Best lighteight notebook with nipple?
Aug 19, 2003, 4:36 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by QuietLion:
Opinions from any other tablet users... better than a notebook in every way, or problems?
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Opinions from any other tablet users... better than a notebook in every way, or problems?
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Aug 19, 2003, 5:12 am
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Aug 21, 2003, 11:45 am
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IMHO, every frequent flyer should have a Sony Picturebook. It's the best of the small half-size notebooks. You don't have to take it out of your bag at security checkpoints! They think it's a palm or DVD player. Yet it's as fully functional as any other notebook. The basic difference is a half-height screen. The keyboard on the Sony is the same for all notebooks.
I'm not sure if the new models have wifi yet. I told them they should add it about a year ago. I've been using these for 4 years and I'm on my 3rd model.
And yes, it has a nipple.
I'm not sure if the new models have wifi yet. I told them they should add it about a year ago. I've been using these for 4 years and I'm on my 3rd model.
And yes, it has a nipple.
Aug 25, 2003, 10:52 am
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Sony just released the successor to the Picturebook - the Vaio TR1A. Pentium M, integrated wi-fi, DVD, 10.6" 16:9 screen, 3lbs, etc etc. I bought one from Circuit City and played around with it for a few days - its a nice machine, but I just couldn't get used to the way it looks. I bought the Fujitsu P5000 instead, which is also a nice super-small laptop for traveling.
BTW, neither of them have a "nipple", so I suppose that disqualifies both (although the predecessor to the P5000 - the P2000 - has a nipple instead of a touchpad, but it also has a slower Crusoe chip and shorter battery life).
BTW, neither of them have a "nipple", so I suppose that disqualifies both (although the predecessor to the P5000 - the P2000 - has a nipple instead of a touchpad, but it also has a slower Crusoe chip and shorter battery life).
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by stimpy:
IMHO, every frequent flyer should have a Sony Picturebook. It's the best of the small half-size notebooks. You don't have to take it out of your bag at security checkpoints! They think it's a palm or DVD player. Yet it's as fully functional as any other notebook. The basic difference is a half-height screen. The keyboard on the Sony is the same for all notebooks.
I'm not sure if the new models have wifi yet. I told them they should add it about a year ago. I've been using these for 4 years and I'm on my 3rd model.
And yes, it has a nipple.</font>
IMHO, every frequent flyer should have a Sony Picturebook. It's the best of the small half-size notebooks. You don't have to take it out of your bag at security checkpoints! They think it's a palm or DVD player. Yet it's as fully functional as any other notebook. The basic difference is a half-height screen. The keyboard on the Sony is the same for all notebooks.
I'm not sure if the new models have wifi yet. I told them they should add it about a year ago. I've been using these for 4 years and I'm on my 3rd model.
And yes, it has a nipple.</font>
Aug 25, 2003, 4:19 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by DH:
I believe PC term is eraser head.
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I believe PC term is eraser head.
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Aug 26, 2003, 9:50 pm
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I would think the term would be "nubbin," actually.
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Aug 27, 2003, 12:13 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by skofarrell:
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Aug 27, 2003, 1:25 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by ClueByFour:
I would think the term would be "nubbin," actually.
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I would think the term would be "nubbin," actually.
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OT - when I was in college, I had an interview for a summer internship with a guy at IBM's Almaden Research center who claimed that he had invented the nubbin. He had a cool prototype for a tactical-feedback nubbin in his office - it had little things in the nubbin that poked up into your finger so you could "feel" as the mouse moved over the edge of windows and other screen "landscape". It was pretty cool - don't know if it ever made it into a commercial product. BTW, I didn't get the internship.
Aug 27, 2003, 1:33 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by stimpy:
IMHO, every frequent flyer should have a Sony Picturebook. It's the best of the small half-size notebooks. You don't have to take it out of your bag at security checkpoints! They think it's a palm or DVD player. Yet it's as fully functional as any other notebook. The basic difference is a half-height screen. The keyboard on the Sony is the same for all notebooks.
I'm not sure if the new models have wifi yet. I told them they should add it about a year ago. I've been using these for 4 years and I'm on my 3rd model.
And yes, it has a nipple.</font>
IMHO, every frequent flyer should have a Sony Picturebook. It's the best of the small half-size notebooks. You don't have to take it out of your bag at security checkpoints! They think it's a palm or DVD player. Yet it's as fully functional as any other notebook. The basic difference is a half-height screen. The keyboard on the Sony is the same for all notebooks.
I'm not sure if the new models have wifi yet. I told them they should add it about a year ago. I've been using these for 4 years and I'm on my 3rd model.
And yes, it has a nipple.</font>
Aug 27, 2003, 10:22 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by ScottC:
The new model of the picture book is the Vaio TR1A, no more "nipple" but a trackpad though it does come with WiFi. Price is just under $1900 retail. I HATED the old picturebook, useless POS...</font>
The new model of the picture book is the Vaio TR1A, no more "nipple" but a trackpad though it does come with WiFi. Price is just under $1900 retail. I HATED the old picturebook, useless POS...</font>
The TR-1A looks much bigger and the pad seems to add too much size. I'll call the Sony Cierge people to find out what's the deal with the smaller notebooks. I hope I don't have to go to Europe or Japan for my next model.
Aug 28, 2003, 10:29 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by JSD:
He had a cool prototype for a tactical-feedback nubbin in his office - it had little things in the nubbin that poked up into your finger so you could "feel" as the mouse moved over the edge of windows and other screen "landscape". </font>
He had a cool prototype for a tactical-feedback nubbin in his office - it had little things in the nubbin that poked up into your finger so you could "feel" as the mouse moved over the edge of windows and other screen "landscape". </font>
*removes head from gutter and goes back to work*
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Aug 28, 2003, 1:50 pm
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I checked with Cierge and they said no more Picturebooks in the U.S. I guess I'm going to have to stretch the life of my current model (which is doing fine so far) and look to Japan or Europe when I need another one. 