"nemesis" <nam### [at] nospamgmailcom> wrote in message 
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> Tim Cook wrote:
>> Ah, they had one of those at the local Best Buy.  Sure, it's cute, but 
>> it's too tiny to type on!  Crazy high resolution for such a small screen 
>> though.
>
> If I was to buy one of these, I would type with a pen. :)
>
> On the downside, I'd feel lost without keyboard shortcuts in text 
> editors... :(

Yes, typing is a pain...  Moreso, because Home, PgUp, PgDn, End., are only 
accessible via the "fn" (function) key, which essentially means that you can 
generally forget about using home and end, and just arrow up, down, left, 
right...  It seems like they could have used some of the space beside the 
touch pad to add a few more keys.

Aside from that, I still love it.  It's just not a machine that you really 
want to use to type a lot of emails, or program on.  How can you program 
without pgup and pgdn being easily accessible?  But again, if you really 
wanted to do that stuff, you could always hook it up to a real keyboard, 
mouse, monitor, but presumably, you'd have a "real" computer to do that 
with.

I feel it's more of an extension to an existing network of computers, which 
can be used for "light duty" work.  It's nice to be able to play poker 
(online) while sitting in the living room with my family, rather than 
retiring to the basement to play for the evening.  Likewise, I can remotely 
control my desktop to re-run a POV-Ray render with a couple minor changes, 
without having to run up and down the stairs every 15-30 minutes to check 
progress.  Maybe I could even do both at once.  ;-)

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