05-04-2009, 06:43 PM | #31 | |
Join Date: Aug 2004
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I must say, I looked at the 900 model, but the 20€ difference made the extra hard drive, and specially the longer battery time (901 has a bigger batery AND a low power CPU) too good to let pass. Also, I'm going to use it at the university, and 4 GB would be far too little, even with a sensate OS like Linux (though I have zero experience with Xandros, being a Debian man myself) |
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05-05-2009, 12:07 PM | #32 | |
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Canada
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I had a lovely old Tablet PC but it finally bit the dust and I can't afford a new one. I'm waiting to see what Asus does with Tablets, I may end up getting Yet Another New Netbook in the next year or two if someone makes a stripped down tablet available. So far - I'm quite pleased with it. I prefer the slate/tablet interface for reading, but it's light enough for me to hold in one hand, small enough to balance on my knee while taking the bus or to balance on my CAT while I'm reading on the couch, and it almost fits in my purse (I'm now looking for a slightly bigger purse).
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05-05-2009, 05:52 PM | #33 | |
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I haven't ruled out "upgrading" the machine itself - with the regular price drops, there are already far better deals (full 900 with 1GB of ram and the 20GB SSD for about what I paid for my chopped down model), but for now my machine is good enough. |
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05-06-2009, 09:45 AM | #34 | |
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It looks pretty good to me. http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/l...-event-in-nyc/
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05-06-2009, 09:59 AM | #35 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Vermont
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Amazon's just posted their Kindle DX for pre-order: 9.7 inch high resolution screen, reads PDFs naively, and supports some other formats, 4GB internal storage. Includes web browser.
Down sides: It not available yet and really expensive (US$489) plus cell phone charges. I also saw a story where a kindle user annoyed Amazon enough for them to cancel the user's account. Which rendered his kindle into a expensive brick. One of the few times I've seen a something and said "Ok, I want that..."
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05-06-2009, 12:18 PM | #37 | |
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05-06-2009, 12:37 PM | #38 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Vermont
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The older Kindle's it is. See article here. Amazon controls all the books you buy through them, plus manages your subscriptions. If Amazon cancels your account (for any reason they see fit), you no longer have access to you Amazon books or subscriptions. Which, for the older Kindles, was the only content you could have. The newer one with the PDF support, probably not so much.
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05-06-2009, 02:10 PM | #39 |
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That Kindle is getting closer to the kind of eReader I am looking for. Even though it has been said a thousand time, 500 USD is more that I want to pay for it right now. I am getting more hopeful though, especially once color shows up.
And right now the new Kindle is beating the pants off the Plastic Logic eReader, for the simple reason that the Kindle is actually a product you can buy, not just s picture on a website that promises it is coming "soon." |
05-06-2009, 05:24 PM | #40 | |
Join Date: Jun 2005
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