* [9fans] omap3 notebook @ 2010-03-12 5:17 ron minnich 2010-03-12 18:18 ` Ethan Grammatikidis 2010-03-14 10:17 ` Harri Haataja 0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: ron minnich @ 2010-03-12 5:17 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/home/ $400 but it has a long backlog it seems. ron ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] omap3 notebook 2010-03-12 5:17 [9fans] omap3 notebook ron minnich @ 2010-03-12 18:18 ` Ethan Grammatikidis 2010-03-12 21:30 ` David Leimbach 2010-03-14 10:17 ` Harri Haataja 1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Ethan Grammatikidis @ 2010-03-12 18:18 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs On 12 Mar 2010, at 05:17, ron minnich wrote: > http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/home/ > > $400 but it has a long backlog it seems. > > ron > Very nice looking little thing and the internal USB is a great idea. I almost got to saying "I want one," but I started comparing it to my Zaurus which was about that price some years ago. For my purposes the Touch Book has half again the clock speed and double the battery life of my old Z, plus a nicer screen and keyboard. The latter two aren't worth it not fitting in my pocket, although I'm sure they will be to others. The Touch Book also has 8 times the RAM my Zaurus has, but what would you use 512MB for in a Plan 9 terminal-like device? I feel a bit bad about running it down because I think the company shows a lovely attitude in trying to support as many Linux distros as they can, but the 512MB just says to me, "this was made for the wonderful Technologies of XML and object oriented design." ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] omap3 notebook 2010-03-12 18:18 ` Ethan Grammatikidis @ 2010-03-12 21:30 ` David Leimbach 0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: David Leimbach @ 2010-03-12 21:30 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1205 bytes --] Yeah the touchbook,it can run some ported iPhone applications it seems too interestingly. Dave On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>wrote: > > On 12 Mar 2010, at 05:17, ron minnich wrote: > > http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/home/ >> >> $400 but it has a long backlog it seems. >> >> ron >> >> > Very nice looking little thing and the internal USB is a great idea. I > almost got to saying "I want one," but I started comparing it to my Zaurus > which was about that price some years ago. For my purposes the Touch Book > has half again the clock speed and double the battery life of my old Z, plus > a nicer screen and keyboard. The latter two aren't worth it not fitting in > my pocket, although I'm sure they will be to others. The Touch Book also has > 8 times the RAM my Zaurus has, but what would you use 512MB for in a Plan 9 > terminal-like device? > > I feel a bit bad about running it down because I think the company shows a > lovely attitude in trying to support as many Linux distros as they can, but > the 512MB just says to me, "this was made for the wonderful Technologies of > XML and object oriented design." > > [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 1714 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] omap3 notebook 2010-03-12 5:17 [9fans] omap3 notebook ron minnich 2010-03-12 18:18 ` Ethan Grammatikidis @ 2010-03-14 10:17 ` Harri Haataja 2010-03-14 10:22 ` Richard Miller 1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Harri Haataja @ 2010-03-14 10:17 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs On 12 March 2010 07:17, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote: > http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/home/ > $400 but it has a long backlog it seems. There's also the Nokia's NIT devices if you're looking for pocketable. Might be a relatively hostile environment for anything but Maemo, though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Tablet -- I appear to be temporarily using gmail's horrible interface. I apologise for any failure in my part in trying to make it do the right thing with post formatting. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] omap3 notebook 2010-03-14 10:17 ` Harri Haataja @ 2010-03-14 10:22 ` Richard Miller 2010-03-16 18:24 ` Ethan Grammatikidis 0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Richard Miller @ 2010-03-14 10:22 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans > There's also the Nokia's NIT devices if you're looking for pocketable. > Might be a relatively hostile environment for anything but Maemo, > though. Hosted inferno works well on these. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] omap3 notebook 2010-03-14 10:22 ` Richard Miller @ 2010-03-16 18:24 ` Ethan Grammatikidis 0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Ethan Grammatikidis @ 2010-03-16 18:24 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs On 14 Mar 2010, at 10:22, Richard Miller wrote: >> There's also the Nokia's NIT devices if you're looking for >> pocketable. >> Might be a relatively hostile environment for anything but Maemo, >> though. > > Hosted inferno works well on these. That's good to know. It may be my best choice for my Zaurus too. -- Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. -- Alan Perlis ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
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