>>>>>>>>When I said, "wow, Chiefs won, Oregon Ducks won, and today ain't even my birthday"....I was wrong, it IS my birthday.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Just like the Monopoly card says, "Life insurance matures, collect $500", I got an unexpected windfall this evening.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>So I'll be able to buy an iPad, without needing to stick a crowbar in my wallet.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>I cannot believe I'm buying an Apple product. After looking at so many products with the idea, "I want it to do what the iPad does", I finally realized I should just buy the freakin' iPad.
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>>>>>>>I thought you'd be one to be saying, "I want it to do MORE than what the iPad does". I figured you to be in the, "not Magical...Functional" camp :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Anyway, congratulations. Oh, that's just wrong. Here I am congratulating you on getting an iCant when I didn't do the same when your daughter was born :{
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>>>>>>He has other options:
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>>>>>>http://www.ipadforums.net/ipad-apps/10027-productivity-office-apps.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>>The post (especially the comments in that top post) are interesting...
>>>>>
>>>>>OK he may have something of a MS Office substitute but let's see him open Visual Studio on that iCant :)
>>>>
>>>>But why would he want to? It is not intended as a one stop solution, any more than a smartphone is.
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>>>If there was a iCant like device that could run VS (which implies a Windows OS), I'm pretty sure that anyone on this forum looking for said device would want it. That device running a full OS would come the closest to a "one stop solution".
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>>>Have a look at one...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDxMCkLCRTs
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>>I like the idea, but I would only develop on an iCant device if it was connected to a full keyboard, mouse, and monitor. I would be more likely to develop on a pc or laptop for the iCant device and test it on the device only:
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>>http://www.biggtech.com/software/develop-for-iphone-touch-using-net-c-novell-announces-monotouch_365.html
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>>I just don't get the merging of everything pc into a small touchscreen. I like the idea of a small device for reading books, internet browsing, email, chatting, etc but not development. When it comes to development, the more power the better and my laptop is what i use for that (which has everything on it except a small and convenient handheld means of reading books).
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>>It might be something others would like though.
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>>I have to admit though, I watched the video and it sure is tempting (even if I would probably still use my laptop for development). It would be a nice mobile device to take with you and have the option to develop if you really needed to. :o)
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>>I would like to see it connecting to TFS and pulling down a large solution....
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>Tracy, that single video is but a drop in the bucket of the capabilities of this device. Try searching YouTube for "ExoPC" or better yet, go to the ExoPC web site. It makes the iCant look like a toy (which perhaps it was meant to be).
>
>"small touchscreen" ? That device has an 11.6 inch,16:9, 1366 x 768, multi-point touch, pressure sensitive display. That's larger than an iCant and rivals netbooks and even some notebooks! I agree with you that it is tempting and I can see on in my future:) Here's the best part...for about the same price of a 64GB iCant you get all that the iCant can offer (reading books, internet, video, email, etc.) plus extensibility via USB ports, SD card slot, camera and everything else that the Windows7 OS can offer. Think about that. This is pretty much a full blown computer the way we're accustomed to but now it thin, small and more portable than net/notebooks. Maybe not as powerful as the high end notebooks, but, as everything electronic, I'm willing to bet that will change in the short haul. The iCant still needs a computer to get content onto it, no?
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>BTW, you *can* attach a keyboard, mouse and monitor to it via USB ports and wireless at that if you so desire. Did you not see the use of a wireless full size keyboard in that video? Intel did a demo using that device (although they didn't name it it was the ExoPC) to show off WiDi. Check it out here http://www.netbooknews.com/8975/intel-widi-tablet-demo-at-idf-2010-day-1-keynote-video/ You don't even need WiDi to view this tablet's display on a big screen, it has 1080p HDMI out!!!
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>I'm starting to sound like a salesman/fanboy for the ExoPC :)

And yet with all that you still will not have the Blessing of Jobs and you will not be the cool guy on the commercial.

My God, man, where are you *values* ?!?

DDxMCkLCRTs