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."
So... replace a $1000 laptop with a $2000 device? (Score:5, Interesting)
Fuck the NoteBook, Transform the DS. (Score:4, Interesting)
nokia n800 (Score:3, Interesting)
The genius of the n800 I think is that it is not a laptop and not a pda. It is its own class of device, with a UI designed specificly for its small high resolution screen, touch screen, and set of buttons.
I am still waiting for a computer that looks like a small book, but where the screen itself folds in half, to become a tablet with a reasonable screen size. Apple dreamed of such a device called the Knowledge Navigator years ago in the following video, and I hope display and voice recognition technology will make this something real within the next 5 years.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3WdS4TscWH8 [youtube.com]
Doomed by the iPhone? (Score:2, Interesting)
I have a feeling the iPhone will be able to do all this gizmo does, at a fraction of the weight and cost, a bit slower perhaps, but at 10x the [babe version of yor choice]-magnet factor.
I'm not trying to plug iPhones, but what kind of cool stuff has Vulcan lately, versus Apple? (Besides spiffing up downtown Seattle.)
Re:So... replace a $1000 laptop with a $2000 devic (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Get an OQO instead (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:The Sub-Notebook returns! (Score:2, Interesting)
It was, and its category of computers still is, very successful in Japan. Over here, size does matter. Very much so.