It looks pretty good, but I still maintain my position from last summer, which was that this will never cost $200. Of course, that's fine, as I would not expect a device like this to cost that much to begin with. About $400 seems like the 'right' price for something like this.
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#32Stylus support and therefore support to take notes while on the road would be the feature that makes me lay down even $400 for this thing.
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#33I'd certainly choose this over, say, a Kindle. If they can actually deliver, and at the price they've bandied about, I'd love to have one.
They're definitely two different beasts.
Kindle if you plan on reading a lot. Doing real reading on E-Ink is much, much, much nicer than reading from an LCD.
CrunchPad if you want to browse the internet, and pretty much do anything else (within it's capabilities that is).
Am planning on getting a DX for reading books and research papers, however... the CrunchPad would be a great item for the coffee table, or... bathroom :)
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#34Hm, did you see in the promotion video of the Software how much the video was bucking especially at full screen?
I think that the CrunchPad will be quite interesting for Websites but not so for multimedia applications in the beginning.
Hope I am wrong though.
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#35Its hard to believe it will sell for <$200 / without being locked to some sort of contract or homepage with ads etc ... If so - this is truly an amazing achievement, not to mention its amazing that its techcrunch.
Nothing wrong with having a home page with ads if it brings the cost down.
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#36Its hard to believe it will sell for <$200 / without being locked to some sort of contract or homepage with ads etc ... If so - this is truly an amazing achievement, not to mention its amazing that its techcrunch.
Nothing wrong with having a home page with ads if it brings the cost down.
It's a technique used by Dell and other PC makers for years. It's a nuisance, but if cost is a factor, it can be worth the 20 minutes it takes to clean the crap off.
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#37I will buy one if and only if I can install my own software on it.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
At the expected price point, or at all? Could you articulate why?
Sure. It certainly will not be a quality product at that price point. And if it costs much more, it will not be competitive. I am anticipating a debacle in which they realize that they can't turn a profit by selling the device for any less than $600, making it a flop: Stores don't order products they know they can't move. Best-case scenario is a Zune-like reception.
I'm not sure where they plan on having it manufactured but if they're first time overseas manufacturing virgins, I'm guessing "quailty fade"[1] will hit them like a freight train. If they do go on sale, buy one from the first run.
[1] Quality fade is the odd phenomenon where your first batch of manufactured goods from the asain factory is fantastic. You pop champagne, sell the first couple thousand at a tidy profit and the world's your oyster. Over the next few successive shipments, the quality of the products deteriorates until they barely remain assembled during shipping. The dirty trick was that the factory took a huge loss making that first run out of quality materials but then slowly substituted inferior parts without informing you until it became profitable for them.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
At the expected price point, or at all? Could you articulate why?
Sure. It certainly will not be a quality product at that price point. And if it costs much more, it will not be competitive. I am anticipating a debacle in which they realize that they can't turn a profit by selling the device for any less than $600, making it a flop: Stores don't order products they know they can't move. Best-case scenario is a Zune-like reception.
$600 sounds plausible to me -- after all, the $100 laptop cost more like $200 when it was done. If a netbook with aluminium case, VIA Nano processor and 12" touchscreen was profitable to manufacture at $300, one of the Asian companies would already be selling them, I suppose.
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#40Nice picture there. Has it got velcro on the back or something? Because I can see it slipping down her leg and falling on the floor pretty quickly.