[LinuxUsers] Cool Netbook

[Manny]

Lol...  My first impression, WTF!!!!

Lets just use velcro, safer around computer equipment ;-)

Thanks for the video Chris!

--Manny

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Chris Penn <cantormath at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hilariously Ghetto features of this notebook:
> First you see this "coolest" feature...
> http://www.youtube.com/user/gregoiregentil#play/all/uploads-all/2/aZm6qM0KPpg
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> Then you see how it works:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0ufymAvjDM&feature=player_profilepage
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> On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Chris Penn <cantormath at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The website says that the TB has Youtube and daily motion support.
>> Looking in their IRC channel,  people say there is not flash support
>> with the TB since there's no public-available flash player for arm.
>> Currently firefox sends the video in youtube to mplayer.
>>
>> The machine is still very interesting.  It uses a customized
>> Beagleboard (http://beagleboard.org).  Some of these customization
>> include some solution for ethernet, and more USB ports.  The downside
>> in this customization is that the standard beagleboard has DVI out and
>> the TB does not.  Compared to the price of a beagleboard,  the TB
>> seems well priced.
>>
>> Chris...
>>
>>
>> Another thing I learned about these machines
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Dante Lanznaster <dantecl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 1:46 AM, Chris Penn <cantormath at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Things I do not like:
>>>> -no multi touch screen.
>>>> -There is no stylus(which is not the issue) , and there does not seem
>>>> to be any demos of them writing notes using a stylus.  This leads me
>>>> to believe that writing on that screen might not work well.  This may
>>>> not be an issue.
>>>> -Java is currently supported but it's not yet integrated into the
>>>> browser(not a huge deal, but still a deal.  Their wiki says they are
>>>> working on this).
>>>> -From their website:
>>>> "Moreover, we will offer the choice of operating systems backed by
>>>> partners, which are heavily invested on the hardware platform the
>>>> Touch Book is based on."
>>>> Not sure what that means, that could be shady.
>>>
>>> I don't know how it is with ARM processors, but if usability is comparable
>>> to PowerPC, then there's 2 things that kill the web experience: Flash
>>> and Java. Gnash can be used, but it's in such an alpha stage that
>>> even youtube fails to display properly.
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