Re: Anybody interested?

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe Pluta wrote:
> Actually, this isn't a For Sale posting.

Ah, I didn't pick up on that.

> I'm just wondering if the basic idea is of interest to our community.
> I'm one of those strange people who thinks a phone should be a phone;
> I don't have any desire to hold a PC up to my ear (or to have one of
> those Borg implants).

Remind me to show you my new iPhone :)

I used to think as you do ... but after playing around with an iPhone a
bit, I really like it (http://www.geekyramblings.org/2008/03/16/iphone/).

Mind you I don't use the camera that much, but the email, browser, maps,
etc, are getting to be darn useful.

> At the same time, laptops are not always the best solution.  So while
> I was looking for a Linux desktop machine to play with and at the
> same time trying to find a better traveling PC, I ran across the ASUS
> Eee PC, and I'm hooked.

I had thought about getting one of the really small notebooks, but 
decided against it.  I usually travel with my laptop ... I need a boat 
load of storage for pictures and like to have the full capability when I 
need it.  Even remoting into a desktop isn't sufficient.

On a side note, I would really like to find an inexpensive tablet 
computer that I can mount on a wall in the kitchen.  It would be nice to 
have a convenient interface into google calendars, a notepad app, a 
recipe manager, and maybe a news feed easily accessible.

david