Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 23:02:03 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Larry Sica <lomion@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: handwriting and tablets Message-ID: <a06001202bae1c70e813c@[10.0.1.2]> In-Reply-To: <147EFD66-8255-11D7-871E-000393A335A2@mac.com> References: <147EFD66-8255-11D7-871E-000393A335A2@mac.com>
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At 3:33 PM -0400 2003/05/09, Larry Sica wrote:
> That is a shame. The newtons were great, very ahead of their time in
> many respects.
Indeed, Apple defined the business.
> I wonder if apple would ever pursue this again...
> an iPad?
Nope. They've already ruled that out. The iPod is starting to
take on more PDA functions, but I think they're always going to make
a point of intentionally keeping out of that market.
> Is it really that bad? What are the specs on these machines anyway?
> I saw one in an airport it looked oogly
I think the fastest I've seen is an 800MHz Mobile Pentium-III,
which just isn't enough to do jack squat with Windows XP, which was
intentionally designed to soak up as much CPU power as possible on a
3GHz Pentium IV, and is just dead-dog slow on anything that is not
the absolute fastest generation of machines currently available.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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