Actually, whether it is 7" or 10.1" or 15", if they can still keep it at US$399, have 5hrs batt life and < 3 lbs weight, I don't really care. I'll just choose the size that fits my needs.

And please, keep bezels thin, like 5mm~10mm thin.

What's with the thick bezel? Specs wise, MSI has it all already. Half the bezel and MSI has got a winner!! :D

Strange how mockups always have nice thin bezels. ok, maybe Sony and Apple notebooks also have them. Other than that, every other netbooks seem to have 1~2" thick bezels around their LCD and keyboards!

What Psion should have done is not drop the baby on the original NetBooks.
While it is their legal right and duty as a trademark owner to defend it, it has been 1+ years since Asus launched the 701 and stirred up the whole pc market with this new category of netbooks, so it can lapse into common usage and undefendable.

Interesting that Intel propose the category/platform, but it is Asus who materialised it. ;)

This could also go the way Apple did for their clash with Apple Corp (Beattles) where Apple Inc is not allowed to venture into the music business. Later when Apple Inc. went into it via iTunes, there were again some hassle. Check out the details online.

One thing though, the Psion netbooks and the present series of netbook products are pretty similar, minus the instanton, long battery life (excluding some of the extended batt models).

Ah well, this is America, the land of salesmen and lawyers. What else can we expect? :D

What Psion should have done is not drop the baby on the original NetBooks.
While it is their legal right and duty as a trademark owner to defend it, it has been 1+ years since Asus launched the 701 and stirred up the whole pc market with this new category of netbooks, so it can lapse into common usage and undefendable.

Interesting that Intel propose the category/platform, but it is Asus who materialised it. ;)

This could also go the way Apple did for their clash with Apple Corp (Beattles) where Apple Inc is not allowed to venture into the music business. Later when Apple Inc. went into it via iTunes, there were again some hassle. Check out the details online.

One thing though, the Psion netbooks and the present series of netbook products are pretty similar, minus the instanton, long battery life (excluding some of the extended batt models).

Ah well, this is America, the land of salesmen and lawyers. What else can we expect? :D

If they add the Maglev technology to a plane and have runways support maglev tech, then planes don't have to worry about bumpy landing or bursting tires ya?

Take off and landings could be smoother and safer too!

Take off Sequence:
1. Taxi to runway with undercarriage.
2. Power up Maglev
3. Rev up to take off speed
4. Power down Maglev once airborne

Landing Sequence:
1. Descend and power up Maglev
2. Land and lower undercarriage once taxing begins.
3. Power off Maglev once undercarriage engaged.

Undercarriage is there as backup and also to reduce the stretch of road that requires Maglev support.

Nostalgia about devices or software is nice ... if they stay as that ... nostalgia! Nostalgia allows us to reminiscent about the wonderful or desirable or perceived wonderful/desirable part of it. Actually getting the old device or software back also brings with it the ugly part, which kinda kills the magic!

When the *lucky* winner of this IIgs find that he cannot surf the web on it properly or watch youtube, then he will wake up. ;)

BSODs ... it's interesting how people refer to BSODs on Windows like it is common for all flavours of it. On Windows 9x, it was truly common and if not for the fact that I was in my upgrade-fever phase back then, I would not have tolerated Windows. Granted, I even tried linux and OS/2 Warp, while holding on tenaciously to DOS6.22, so I guess I can very much bear with the BSODs. This is especially when most are caused by my overclocking of cpu and rams. :P

On Windows 2000 and Windows XP however, it's a different story. I rarely experienced crashes. The few times when I had one was due to some old devices that had crappy drivers or when the ram died on me one time for one of my notebook. So maybe it's important for us to clarify when we compare BSODs with Apple PCs hanging up. Otherwise, we are really lumping up the whole family of Windows OSes, which are quite different beasts. :)

Why hasn't anyone adapted such a device for PC use? Then we can have Minority Report type of Interface! 8)

Existing PCs can add tablet/stylus support without expensive mods, but can use such a device via USB. 8)

For goodness sake, the dialkeys were in use by Fujitsu in the P1510D before the Origami announcements http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2006/03/ontherun_with_t_3.html

MS saw a great product in the dialkeys, worked with the Dialkeys folks and brought it under the TabletPC arm.

As for Newton, Stevie was the one who axed it. Surprise surprise.