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Hawt or Nawt?

Posted by Doc007 on Monday, September 28, 2009 - 07:36 PM

A "concept" notepad device from MS. Think of it as maybe like the Surface but for netbooks I guess? Concept is kind of neat, but is there any on screen keyboard options or is it all hand writing? Looks like it would be a good ebook reader too.

What the crap? Now there's a MS phone? Are they turning into a hardware company now?

Hawt or Nawt?

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Re: Hawt or Nawt? (Score: 1)
by Mobius (mobius-at-meta-earth.com)on Sep 29, 2009 - 08:25 PM
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Nawt.

Talk about vaporware... sheesh. They don't even have mockup model. Same with the phone. M$ is just trying to compete with Apple. They should just leave well enough alone and stop embarrassing themselves all the time (like as they have with the Windows 7 House Party ads).

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Re: Hawt or Nawt? (Score: 1)
by Ratchetcat on Sep 30, 2009 - 02:21 AM
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I'm leaning toward "Hawt", myself. Sure, sure, it's a concept (and therefore vaporware), but it's a concept which shows some thought about how someone might use the device -- and thus something over which people can have discussions or use as a guide to actual implementation.

Thanks for the post.

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Re: Hawt or Nawt? (Score: 1)
by Doc007 (jay@SpamMeNow.com)on Sep 30, 2009 - 12:05 PM
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Did MS Surface start out as vapor ware or did they reveal it with a working prototype? Sort of seems like they actually had video of people using it.

It does seem well thought out with what it does and how it all interacts. It's a lot smaller than I got the impression from just the rendering. I was thinking full 9x12 or something like a note pad thing like this would be sized. It's more like 8" tall or something, which isn't bad. I was thinking with the other size that it would be hard to hold with one hand to use the camera.

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