Is the Raspberry Pi real at that price?

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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FOAD, JW retard.

IF you are "at the hospital", you have no business wasting your (pathetic) time in Usenet. And particularly not making pathetic 'one-liner' cracks.

So, you are either a liar or a putz or both.

So, since "my wish" is for a cleaner gene pool, I have no feelings about your circumstance.

If your genes were up to snuff, you would be finding something more productive to occupy your time with... so...

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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Why am I visualizing you taking a swan dive from a third story window onto a wrought-iron fence with 12" spikes?

Retarded flashbacks of your past life, f*****ad.

I can't help you with your retarded afflictions, dipshit.

I think your last point nails it. Perhaps an x86 tablet is less than useful, without a real keyboard[*]. That's why the x86 "tablets" are "convertibles" with the display folding back over the keyboard.

[*] Spilled a cup of coffee in this keyboard last night and a few of the keys are less than real. :-( At least the laptop powered back on this morning.

I expect that 90+% of the source code between the two is identical.

Microsoft has explicitly stated that they're making no provision for running x86 code via emulation (or whatever) on ARM -- all x86 Windows programs are going to have to be re-compiled, at the least, to run on it.