I've been using the Q1 in public the last couple of days, and it's been getting some very envious looks. The conductor on my train on Friday was particularly impressed. (This was on a GNER service with onboard wifi – a brilliant idea hamstrung by the grand British tradition of cocking up the railways. I managed to send one email, and my girlfriend downloaded an attachment only after prowling the corridors for 10 minutes in search of decent reception. Rubbish.)
But the most interesting reactions were from non-techy people. A designer technophobe friend was emphatuated. Touchscreen was, he said, totally unintimidating, and he was able to quickly draw an excellent picture in the terminally rubbish MS Paint in 2 minutes flat. He wants one. My mum loved the handwriting
recognition, and my dad was impressed with One Note.
Hopefully the UMPC can break the massmarket in the same
way as the Nintendo DS - by drawing in a whole new
audience.
I cannot believe you said “drawing on a whole new audience”.
Are you still loving it? I received my keyboard and organiser and it is even more wow now.
Comment by Cllr. Gavin Ayling — July 29, 2006 @ 4:33 pm
Yes, got the keyboard/case and still loving he machine. Just realised that I haven’t touched my desktop for a week. I do almost all my work in One Note and am generally loving office 2007. And web surfing is great – much more social now that I’m not tied to a desk.
Only 2 gripes. One, hand writing recognition is light years better than I expected but hasn’t adjusted to my quirks – hopefully pattern learning will improve in vista. Two, I’m totally adicted to checking minute changes in share prices every 3 seconds. sometimes I think I should hide the Origami on top of a cupboard.
Comment by unknownkernel — July 30, 2006 @ 12:05 pm