Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 28th Jul 2006 20:44 UTC
Cnet did an interesting comparison: Samsung's recently released UMPC, vs. the... Apple Newton. "Fans will tell you that the Apple Newton was years ahead of its time. Ten years on we're going to put that claim to the test. We're pitting a vintage Apple Newton against the brand-new Samsung Q1 ultra-mobile PC in a head-to-head battle." What's more suprising is the winner, however.
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2006-04-28
Perhapse if you would have read the article and its comments in full you'd know that the necessary software for browsing, viewing images/documents, ... exists.. not to mention additional support for bluetooth and Wifi.
I never used AV softw on my ex-Win boxes (all linux now), if you pay very close attention in your surfing habbits and such you can easilly avoid infection with virusses (this cannot be said about spyware... spyware is such a pain in the ass it's unavoidable on a windows machine). But for the average user malicious software is an issue and an AV is the minimum you can do.
Another thing:
One does not simply look at the features of a product but most importantly at its usability. That is a serious misunderstanding amongst IT engineers and so far Apple is one of the few companies that design their products for usability. Hence the succes of iPod... I did not get a manual with it, simply because it isn't needed, it is idiot-proof. Almost all other mp3-players I've ever seen came with a manual. As for me, I've worked with a newton several times and it was a hell of alot more usable and smarter than that **** PocketPC pda for my gps.