[svlug] Windows refund

[James Sparenberg]

Don Marti wrote:
> begin James Sparenberg quotation of Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 03:43:59PM -0700:
>
>   
>> I agree whole heartedly.  I for one am a member of that niche.  I SSH 
>> out and thumb type like mad with my G-1 for sure and would love 
>> something like my Eeepc that I could put in a pocket and yet still be 
>> able to do cloud style computing.  The catagory I'm seeing created is 
>> something called smartbooks.  They seem to have a form factor similar to 
>> the new full on computers Sony put out but with less CPU, and no 
>> mechanical HDD.
>>     
>
> OQO machines are thumbable.
>   http://www.oqo.com/products/index.html
>
> (But they didn't offer a Linux-preloaded version,
> so they missed the boat, market-wise.  If they had
> launched with Linux, MSFT would have given them so
> much support to push the Windows version that they'd
> be everywhere.)
>
>   

Looking at it.  This Android system might be fun.  
http://business2press.com/2009/06/04/first-video-of-google-android-laptop-computer/  
However I really think Palm blew it when they didn't release their 
little netbook. THAT was sweet.

James