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Axon Logic Debuts $750 Mac OS X-Capable Tablet

Look, it's the iPad all the haters wanted! It has USB ports, ethernet, video out, etc. How many are going to buy?
 
ValSalva said:
Other than the Atom processor which has a bad rap, isn't this the device everyone wanted Apple to release in January?
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I wasn't. I was certainly expecting something more...revolutionary than the iPad, but I certainly hadn't hoped to see something like this.

ValSalva said:
You can't say that something like this is just a big iPod Touch. It's a real computer compared to the iPad.
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You're right - it's a real crummy computer with a real crummy screen that you try to control with your finger. Should be a big hit!

Where do we line up for this?
 
Pretty sweet idea... I just don't know how a NON-APPLE device will work out for us Apple Product users...

and for those who have no idea what a resistive touchscreen panel is (such as miyself):

"A resistive touchscreen panel is composed of several layers, the most important of which are two thin, metallic, electrically conductive layers separated by a narrow gap. When an object, such as a finger, presses down on a point on the panel's outer surface the two metallic layers become connected at that point: the panel then behaves as a pair of voltage dividers with connected outputs. This causes a change in the electrical current, which is registered as a touch event and sent to the controller for processing."
 
ellsworth said:
Pretty sweet idea... I just don't know how a NON-APPLE device will work out for us Apple Product users...
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You mean those of us who use ViewSonic monitors, MacAlly keyboards, Kensington mice, OWC RAM, and, in other words, everything non-Apple we can lay our hands on? (Going back, we had a Motorola clone).

I wouldn't buy this particular device but I'd probably spring for a Mac compatible netbook at some point.
 
If it had a better touchscreen, and I'd imagine a later model will, I'd buy it. The iPad is very not for me because of its limitations.
 
This is cool! Concerned out the performance ( speed ) though. As long as this gives 4 or 5 hours battery - that is good IMO.
 
allpar said:
You mean those of us who use ViewSonic monitors, MacAlly keyboards, Kensington mice, OWC RAM, and, in other words, everything non-Apple we can lay our hands on? (Going back, we had a Motorola clone).

I wouldn't buy this particular device but I'd probably spring for a Mac compatible netbook at some point.
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Exactly... the quality of each of those brands are sub'par to Apples... and you know it.
 
Hooray! Now OS X users can enjoy the same sucktastic "regular UI shoehorned into a touch device" that Windows tablet users have had for years!
 
OMG it's so beautiful...

And by beautiful I mean I have to wash my eyes with Clorox Liquid-Plumr now.
 
Portable computing gets more interesting all the time. Not that I would personally by the thing, but it's a good option for the overkill crowd on the run.

Another 4 years and the mobile stuff will be banging.
 
darkplanets said:
While I'm all for competition...

1) It's ugly.

2) I'm sure its battery sucks.

3) 1.6GHz Atom. That's going to make OSX or Win7 well, terrible.

4) Mechanical hard drive? Sounds wonderful...

5) Resistive touch screens are terrible.

6) Touch w/ OSX. Ha.

Sorry, better luck next time.
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7)$750 for a knock-off netbook/ipad...

8)and from some unknown company?!?


I'd much rather buy a $750 PC Notebook any day (which can do everything and more that this can...and better!) or if I really need touchscreen I would contemplate an iPad.

Not sure who they are going to convince to buy this...certainly not techies...certainly not Apple fanboys...certainly not the average consumer.

-Eric
 
Thats awesome, the 1.6GHZ Atom isn't actually too bad, it can actually run Windows XP fairly well, and I'm sure OSX or Ubuntu will run really well on this.. the only thing that bothers me is the price..
 
chris200x9 said:
Really? I'm pretty sure EVERYTHING worked with my acer aspire 5740G-6979 out of the box using iboot, then I gave up and wiped it because I realized linux > mac.
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Really. iBoot was probably the tool you used to circumvent Apple's copy protection.
 
LagunaSol said:
I wasn't. I was certainly expecting something more...revolutionary than the iPad, but I certainly hadn't hoped to see something like this.


You're right - it's a real crummy computer with a real crummy screen that you try to control with your finger. Should be a big hit!

Where do we line up for this?
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I should clarify. This is the direction most wanted the iPad to go in. Sure, the execution of this device is almost certainly far, far short of what Apple would ever release. But the iPad is a hobbled internet appliance. It's not a tablet computer.
 
ValSalva said:
It's not a tablet computer.
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It is.

Computer

an electronic device for storing and processing data, typically in binary form, according to instructions given to it in a variable program.

Tablet

a flat slab of stone, clay, or wood, used esp. for an inscription.
• a writing pad..
 
ValSalva said:
I should clarify. This is the direction most wanted the iPad to go in. Sure, the execution of this device is almost certainly far, far short of what Apple would ever release. But the iPad is a hobbled internet appliance. It's not a tablet computer.
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It's more tablet computer than this thing.
 
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