Palm Foleo Revealed

So, this must be the iPhone ripoff everyone said was coming

Wow. That's......boring.

yg17 said:

So, this must be the iPhone ripoff everyone said was coming

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Copying Apple is the only way to innovate.

And Apple's stock reaches toward $118 on the news...

Nothing impressive, as far as I can tell.

So Palm decides to keep relying on its now ancient Treo form factor.... by supplementing it with a laptop?

Wow is right ... a subnotebook.

Dell, eat your heart out ... or something. *yawn*

Too Big and Too Small!

Too big to lug around, might as well move on up to a 12" laptop

Where do you put your ear up to it to call mum?

Don't be so harsh.

I would have loved it 7 years ago.

oscuh said:

Wow is right ... a subnotebook.

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No it's not, it's an extension of a smartphone/PDA. Big difference.

I can't run Ableton Live on that.

Wow. How pathetic. It's a small laptop, except it does less than a laptop.

It really seems like Apple is the only company left that knows what the hell they're doing.

EDIT: What the hell?

"Future iteration of the device will allow e-mail over Wi-Fi."

Oh, brilliant.

Seriously though, who would want to carry around something like this? The price isn't that bad but it's quite crippled compared to a regular subnotebook.

Check out the bezel on that thing. YUCK!!!

Neat-O, I say, especially considering the price. As a writer, I can see a definite use for this. As a photographer (the other half of my business), though, I almost always have my laptop to deal with photos on the go, negating the need for a Folio.

It's a step in the right direction. I can see Palm getting into the UMPC market now, which makes me very happy.

a friggin' crippled laptop?

That was pretty weak...

13 Days until WWDC. Apple could release a 300 lb laptop at this point and I would be more impressed than this thing.

How many gadgets are we expected to carry?

When I travel I bring:

Laptop
cell phone
iPOD
and Bose Headphones

Why would anyone want to add another laptop to the mix. Why is this on Macrumors?

NewSc2 said:

Seriously though, who would want to carry around something like this? The price isn't that bad but it's quite crippled compared to a regular subnotebook.

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It's also $1000 cheaper than a subnotebook.

Didn't we hear a rumor about a small subnotebook by Apple with no DVD drive?

emotion said:

No it's not, it's an extension of a smartphone/PDA.

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People will use it as a laptop ... it can run independently from what I understand ...

And my comment as a whole was meant to be sarcastic, btw.

If only it could have a smaller bezel and have Mac OS X on it.

oscuh said:

People will use it as a laptop ... it can run independently from what I understand ...

And my comment as a whole was meant to be sarcastic, btw.

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Sorry, harshed out there for a moment. First reaction for me is disappointment.


Hmmm. It's cheap but I can't see a market for this really.

Man that is ugly, about as ugly as the John Mccain video on the website, since when did technology shows become invloved in the Iraq war? Very odd, but sadly the new Palm product looks like a toy laptop almost reminds me of the Apple eMate but that was a much better product way back when.

donlphi said:

Apple could release a 300 lb laptop at this point and I would be more impressed than this thing.

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At least Palm tried

MacbookSwitcher said:

It's also $1000 cheaper than a subnotebook.

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If I were still in college, this would be the best note taking device ever. Cheap, light, small. A regular notebook can get quite heavy if you're lugging it between classes all day long.