From: Mac User (jerry7171_at_sio.midco.net)
Date: Thu Apr 17 2003 - 21:56:04 PDT
I just received my MP 130 yesterday and it already has generated quite
a bit of attention at my workplace from both co-workers and guests.
I had a Handspring Visor that recently bit the dust, and I had toyed
with the idea of buying a Newton for a long time, but hemmed and hawed
till recently after joining this group.
I'm still an extreme neophyte with the Newton, but I have some of the
basics down.
People at work love the larger screen, and the cool handwriting
recognition. I hand it over to them to play with and I tell them about
some of the things the Newton can do, and when they want to know more
about it, I get a kick out of telling them its over 7 years old,
discontinued and was the basis for much of what Palm eventually came
out with. I always get a kick out of their surprised looks.
I'm looking forward to learning more about my MP 130 and putting it
through its paces.
Jerry Fisher
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We all may be laying in the gutter, but some of us are looking up at
the stars.
Oscar Wilde
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On Thursday, Apr 17, 2003, at 12:49 US/Central, Dylan Stewart wrote:
> Well, when I got mine, people mostly wondered how I could carry it
> around
> with me. They ridiculed it and me for buying it. Of course, then
> TabletPCs
> were announced and they all wanted them. I laughed as I told them
> that I
> had one and that they had been making fun of it for months. They, of
> course, tried to rationalize it by saying that my Newton wasn't a
> tablet,
> but they couldn't back it up at all. It was pretty funny.
>
> Now people see it and ask me what kind of computer it is. I tell them
> that
> it's a mini-tablet and let them play with it for a while. Invariably,
> they
> ask how much it costs and I tell them well, five years ago, it cost
> about
> $1000, but now they go for about $100 on eBay pretty regularly.
>
>
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