[LinuxUsers] Cool Netbook

[Joel Brauer]

Hey, if you aren't risking data loss, you're not innovating on the wild
side!

Joel Brauer

Only you can decide to be happy!  The rest of life is in the details...

There are no 'shoulds', only choices and consequences.


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
>
> Then you see how it works:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0ufymAvjDM&feature=player_profilepage
>
>
>
>
> 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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> >  -Roger Penrose
> >
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