FlipStart to Replace Your Laptop? 249
WED Fan writes "Paul Allen has a new hardware venture, smaller than a laptop, larger than a blackberry. According to the Seattle P-I, the vision is to replace the laptop for most everyday use, such as office applications, email, and web surfing. 'Really, FlipStart gives you everything that your laptop does [...] We're not promoting the idea that you would do CAD design on it, but for Office applications and most of what people do with their laptops, it's great.' But at a $2000 price tag, this could be a little bit out of the range of many users. The product will launch on FlipStart.com in the not to distant future."
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Vaporware since 2004 (Score:5, Informative)
I'll believe it when woot has it on sale...
I loved my sub-notebook for some things (Score:5, Informative)
Sucky things: If it is too big to fit in your pocket you have to hand lug it and the size is not a huge benefit over a regular laptop. Screen is really too small, even for word processing etc.
Re:The Sub-Notebook returns! (Score:3, Informative)
Paul Allen hasn't been with MS for decades.
Re:The Sub-Notebook returns! (Score:4, Informative)
Re:The Sub-Notebook returns! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:The Sub-Notebook returns! (Score:3, Informative)
http://www0.epinions.com/pr-Fujitsu_LifeBook_P103
Re:The Sub-Notebook returns! (Score:2, Informative)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-Mobile_PC [wikipedia.org] (code name "origami")
Nokia 9300 (Score:3, Informative)
It fits in the pocket and can do pretty much everything a laptop can do. The really massive benefit though isn't readily apparent. That is, you always have all your data with you.
Re:Get an OQO instead (Score:4, Informative)