Topic: Overheard: Steve Jobs Says Apple Tablet “Will Be The Most Important Thing...

[sam]

http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/24/steve-jobs-tablet-most-important

“This will be the most important thing I’ve ever done” – Steve Jobs, referring to the soon-to-be-launched Apple Tablet.

or you could just go buy the Archos one right now.. http://www.archos.com/products/nb/archos_9/design.html?country=gb&lang=en

[Simon]

They're certainly hyping it up!

[Rik]

I preferred a netbook to an Archos.

[sam]

yeah but Archos do make netbooks now.. and this is the tablet version. Looks pretty swish and from what my better half was saying not too expensive either. Only problem is the touch screen and linux... well I'm not sure how well they work together yet...

[sam]

though saying that a lot of these phones under the hood have a linux system running so its probably fine - just got to find the right package ... well it looks like it can be done: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree86-Touch-Screen-HOWTO.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx9FgLr9oTk

but maybe not the fancy two fingered stuff

[Rik]

Can you imagine how dirty the monitor is going to get - and that's before anyone starts to watch porn.

[Clive]

      

[Rik]

[Simon]