actually bought a Clio new -
absolutely astonishingly good form factor;
astoundingly bad OS:
quickly stopped using it -
WinCE was such an apt name!
still have it, as i read somewhere it could be loaded with Linux,
tho i never found any instructions, and have no time to hack blindly,
merely hoping for hardware support...
On 25. Jul., 2009, at 16:14 PM, Steven Scotten wrote:
> Fantasy land: Does anyone remember the Vadem Clio? I thought that was
> the perfect fusion of tablet computing and what has now been called
> netbooks. The operating system of course left something to be desired,
> but I've often wondered why no one has revisited that form factor.
>
> (for those that don't remember the Clio, it was a Windows CE device
> with a 8" wide 6" tall screen that swiveled on a pivot arm that
> connected to the sides of the screen so that the device could be used
> as a tablet with the keyboard stowed behind the screen, or as a laptop
> with the keyboard positioned below the screen. It had the Paragraph
> HWR system and a stylus.)
>
> For whatever faults the Clio had, the design was terrificly versatile
> and blew away the idea that tablet computing meant throwing away the
> keyboard (which is a very strange notion that people seem to hang on
> to.)
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