and slowly emerging from the rock that I was hiding under while I was finishing grad school. Now that I’m finished, expect more posts on the tabletscape as soon as I catch up on all of the mobile tech news I have missed!
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Okay, I’ll admit that being a vegetarian means that I don’t exactly appreciate leather. Still, I’m somewhat baffled by Asus’ new attempt to market to the female population. A Target exclusive, the Asus S6 pink leather edition, has the specs of an average 12″ laptop. But it’s pink and leather so therefore it’s marked up to $2199.99. If I’m going to drop that much on a laptop, it’s going to be an ultraportable tablet that’s actually useful. However, I’m not a typical consumer so I imagine this is selling like hotcakes. And in related news, Target has an entire category devoted to pink electronics. This is me rolling my eyes.
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I’m wondering if it is because I live in an apartment and all my neighbors also have wireless routers and it is just signal congestion, but the problem is certainly strange.
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Now if I had a UMPC, I could have tethered it to my cell phone and used the thirty minute ride to enter the contest. So here is my number one reason for getting a UMPC: not having one makes it harder to get free gadgets. And I’m all about free gadgets.
Seriously though, congratulations to James Kendrick and Kevin Tofel for reaching this milestone. I check jkOnTheRun daily and I’m a fan. Hopefully, I’ll have my UMPC when they reach twelve million page views!
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I’m on the D-list. So does this mean I rate a bit part in the Tech Blog Movie?
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Either way the Kohjinsha SA1 should make the people complaining about the lack of keyboard in a UMPC happy. This Japanese device has a 7″ screen, 40 gb harddrive (up to 80 gb), keyboard, touchscreen swivel display, and up to 1 gig of RAM. So far it’s slated to be released only in Japan but the folks at Dynamism already have it up for preorder. At $999, it really is tempting. My main concern is the 500 Mhz processor and the fact that I really wish it came with 1024×600 resolution instead of 800×480. Still, it looks like a nice little device!
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I sincerely apologize for the long break in updating Scarlet Umbrella. I don’t want to bore you with details but I do feel that an explanation is in order. Basically, real life got real complicated real fast. My “day job” is a graduate student. This semester I have alternated working on purifying a protein with one of my group’s collaborators and having my first “hands on” experience playing a professor. I won a fellowship to work with a mentor in my department developing my skills as a teacher. For the fellowship, I tutored students, developed my own lectures, wrote my own homework and quizzes and led review sessions for a class of 170 students. Around the same time, I had to deal with some personal difficulties including my aunt’s cancer becoming terminal.
I hope that everyone has been doing well these past few months and has been having fun inking.
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I brought my tablet to a meeting of a bunch of my fellow graduate students. The consensus was that my tablet was pretty cool. It manages to solve two problems that most graduate students have: we have heavy laptops and we have to lug around a lot of papers. My tablet is *light.* It weighs about three pounds and I can save all of my papers onto it. I am able to carry it to meetings and take notes without causing a distraction as well as have all my notes and my agenda with me. In this particular meeting, I was able to access the internet and pull up the fall class schedule and have it as a reference for the group.
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When I first got a tablet, one of my coworkers asked if I knew whether or not you could install Linux on it. My response was probably, although you would kill all the tablet functionality. I think one of the signs that tablets are finally being appreciated, at least among geeks, is the growing interest in creating a tablet PC Linux distro. I found this discussion on what could be included in a tablet PC version of Ubuntu interesting. Although I am perfectly happy with Win XP Tablet PC edition, I figure all software development in the tablet PC world is a good thing so I add my vote for a tablet PC Linux distro.
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