Re: [NTLK] More MacPad Rumors

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Ryan Vetter<physicalconstants@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Same thing for me and tablets.  I have searched long and hard and there is nothing, I mean nothing, worthy of spending your money on.
>
Lots of people have slapped OSX on to these things, and there is the
one sanctioned Hackintablet out there, based on a 13" MacBook. Have
you looked at or considered any of these?

And I'l reiterate my objection to a tablet--too big. The 2K series
Newton would have been perfect, had it been much thinner, and the body
the dimensions of the screen, or a little more. For a tablet, I
believe that's about the outside edge--say, A5 or half-letter size.
Anything larger, and where do you put the dumb thing? In fact, even at
that size, you have a huge holster. This is the greatest weakness of
tablets. I would rather have a Pre, iPhone, iPod Touch or Nokia N8X0
series than any larger tablet. I'm a boring person, so I doubt I'm
unique. ;-) Nothing screams "geek" louder than a tablet, IMO. Apple
doesn't do "geek" they do "cool". No tablet from Apple, that's still
my take on it.

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 -Jon Glass
Krakow, Poland
<jonglass@usa.net>
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