I have seen the future. The future is touch. I have to admit, Bill Gates saw this before me, but there are others that have not yet been converted.
She arrived in a pink plastic bag, from which she emerged looking like just another laptop. Plugged in, turned on, started up. Took forever to boot, during which time I took the casing off the bubbly's cork, but left the cork in. And then I saw a beautiful vista. Vista. Windows Vista. It actually is rather pretty, although I'm expecting it to screw up completely any time soon.
She's a Toshiba M700, the latest model of medium priced business tablet pc from them. (See/buy it) And the way she transitions from one mode to the other is quite elegant. The handwriting recognition is surprisingly good - that's a bonus. She, ok, it also has voice recognition and speech to text built in, but i've heard that before - we'll see how good it is. Not to mention fingerprint login, which is great, especially from tablet mode. Ooh, lots to play with. Now, configuration...
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*ooh's and aah's at shininess*
during these few years that i've been on earth, which isn't that long, i'm sure that i've seen the "re-invention" of paper and pen several times, but i have to admit this is quite impressive.
..and a pink plastic bag, eh? talk about ur epitome of manliness ;)
I am so jealous right now. I saw you caressing it in the GUI lecture *and I wished you would caress me like that.*
The closest I have to this interface is my wacom tablet which I dare not carry about for fear of having it's fragile white casing cracked, and it can't trump direct manipulation like your beast. *Curses* I wish Vista upon thee!
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