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The problem is...
I like Linux, I really do, but it seems that this product is not really very useful now.

No hand writting recognition? While many have complained about Windows XP Tablet PC Edition's handwritting recognition (from the models I've tested it work great for me) not being very good, it at least was in there.

End user Linux products (something that you take out of the boc and use without having to recompile the OS) still have two major problems:

1) They exist only somebody garage. Case in point, MythTV, which looks like a really nice media convergance shell for Linux. Problem, you have to build it, and it's not easy.

2) A promising product like this one, a tablet form factor, comes already well behind what's already available. Yes, the Linux product is cheaper, but still behind the state of the art. So a person or company that going to invest in this technology and really needs it and willing to pay for it, isn't going the Linux route.

When will a Linux non-server product come out that really pushes the envelope, by having ease of use and features that excel beyond what's available commercially?

Otherwise, Linux is just going to the platform that's cheaper, but with no value add.
Posted by: Heatlesssun   Posted on: 12/01/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Well, this should open the viable tablet market  FilledOut | 12/01/03
Oh No! Uncle Billy!...  GRindinAxTaRupy | 12/01/03
Competition IS good!  chrichton99 | 12/01/03
Following the Leader  ShadeTree | 12/01/03
RE: Copetition IS good!  JakAttak | 12/01/03
Price gouge?  d_jedi | 12/01/03
It's about time!  rdwhitti | 12/01/03
Been to the web site?  Jose Jimenez | 12/01/03
Battery Life  Michael Kelly | 12/01/03
You tell me  AbsolutelyNot | 12/01/03
1 Ghz. VIA CPU. You got to be kidding.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/01/03
Let them drive Cadillacs?!?  Robert Crocker | 12/01/03
Definatly.  vdraken | 12/01/03
You missed what I said.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/01/03
Poor Bitty  Rick_K | 12/01/03
GEO? vs Cadillac? Try Tank vs station wagon  Sady | 12/04/03
That's the going speed for tablets  Michael Kelly | 12/01/03
You have a problem with competition?  B.O.F.H. | 12/01/03
You read me wrong...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/01/03
Do you understand the difference between hardware and software?  B.O.F.H. | 12/01/03
Sure we does  forozco@... | 02/13/04
RE: 1 Ghz. VIA CPU. You got to be kidding.  JakAttak | 12/01/03
Inkwell...  Rick_K | 12/01/03
But wait...I thought competition was a good thing?...  GRindinAxTaRupy | 12/01/03
umm.  d_jedi | 12/01/03
no proof?  frgough@... | 12/01/03
I see proof  LazLong | 12/01/03
But which is the GEO and which is the Cadillac ???  Plain Logic | 12/01/03
Power consumption an price are more important here.  DonnieBoy | 12/01/03
Don't think so...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/01/03
If that's true  Jose Jimenez | 12/01/03
99% ....you mean Mozilla  LazLong | 12/01/03
There will be open source hand writing recognition.  DonnieBoy | 12/02/03
The problem is...  Heatlesssun | 12/01/03
If that's the one and only shortcoming....  Jose Jimenez | 12/01/03
I'm not pointing to just one example  Heatlesssun | 12/01/03
Missed the point  Jose Jimenez | 12/01/03
But that is the point....  Heatlesssun | 12/01/03
No, they didn't.  Jose Jimenez | 12/01/03
99% of MS Products....  Rick_K | 12/01/03
Homemade burger or McDonalds  LazLong | 12/01/03
If it was MS  MalumRegnat | 12/01/03
Oh, Really  Jose Jimenez | 12/01/03
That's always been the problem with Linux.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/01/03
Yeah, right _AXE_  Jose Jimenez | 12/01/03
Do you mean like DNS/BIND?  B.O.F.H. | 12/01/03
There is opinion  IT_User | 12/01/03
Wrong again Bitty  Rick_K | 12/01/03
TIVO? (nt)  ryusen | 12/01/03
It is not a problem....but a solution  LazLong | 12/01/03
Just tried to but one of these things and this is what happened!  Heatlesssun | 12/01/03
It's back!  Heatlesssun | 12/01/03
Down Again!  rdwhitti | 12/01/03
Nope..  d_jedi | 12/01/03
Why?  Jose Jimenez | 12/01/03
/. ed?  ryusen | 12/01/03
Yo-yo  Yagotta B. Kidding | 12/01/03
1Ghz Via CPU  richman555 | 12/01/03
All depends on your needs.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/01/03
Where do you get this load............  Jose Jimenez | 12/01/03
He's rather myopic  LazLong | 12/01/03
More "I hate competition" comments.....  Rick_K | 12/01/03
Huh?  escoles@... | 12/02/03
If site still down heres google cache & Prostar/Sager links  LazLong | 12/01/03
Sorry about the above  LazLong | 12/01/03
Same hardware available with Windows?...  Robert Carnegie | 12/05/03
Competition is good  FilledOut | 12/03/03

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