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By: 64NOMIS

64NOMIS — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:50:49 +0000

Neuromancer,

Hello friend. Yes, I actually went to a bookstore today (about all I had the energy for) and man, images in print are amazing. Samurai Warrior artwork. The Thor comics from Marvell. Mountain biking landscapes. Woodworking how-to. Easy to casually glide through a dozen of them. An afternoon at B&N is like surfing print and its a pretty good experience. Random access is nice but you know I ditched my CD changer. So I am a bit conflicted; I want for the tech to come through, to be that good, better than print with touch of finger access.

To your first point, you’ve got companies trying to create closed content loops. Then you’ve got everyone else in China & Taiwan, and they are getting smart, fast. So I think you are going to have your choice from elegant but closed to functional but open. The weight will shift but I think all will be served.

Typing on small devices advantages the young. This (the small device interaction problem) gets resolved a long time from now. But that’s another blog.

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By: Neuromancer

Neuromancer — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:57:14 +0000

I 100% agree and do not like the current movements in the computer industry that many of the larger corps are making. Smaller computers are not on my agenda if it sacrifices speed, power or most importantly for me, the ability to use whatever hardware I can acquire in my price range.

For laptops that has always been a kicker for me, and so far it has been cheaper and easier to just have a PC at home and a PC at work and handle file swaps (or remotely access) work files from home. For certain jobs I can imagine that a laptop is an essential tool, but as a 6′ tall 200+ pound guy, a laptop is neither large enough nor durable enough to handle my day to day activities.

Tablets have always intriqued me, in the same way that touch screen monitors have, but within 5 minutes of using one, I unpluged it and moved to a much cheaper, better looking and most importantly larger screen with a higher resolution.

I am obviously not in the norm here, mobile devices to me are are a loathe/hate relationship. Lets make a cell phone smaller than a pack of cigarettes and spend all of our time trying to TYPE on it!?!? Lets build a portable PC platform that cant even play youtube videos until almost a year after it launches.

I am sure that architecturely this device is wonderous and the ipod/iphone touch based OS is great compared to what we get on PC/MAC computers.

As for the paperback book comments. Nothing is better than reading a book, and I doubt I will see in my lifetime any tech based replacement for it.