I really enjoy my rooted Nook Color. Appstore access, a shell prompt and the form factor (7") makes for a better ereader IMO. Anyone doing anything neat/different with their Nook? Ron On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Kris Browne <kris.browne at gmail.com> wrote: > One can turn this question around. > > When I'm away from a full size computer, the majority of what I'm doing > does not require any significant input. Watching movies, playing games, > reading news/books/email, etc. Why in the world would I want to waste the > weight involved in a keyboard for something I would only rarely use, and > would mar the form-factor? > > In my experience though, there is no deficiency in using the built-in > software keyboard for the cases it's needed, and if I'm dong longer form > work a Bluetooth keyboard is more than adequate. (at least on iOS devices; I > hated the soft-keyboard when I had an android phone). > > > Kris Browne > kris.browne at gmail.com > http://www.google.com/profiles/kris.browne > > "the least expensive, most bug-free line of code is the one you didn't have > to write." - Steve Jobs > > > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 02:14, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, 17 May 2011, Steve McGrath wrote: >> >> I have a gTablet, it's crap. >>> >> >> [snip] >> >> Any interest here? >>> >> >> The thing I wonder about is why I would want one. I have a netbook -- I >> like that for when I travel, for taking notes at lectures, etc. It has a >> keyboard, which helps. I see a lot of interest in tablets right now but I'm >> not sure of why I'd want one. When I see an ad for the iPad tablet, they >> make it look great, but most of what they are showing is really nice >> software that has nothing to do with the device, as far as I know. >> >> The one thing I an appreciate about it is that it must be nice for reading >> stuff, like newspapers, maybe books or journal articles. It would be >> awkward to turn a netbook sideways, but it's easy with tablet. Is that the >> main selling point? - That it's nice for reading stuff? For movies it seems >> like a netbook would be nicer because it automatically holds the screen in >> the right position and it gives me a keyboard that I can use easily for >> pause, rewind, fast-forward, etc. >> >> So I'm not sure I'm getting the attraction unless it's all about reading >> (as it is with Kindle or Nook), but maybe someone here can fill me in. >> >> Mike >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- http://ronspace.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110519/1cb5f09a/attachment.html>