handwriting and tablets

[Brad Knowles]

At 3:33 PM -0400 2003/05/09, Larry Sica wrote:

>  That is a shame.  The newtons were great, very ahead of their time in
>  many respects.

	Indeed, Apple defined the business.

>                  I wonder if apple would ever pursue this again...
>  an iPad?

	Nope.  They've already ruled that out.  The iPod is starting to 
take on more PDA functions, but I think they're always going to make 
a point of intentionally keeping out of that market.

>  Is it really that bad?  What are the specs on these machines anyway?
>  I saw one in an airport it looked oogly

	I think the fastest I've seen is an 800MHz Mobile Pentium-III, 
which just isn't enough to do jack squat with Windows XP, which was 
intentionally designed to soak up as much CPU power as possible on a 
3GHz Pentium IV, and is just dead-dog slow on anything that is not 
the absolute fastest generation of machines currently available.

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