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The AntiPad
- aaronbrethorst 17y agoNo wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame. In all seriousness, this is awesome, but...at a price $100 higher than the entry-level iPad, it's hard to justify. I was super-excited for that Optimus keyboard, too, but at the end of the day, they're both keyboards, even if they do crazy stuff on top of it.
- bobzimuta 17y ago"Ultra Wide Band transmitter and external receiver for sending audio and video to a TV wirelessly, b/g/n Wi-Fi, ..., Bluetooth"
- marknutter 17y agoI don't think you're getting the reference.. http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257 http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257
- confuzatron 17y agoI got a sore neck just looking at the picture of that thing. I'm surprised that anyone thought such a device would sell.
- eru 17y agoWhy? Having a touchpad to the right doesn't seem like something that's bad for your neck. You are supposed to hook it up with a monitor. Go, read the text in the article.
- confuzatron 17y agoOK, I'm gonna change the subject and complain that this thing is not suitable for left handers. Yep, that'll do it.
- pan69 17y agoI really appreciate the innovation in this product. It might need a number of iterations though before they get a really good product out of it.
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoPresumably there will be a wireless HDMI dongle so you can pop down by any screen, plug in the wireless dongle and use that screen with your keyboard computer ("keyPad"? "netboard"?). As for iterations, when I can fold it and put it in my pocket ... I don't really see how this is better than having a netbook or in a static setup having a wireless keyboard with a touchpad (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003GU1028?ie=UTF8&tag=flapjacktasti-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B003GU1028 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003GU1028?ie=UTF8&tag=... , aff).
- fizx 17y agoI think i want a 1200x300 display above the keys. Split into three tabs, and i could almost edit code and open a terminal to fix a server or two.
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoI remember electronic typewriters like this.
- teve_torbes 17y agoIt's a little nostalgic coming from C64/Apple II days having a keyboard+computer in one, but this doesn't make sense anymore. Once you consider the cost of a display, why not just get a netbook or a nettop with display? Even in a developing market, this is pointless.
- philwelch 17y agoFrom article, emphasis added: "Apple's iMac has long embodied the notion of an entire PC crammed inside a monitor, but this is the first time we've heard of someone trying it with a keyboard."
- Qz 17y agoBecause you can just hijack any display you want (with permission of course). I mean, I've got an extra monitor. Want to hook it up to the TV? take it down and connect to the TV. Going to visit a friend? Bring it over connect to their TV. It's really not a netbook, so much as a portable desktop.
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoFunny you mention C64, there's a commodore branded thing that's similar coming out soon: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/25/commodore_64_redux/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/25/commodore_64_redux/
- metachor 17y agoJust to be clear, that's not really a Commodore-branded machine. Some hoaxer took pictures of another company's product (an all-in-one keyboard-computer meant to be used for Point-of-Sales systems) and threw up a poorly designed website claiming it was made by Commodore.
- rimantas 17y agoThey should have a photo with hands on that thing. This would instantly explain what's wrong with it.
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- kprobst 17y agoPut the screen on the other side of the keyboard and I might go for it. I cram my neck the other way. That's where my 2nd monitor is.
- eru 17y agoThat's not the screen on the right.
- TomasSedovic 17y agoGive me this combined with glasses that project the screen image and I won't touch a laptop ever again.
- DanielBMarkham 17y agoMe neither. Add 3-D to the glasses and hand gesture recognition. To me, much more powerful than a jumbo-sized iPod
- binarymax 17y agohttp://hollywoodhatesme.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/johnny_mnemonic_3.jpg http://hollywoodhatesme.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/johnny_m... :)
- illumin8 17y agoYou might need a battery too :-)
- akirk 17y agoBy mistake I first read ant-iPad and was confused :)
- buster 17y agoWindows XP? I'd like to see android running on there! :)
- cturner 17y agoRight. Would be good to be able to mount a phone in a keyboard, and to hook up an external monitor.
- _debug_ 17y agoIs there an extremely lightweight screen to go with this? I'd love to have a very lightweight computer that I can carry around. I would then Remote Desktop onto the beast running at home.
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoMicroprojectors are pretty light weight and luggable, YMMV (a lot).
- marknutter 17y agoI have for years contemplated buying a mac mini to hook up to my plasma TV, but I just haven't been able to justify the cost when I can just hook my laptop up to it. When I heard about this Asus keyboard/computer a couple years back I got pretty excited, especially about the wireless transmitting to a display. Now I own an iPad and the appeal of surfing the web on my plasma greatly diminished for me. As for watching internet video like Hulu, I think I'm just gonna get myself one of these Henge (http://www.hengedocks.com/ http://www.hengedocks.com/) docks and save myself the $600.
- emehrkay 17y agoWas sad to see it run Windows
- mikecane 17y agoThis has been in development for well over a year. Very disappointed it's going to hit at a whopping $600. That's way overpriced for an Atom CPU. This was supposed to be $400 originally, I think.
- mhb 17y agoIt looks awkward with the screen on the right. I'd like to see one with a split ergonomic keyboard with the screen in the middle.
- Tycho 17y agoI like this. I'm thinking: what if the iMacs shipped with a keyboard like that, basically one with an integrated iPod Touch style device where the numeric keypad usually goes? I suppose the most obvious use would be for programs to delegate some controls onto that touchpad. For instance, sliders for an audio mixing program. The rest of the time it could just be a keypad or collection of shortcuts. Or maybe a good place for notifications/readouts like newsfeeds, tweets, system monitoring, etc. Can anyone think of more innovative uses?
- DrSprout 17y ago$600? I wish someone would just make an electronic wifi typewriter. Full-size laptop chassis, 7" screen, space for spare batteries if you want. The bare-bones model with 4 hours battery life and a 400mhz processor could easily clock in at $100. For $200 on top of that in batteries and solar, 20 hours would certainly be in reach.
- eru 17y agoI seldom downvote, but here I could not resist to take a point from everyone who did not read the article and mistook the touch pad for the screen.