I was waiting for information about this to appear today and finally found it linked from Ubuntucat. It's probably on news sites now, but that's a morning ritual of mine (not evening).
The marketing to the masses here is very solid. I'm not talking about the OS / product / etc. either, I just mean how they're presenting it. With the browser they had a comic book, now they have a slick moving picture narrated by one of those average-guy voices.
On the technical side, this sounds like something I'd have to dual-boot to or just play with. Even though most of what I do is on the internet, I still have a lot of files to mess with in the interim. I can't have just a web browser yet, because I download shit and then copy it to my PS3, get pictures off my phone, edit graphics in Gimp/Paint.NET, and then there's the Apache / Subversion / PHP / coding tools. I also have a large music library (99% legal!) that I fall back on when I tire of Pandora's oddities.
Hmm, I wonder how they're planning to handle photos / video. My dad pulls stuff off his digital camera and copies it to his computer right now. Will this have some kind of capability there like sync'ing to a web service or simply not allow it at all? The paranoid part of me also fears the possibility of losing internet connection (a slightly less likely scenario now that I also have a MiFi) in which case you're totally effed.
It's probably got more local processing than they let on, because they're leading with the whole dumb-terminal concept. Anyway, I can't wait to see some meat!
Thursday, November 19, 2009
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So, we dropped off our blog club subscriptions around the time I went to Hawaii. I don't think I can do once a week, but perhaps we can come up with a kind of game of "tag" or something. I dunno.
prestiv
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