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Pretty cool, pretty cool...]]>Oct 12th 2006 9:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/Oct 12th 2006 9:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/
HAHAHAHA!]]>Oct 12th 2006 9:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/Oct 12th 2006 9:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/Oct 12th 2006 10:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/Oct 12th 2006 10:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/Oct 12th 2006 10:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/Oct 12th 2006 10:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/Oct 12th 2006 10:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/> Wow, that looks like a badass Atari Lynx.

The Atari Lynx was a badass Atari Lynx.]]>Oct 12th 2006 10:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/
Sorry.
I dig the thing but I'm not seeing the advantages.]]>Oct 12th 2006 10:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/Oct 12th 2006 10:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/]]>Oct 12th 2006 11:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/Oct 13th 2006 12:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/Oct 13th 2006 12:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/Oct 13th 2006 2:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/But It's not a laptop is it? See how it lacks a folding screen with keyboard? There are many decent things you could buy for $700 but unless your after a decent $700 UMPC, then there's not much point in adding your comparison comment.]]>Oct 13th 2006 2:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/there certainly is no reason for it in a portable/pocket device, quite stupid to use it. a new layout needs to be designed for thumb typing and should be customized for whichever particular device. whats wrong w/ gadget makers these days, do they really think any1 is touchtyping w/ their thumbs on these things? (retorical-obviously theyre not thinking at all in terms of keys)
a full layout -yes. QWERTY - NO f'n WAY.]]>Oct 13th 2006 4:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/
You must be new to technology, because without a physical keyboard your stuck with slow methods of input. I'm typing this on a Pepper Pad 2 now, using thumbs and nice lighted split keyboard it comes with. Most people don't like Microsofts UMPC' because the lack of keyboards and Windows implemention.]]>Oct 13th 2006 7:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/uh no- i didnt say death to the keyboard i said death to qwerty. i clearly stated that a full keyboard is good. now heres a history lesson for you. qwerty is a ordering of characters and was designed for typewriters back in 1868. in order to keep the keys from running into each other the keys were purpously put in the most nonsensical way posible to keep typists from ever hitting 2 or more keys near each other on the keyboard. it should have been killed off w/ the advent of the computer. but in order to get people to use one in its early days the keyboard was kept in the qwerty layout so as not to alienate touchtypists(if you dont know that- people like writers/secretaries learned to type fast w/out looking at their hands). otherwise the wordprocessor would have been a dead app and few people would be interested in changing to computers from typewriters. now once the computer became dominant in society that excuse no longer is valid. so here we are 30 yrs later and still the qwerty is on most keyboards. phones and pda's n such are a whole new ball game they could have designed a whole new layout for those. theres absolutly no reason to have the keys layed out for touchtypists when your using your thumbs to type. now maybe i should have said all this before so as to avoid people who cant figure things out for them selves and need every little thing explained to them. so next time before you go saying that someone doesnt know anything about technology, you better look at yourself first.]]>Oct 15th 2006 1:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/Oct 13th 2006 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/Oct 13th 2006 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/ "my "decked out" Dell B130 blows that thing away even equipped with the bigger non-exploding battery and better WiFi!"

Yes...and a Cray makes your laptop's CPU seem about as fast as a sundial. Which would you rather carry around in a messanger bag?

Kidding...:P

But I would guess the advantages (if there are any) are that it is smaller and lighter than *most* laptops. It is purpose built as a web and media device and thus is pretty simple to use. And it's Linux based so security updates are few and far between. It can arguably be called more durable as it has less moving parts than a laptop (yes...I'm mainly talking about the screen's big ole hing...).

Being a long time poster on Engadget, and thus a tech enthusiast by default, you pretty well certainly know how to use and maintain the equipment you need to do what you want to do, which probably means these selling points don't matter much to you (particularly since you LOSE some power, utility, and usability to gain those advantages).

Whether or not they matter to other people (specifically, enough people to keep Pepperpad in business) is a another matter...]]>Oct 13th 2006 8:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/
I'm not buying it, that's for sure..]]>Oct 13th 2006 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/Oct 13th 2006 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/Oct 13th 2006 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/http://www.ecost.com/ecost/shop/detail~DPNo~4763956.asp]]>Oct 13th 2006 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/Oct 13th 2006 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/Oct 13th 2006 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/Oct 23rd 2006 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/here-comes-the-pepper-pad-3/Jan 9th 2007 1:59PM