>
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On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 12:18 PM, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 1:14 PM +0100 2003/05/09, Paul Robinson wrote: > >> Microsoft are less than two months from winning this one. Their >> concept of >> liquid ink and their handwriting recognition has now got so good, >> it's got >> to the point where it's almost better than paper for some tasks... I >> think >> this is one for a whole new development effort in itself, and >> unfortunately >> I suepct X will suck at it. This might be the door through which MS >> enters >> the top level corporate sector and slams it shut in everybody else's >> face. > > Speaking as someone that has used a Newton 130 and a Newton 2100, and > seen my wife struggling with Windows XP on her new tablet PC, I can > safely say that I don't think Microsoft will ever get to the point > where handwriting recognition is useable on these machines. > That is a shame. The newtons were great, very ahead of their time in many respects. I wonder if apple would ever pursue this again... an iPad? heh > They stripped out so much from the hardware and replaced them with > things like winmodems, software NICs, etc... and now they've way > underpowered the machine to make it sufficiently portable that it no > longer has the ability to do much of anything useful, even when you're > just trying to use the keyboard. > Is it really that bad? What are the specs on these machines anyway? I saw one in an airport it looked oogly --Larry
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