From: Dan Thaning (dan.thaning_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jan 19 2005 - 02:49:24 PST
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 11:31:53 -0800, Martin Joseph
<martyNT_at_barknaturalpet.com> wrote:
>=20
> On Jan 17, 2005, at 11:22 AM, Victor Rehorst wrote:
>=20
> > Luiz Petroni wrote:
> >> Paul,
> >>
> >> Sorry if this does not make any sense but, with the recent launch of
> >> the Mac mini, I would like to know if a combo of the Mini + a small /
> >> well mounted / compatible touchscreen + inkwell could work as a future
> >> hardware/software platform for this project?
> >
> > I think the answer is pretty obvious. But why would you need Inkwell?
> > Newton
> > OS is the original Inkwell, one could say.
> >
> > Also, you'd need a pretty long cord for the mini. It's not called the
> > Mac
> > portable, is what I'm trying to say :P
> >
I know I wouldn=B4t want to carry the battery-backpack, even if it is possi=
ble.
http://wearables.blu.org/.
Some of them use mini-itx. It all depends on powerconsumption. And
the batteries would be expensive, it would probably be cheaper to just
mod an old ibook into a tablet.
> > In any event, you're getting a bit ahead of yourself, Einstein is
> > still in a
> > very early state.
>=20
> The goal is to get a portable POSIX compliant deal going and then to
> move to already available off the shelf hardware. So for example, one
> of the high end HP pocketPC machines running LINUX with Einstien on
> top...
Ipaq hx4700 is what the Newton hardware would be today if it continued.
It=B4s already running Linux http://www.handhelds.org/geeklog/index.php
, only with serial console so far but once it gets the linux drivers
going it=B4s a perfect replacment 600Mhz Xscale,128MB, wlan,bluetooth,
MMC(sdio) and CompactFlash, 640x480 screen.
I think that would last my another 10 years:-)
Sure one could use one of the smaller 320x240 Ipaqs but that would be
a lot of scrolling:-)
Another thing is that there aren=B4t really any competition to the
Ipaqs, the Zaurus is hard to get and the Pepperpad is a tablet
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