Nearest thing I have seen to that is the ASUS Transformer quite nice.
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How many 10-14 year olds have no computer of their own?
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I am prepared to wait and see. I confess that I had previously thought the under a tenner STM32F4DISCOVERY development board complete with a few LEDs and built in accelerometers was ideal fodder for school labs.
That is a lot for the money and somewhat more geared to tinkering. Although again you could criticise the brochure/datasheet. It is also on back order for mid-March so maybe on the same container shipment.
However, it does show that kit is on offer in this price range.
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It opened OK for me. 205 pages of text & graphics.
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And for those that do want a display, the board has an HDMI output - so you plug it into your TV, just like in the good old days of home computers.
Of course a brighter 13 year old then yourself would just us his/her PC to learn Python on...
Boo
Notebook + cell phone + game console.
Get on the bus ten years ago, and nobody had a cell... maybe one or two, and a few had a non-connected MP3 player.
Get on a bus these days, and nearly every passenger has a cell, many have their faces stuffed into them, and next to none have additional MP3 players because their cell does that too. This includes any kid over about 11 yo.
Saw a couple of 3&5YOs in a store the other day. Each had buds in the ears and a tablet in the paw.
Over a grand, I think, too. I don't want to replace the laptop, just augment it.
Including taxes over here UK got for 450 pounds and conversion rate is not $2 to 1 pound. The extra keyboard/trackpad section has additional batteries.
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From what I see, the "Transformer" line is around $500-$600 but they're Android. That's what I don't want. The "Slate" is around $1300, which is what I pay for reasonably high-end laptops. Lenovo has one of their convertibles (laptop w/keyboard or tablet) for about the same price, or even a little less.
Ha, good point!
I've moved as well; more wideband analog (with digital thrown in as needed), less narrowband RF-focused stuff.
I'm sure my former employer still thinks their product is going to completely capture much of the market of your former employer, though. :-) I was never entirely convinced of that, but -- assuming they actually get around to releasing it (like many small companies, I don't think we ever actually had a product release even close to the original schedule) -- it could be reasonably successful in venues where the ISM bands are quite crowded. (Your guys getting a 900MHz version out was a good move, IMO.)
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Mmm... maybe the Sony slider, soon-to-be released? -->
Of course, Sony has never been exactly cheap either...
The stuff I'm working on now is still digital in an analog (audio) world but much higher end. I've just started on an amplifier with two of the largest SHARCs we could hook. ;-)
Wouldn't bother me a bit. I'm rooting for them. ;-)
Ours was three years late (I got there at the end) on a one year schedule, so... I could have saved them at *least* two years of that, including one to try it their way, and fail. ;-)
900MHz was really need for the domes and a few places where 2.4G is hugely overcrowded (and where the powersthatbe are afraid of 2.4G). It has too many other problems for general use. 2.4G is far superior for 95% of the installations.
Actually, Sony has been "cheap" in many ways. ;-)
Sony is on my DO NOT CONSIDER list.
Back to the point, though, if they can do a $400 X86 NetBook, why not a $400 X86 Tablet?
On, only for the past 2-3 decades now. :-)
My only guess is that their marketing research indicates they wouldn't be able to sell enough to get the price that low? Windows 7 is a bit klunky on tablets anyway; only Windows 8 is released later this year, though (that purportedly is highly "tablet friendly"), I'd expect that we will be seeing some inexpensive Win tablets.
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sony is just about to bring out a tablet with windows 8 on it.
I wonder if Windows 8 for ARM is the same as Windows 8 for X86 or just a rebadged Windows CE like WP7.
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