From: Robert Benschop (rbenschop_at_telebyte.nl)
Date: Fri Oct 15 2004 - 15:06:17 PDT
On 15-okt-04, at 22:31, LAG wrote:
> I DO so wish that you macaddicts would give things a chance based on
> things other than the os.
Hear, hear. Even I, an ardent Mac Evangelist, am growing really tired
of the amount of Windows bashing on the list lately.
Please, let's discuss relevant stuff on this list...
That still doesn't alter my view that the OQO is an unusable glorified
Libretto. ;-)
(thanks Emmanuel)
Desktop OS's, be it Windows, Mac OS, Linux or whatever are conceived to
be exactly that, desktop OS's.
They tend to suck in a major if you try to use them like you use the
Newton.
Just reading Davis Pogue's comment about the fact that you need a
magnifying glass to even use it, to me this completely disqualifies it
as a serious machine.
This fact combined with the price is enough to not even consider it.
As a hardware extension it looks nice (much better than the Libretto)
but apart from that: no battery life (I'm assuming that the 2.5 hours
is very flattered)
and the need to take a powered firewire drive with you...
Ah well, I rest my case.
But of course I'm very curious about actual user input about the
device...
Robert Benschop
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