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HF, it doesnt have an arm to stand it up

 

I've investigated further and there seems to be a stand.

 

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No way is that going to stay upright unless your surface is perfectly flat. The best thing about my archos was watching films in bed. There's no chance on that.

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http://10gui.com/video/

 

This decade will see the death of the mouse and the introduction of multi-touch (flash will die too) which offers 'higher bandwidth interaction. The iPad, whilst looking a bit average now has been launched with the future in mind.

 

 

Like the Sinclair C5 :)

 

:) In what way?

 

Watch the video, OSX is made for that shit.

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http://10gui.com/video/

 

This decade will see the death of the mouse and the introduction of multi-touch (flash will die too) which offers 'higher bandwidth interaction. The iPad, whilst looking a bit average now has been launched with the future in mind.

 

 

Like the Sinclair C5 :)

 

:) In what way?

 

Watch the video, OSX is made for that shit.

 

I'm always wary of "in the future we'll all..." type predictions.

 

I can't see touch screens catching on...because after 7 hours at my desk my arms will be knackered.

 

...as much as I like Minority report and throwing thinks around a giant screen, people want to be lazier, not do MORE work.

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http://10gui.com/video/

 

This decade will see the death of the mouse and the introduction of multi-touch (flash will die too) which offers 'higher bandwidth interaction. The iPad, whilst looking a bit average now has been launched with the future in mind.

 

 

Like the Sinclair C5 :D

 

:) In what way?

 

Watch the video, OSX is made for that shit.

 

I'm always wary of "in the future we'll all..." type predictions.

 

I can't see touch screens catching on...because after 7 hours at my desk my arms will be knackered.

 

...as much as I like Minority report and throwing thinks around a giant screen, people want to be lazier, not do MORE work.

 

As i said, watch the video, thats the first thing they address.

 

I'm not predicting they will take-off, just showing where the product will likely go in the future.

 

Tell me, when you are multi-tasking on the archos (have music, photos and a movie all running with perhaps some office software) does it actually resemble a modern windows based computer? By that i mean slow as fuck and crashes a lot. :)

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imho touch screens work as a secondary input, give me a keyboard as well as that touch screen and things would be looking rosy. Somethings are made for touch and others for keyboard. I can see touch screen replacing the mouse functions to an extent but even then, how do you right mouse click to access other menus?

 

Nope for me I just cant see touch screen being the future of PCs just the same as eye gestures (something which Ive played around with developing a couple of trial apps with) at first you think "fuck yeah!" after about 10 minutes use it gets irritating and tedious.

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No multi-task, no flash, 1024 4:3 screen? hardly innovation.

 

This tbh.

 

Aside from that it's going to confuse the fuck out of the Irish too :)

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Tell me, when you are multi-tasking on the archos (have music, photos and a movie all running with perhaps some office software) does it actually resemble a modern windows based computer? By that i mean slow as fuck and crashes a lot. :)

 

Haven't been like that since XP tbh, or even 2000 really. I've not had a single problem with Vista either btw.

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Tell me, when you are multi-tasking on the archos (have music, photos and a movie all running with perhaps some office software) does it actually resemble a modern windows based computer? By that i mean slow as fuck and crashes a lot. :)

 

Out of interest, why would you want to look at photos while watching a movie and listening to an album all at the same time?

 

:)

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Tell me, when you are multi-tasking on the archos (have music, photos and a movie all running with perhaps some office software) does it actually resemble a modern windows based computer? By that i mean slow as fuck and crashes a lot. :)

 

Out of interest, why would you want to look at photos while watching a movie and listening to an album all at the same time?

 

:)

 

I was thinking that too. So why is everyone asking about multi-tasking?

 

I'm actually quite surprised by how little people understand the industry. Apple is moving into the segment with a nice, relatively cheap device. The aim of the investors and the business brains is to use this to unlock what other companies have so far been able to do.

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Tell me, when you are multi-tasking on the archos (have music, photos and a movie all running with perhaps some office software) does it actually resemble a modern windows based computer? By that i mean slow as fuck and crashes a lot. :)

 

Haven't been like that since XP tbh, or even 2000 really. I've not had a single problem with Vista either btw.

 

We are talking about tablets. You have a vista tablet? I was referring to the shit performance of Archos 9.

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Tell me, when you are multi-tasking on the archos (have music, photos and a movie all running with perhaps some office software) does it actually resemble a modern windows based computer? By that i mean slow as fuck and crashes a lot. :)

 

Haven't been like that since XP tbh, or even 2000 really. I've not had a single problem with Vista either btw.

 

We are talking about tablets. You have a vista tablet? I was referring to the shit performance of Archos 9.

 

You asked if the Archos resembled a modern Windows-based computer, and explained that by which you meant slow as fuck and crashes a lot. It's right there in your post. I was just saying that Windows-based computers haven't really been like that for like ten years now.

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Tell me, when you are multi-tasking on the archos (have music, photos and a movie all running with perhaps some office software) does it actually resemble a modern windows based computer? By that i mean slow as fuck and crashes a lot. :)

 

Haven't been like that since XP tbh, or even 2000 really. I've not had a single problem with Vista either btw.

 

We are talking about tablets. You have a vista tablet? I was referring to the shit performance of Archos 9.

 

You asked if the Archos resembled a modern Windows-based computer, and explained that by which you meant slow as fuck and crashes a lot. It's right there in your post. I was just saying that Windows-based computers haven't really been like that for like ten years now.

I was joking in the first post but correct with the second? Hence the smiley?

 

:)

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Tell me, when you are multi-tasking on the archos (have music, photos and a movie all running with perhaps some office software) does it actually resemble a modern windows based computer? By that i mean slow as fuck and crashes a lot. :)

 

Out of interest, why would you want to look at photos while watching a movie and listening to an album all at the same time?

 

:)

 

While perhaps not wanting to use that exact configuration of applications, if anyone else came out with a similar system that didn't allow multi-tasking it would be derided as being useless. It's just about acceptable in a phone but on a tablet/netbook it renders it pretty useless for most modern users who like to flick between applications.

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Tell me, when you are multi-tasking on the archos (have music, photos and a movie all running with perhaps some office software) does it actually resemble a modern windows based computer? By that i mean slow as fuck and crashes a lot. :)

 

Out of interest, why would you want to look at photos while watching a movie and listening to an album all at the same time?

 

:)

 

People's wanking rituals are nobody's business but their own. If it needs chris de burgh playing over a photo of a lass they know on facebook and Ava Devine gagging on a long one all at the same time to get them off who are we to judge?

 

...and if they can whip up a spreadsheet with their left hand...all the better

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