BAT*21{usa}
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Post by BAT*21{usa} on Jun 2, 2007 6:04:50 GMT -5
imagine playing LAMRON's on this. Microsoft has a new product just out . a coffee table PC it is so cool . it has a 30" touch screen surface. one feature is it downloads pictures from digital cameras without plugging it in. a bit pricey.$5000 to $10,000 but new technology is . i recall VCRs were $500 and up when they first came out DVD players were too.now you can get them for $33. digital watches and calculators were expensive now they sometimes give them away as promos . so as it gets more common price should come down. www.thepittsburghchannel.com/video/13414360/index.html also check out the "plugged in" section at www.thepittsburghchannel.com for other cool stuff. the table is windows based {sorry mac} {sorry RED} |
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Death's Shadow
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Post by Death's Shadow on Jun 2, 2007 6:28:59 GMT -5
way cool.. would love to have one.. will have to wait till they come out with the poor boy model though lol..
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Post by Nutman on Jun 2, 2007 12:28:34 GMT -5
That is the coolest. Wishing to be rich.
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RedRock
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Post by RedRock on Jun 2, 2007 22:32:23 GMT -5
imagine playing LAMRON's on this. Microsoft has a new product just out . a coffee table PC it is so cool . it has a 30" touch screen surface. one feature is it downloads pictures from digital cameras without plugging it in. a bit pricey.$5000 to $10,000 but new technology is . i recall VCRs were $500 and up when they first came out DVD players were too.now you can get them for $33. digital watches and calculators were expensive now they sometimes give them away as promos . so as it gets more common price should come down. www.thepittsburghchannel.com/video/13414360/index.html also check out the "plugged in" section at www.thepittsburghchannel.com for other cool stuff. the table is windows based {sorry mac} {sorry RED} Don't know much about that, but for over a year now, I've been able to download song files and pictures without wires from my digital camera to my mac, using bluetooth (which comes preinstalled standard on the mac). It's seamless and easy to use. Now, mind you, my camera is lousy, it's part of my cellphone, but the new cellphone I'm about to get has a 2 Megapixel true digital camera, and it will function just as easily. (Yawn). Bluetooth is cheap technology and it will be very easy to add it to cameras if they don't already have it. That's way too much to pay for any windows based anything. {Sorry to be years ahead of you guys, again, but hey, that's just the Mac way, you know.} |
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Death's Shadow
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Post by Death's Shadow on Jun 3, 2007 6:27:24 GMT -5
Mac has a table top, touch screen, bluetoothed, multimedia coffee table? Wow didn't ever hear of it. BTW you can wifi pics and files to windows also with bluetooth. ( just a lil unhinging this morning not much hehe) have to agree on the its way to much to pay but Ill add, for any operating system.
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RedRock
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Post by RedRock on Jun 3, 2007 15:02:52 GMT -5
...BTW you can wifi pics and files to windows also with bluetooth.... Yep, buy one of those plugin thingys that stick out of your pc, load the software, and hope it all works with this week's service pack of Windows. I like my stuff ready to go out of the box, all the bugs already worked out, and the drivers and software built into the OS. But nice try. |
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Post by Death's Shadow on Jun 3, 2007 16:48:15 GMT -5
to each their own. I like my bare bones system that I ad what I want to the os and hardware configuration. No comment on the mac version of the table? lol have a good one friend.  |
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Post by RedRock on Jun 3, 2007 23:31:29 GMT -5
....No comment on the mac version of the table?.... Just that the demo vid shows touchscreen functions and features of "the surface" that look just like those already in place on the Apple iPhone which is due to start shipping this month, not two years from now. Oh, and those iPhone touchscreen items are heavily patented, so microsoft better watch out. |
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Post by Death's Shadow on Jun 4, 2007 6:18:06 GMT -5
saw a touch screen monitor at best buy a few months ago not sure of brand but was running windows on it.. no need for mouse was all touch and scroll. way cool but price tag was about $8000. was a 42in screen.
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Post by brandon on Jun 4, 2007 10:42:37 GMT -5
Bare Bones omg you must know some seriously anerexic people i prefer myine with a litlle meat on thats all the soft ware i need
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Post by Death's Shadow on Jun 4, 2007 11:38:00 GMT -5
Lmao Brandon.
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Post by RedRock on Jun 4, 2007 12:59:20 GMT -5
Touchscreen is not new at all, but what is new are the patented ideas and subroutines for getting the touchscreen to react in an advanced GUI style--the look and feel issue--and what I saw of the Surface was very similar to what the iPhone does (and no one did before).
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Post by Death's Shadow on Jun 4, 2007 13:11:43 GMT -5
very possible Red I will have to google iphone and learn some things from the darkside as I have never seen the product or know all its functions.
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Post by RedRock on Jun 4, 2007 15:15:22 GMT -5
The ads Apple has on its website for it are not nearly as nice as the demo Steve Jobs did in San Fran. at MacWorld this year (Jan or Feb)--he gave the keynote express. That's what you should look at, and fastforward to the iPhone part (they cover AppleTV and some other stuff, but the iPhone was the cool thing) or just click on the link on the first page to go there directly: events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/j47d52oo/event/ |
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Post by Lamron on Jun 4, 2007 19:25:47 GMT -5
Touch screens have been around for a long time, but they haven't been developed much because nobody wants them. Sure its cool for a few limited applications, but you wouldn't want to use it at home for everything. Can you imagine how tired you'd be using one for a few hours? The only way we can sit for hours and hours in front of a computer is because your body can enter a near-coma state with the only movement being your eyes and tiny mouse movements. Anything that required the large muscle groups to be continously used would exhaust you quickly.
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