I know I have seen it get made fun of a bit here.
My company is switching from Verizon to T-Mobile. I was thinking of
selling my Verizon Galaxy Tab and buying a T-Mobile Galaxy Tab, but
our new rep is telling me Monday the Streak 7 comes out, with dual
core and 4G.
Is there an issue with this device other than the obvious "It's not an
Apple"?

On Feb 1, 4:33=A0pm, Jerry <ifree...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I know I have seen it get made fun of a bit here.
> My company is switching from Verizon to T-Mobile. I was thinking of
> selling my Verizon Galaxy Tab and buying a T-Mobile Galaxy Tab, but
> our new rep is telling me Monday the Streak 7 comes out, with dual
> core and 4G.
> Is there an issue with this device other than the obvious "It's not an
> Apple"?

low res for the size and weak battery.

In article 
<79750f61-2f52-48cf-bd7d-72e47c07f600@o7g2000prn.googlegroups.com>,
 ed <news@atwistedweb.com> wrote:

> On Feb 1, 4:33�pm, Jerry <ifree...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I know I have seen it get made fun of a bit here.
> > My company is switching from Verizon to T-Mobile. I was thinking of
> > selling my Verizon Galaxy Tab and buying a T-Mobile Galaxy Tab, but
> > our new rep is telling me Monday the Streak 7 comes out, with dual
> > core and 4G.
> > Is there an issue with this device other than the obvious "It's not an
> > Apple"?
> 
> low res for the size and weak battery.

Yet it is one of the devices in Edwin's "quadruple kill" for the iPad.

-- 
"The iPhone doesn't have a speaker phone" -- "I checked very carefully" -- 
"I checked Apple's web pages" -- Edwin on the iPhone 
"It is Mac OS X, not BSD.' -- 'From Mac OS to BSD Unix." -- "It's BSD Unix with Apple's APIs and GUI on top of it' -- 'nothing but BSD Unix' (Edwin on Mac OS X) 
'[The IBM PC] could boot multiple OS, such as DOS, C/PM, GEM, etc.' -- 
'I claimed nothing about GEM other than it was available software for the 
IBM PC. (Edwin on GEM) 
'Solaris is just a marketing rename of Sun OS.' -- 'Sun OS is not included 
on the timeline of Solaris because it's a different OS.' (Edwin on Sun) 

On Feb 1, 5:03=A0pm, Alan Baker <alangba...@telus.net> wrote:
> In article
> <79750f61-2f52-48cf-bd7d-72e47c07f...@o7g2000prn.googlegroups.com>,
>
> =A0ed <n...@atwistedweb.com> wrote:
> > On Feb 1, 4:33=A0pm, Jerry <ifree...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I know I have seen it get made fun of a bit here.
> > > My company is switching from Verizon to T-Mobile. I was thinking of
> > > selling my Verizon Galaxy Tab and buying a T-Mobile Galaxy Tab, but
> > > our new rep is telling me Monday the Streak 7 comes out, with dual
> > > core and 4G.
> > > Is there an issue with this device other than the obvious "It's not a=
n
> > > Apple"?
>
> > low res for the size and weak battery.
>
> Yet it is one of the devices in Edwin's "quadruple kill" for the iPad.

ok

On Feb 1, 7:33=A0pm, Jerry <ifree...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I know I have seen it get made fun of a bit here.
> My company is switching from Verizon to T-Mobile. I was thinking of
> selling my Verizon Galaxy Tab and buying a T-Mobile Galaxy Tab, but
> our new rep is telling me Monday the Streak 7 comes out, with dual
> core and 4G.
> Is there an issue with this device other than the obvious "It's not an
> Apple"?

Tablets are a fad. Just get a laptop. Does everything a tablet does
plus about 2 billion things a tablet doesn't.

On Feb 1, 8:03=A0pm, Alan Baker <alangba...@telus.net> wrote:
> In article
> <79750f61-2f52-48cf-bd7d-72e47c07f...@o7g2000prn.googlegroups.com>,
>
> =A0ed <n...@atwistedweb.com> wrote:
> > On Feb 1, 4:33=A0pm, Jerry <ifree...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I know I have seen it get made fun of a bit here.
> > > My company is switching from Verizon to T-Mobile. I was thinking of
> > > selling my Verizon Galaxy Tab and buying a T-Mobile Galaxy Tab, but
> > > our new rep is telling me Monday the Streak 7 comes out, with dual
> > > core and 4G.
> > > Is there an issue with this device other than the obvious "It's not a=
n
> > > Apple"?
>
> > low res for the size and weak battery.
>
> Yet it is one of the devices in Edwin's "quadruple kill" for the iPad.
>
> --
> "The iPhone doesn't have a speaker phone" -- "I checked very carefully" -=
-
> "I checked Apple's web pages" -- Edwin on the iPhone
> "It is Mac OS X, not BSD.' -- 'From Mac OS to BSD Unix." -- "It's BSD Uni=
x with Apple's APIs and GUI on top of it' -- 'nothing but BSD Unix' (Edwin =
on Mac OS X)
> '[The IBM PC] could boot multiple OS, such as DOS, C/PM, GEM, etc.' --
> 'I claimed nothing about GEM other than it was available software for the
> IBM PC. (Edwin on GEM)
> 'Solaris is just a marketing rename of Sun OS.' -- 'Sun OS is not include=
d
> on the timeline of Solaris because it's a different OS.' (Edwin on Sun)

You think about Edwin often.

In article 
<bb68a065-3970-4cda-90a9-04b481a30709@d11g2000yql.googlegroups.com>,
 MuahMan <muahman@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Feb 1, 8:03�pm, Alan Baker <alangba...@telus.net> wrote:
> > In article
> > <79750f61-2f52-48cf-bd7d-72e47c07f...@o7g2000prn.googlegroups.com>,
> >
> > �ed <n...@atwistedweb.com> wrote:
> > > On Feb 1, 4:33�pm, Jerry <ifree...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I know I have seen it get made fun of a bit here.
> > > > My company is switching from Verizon to T-Mobile. I was thinking of
> > > > selling my Verizon Galaxy Tab and buying a T-Mobile Galaxy Tab, but
> > > > our new rep is telling me Monday the Streak 7 comes out, with dual
> > > > core and 4G.
> > > > Is there an issue with this device other than the obvious "It's not an
> > > > Apple"?
> >
> > > low res for the size and weak battery.
> >
> > Yet it is one of the devices in Edwin's "quadruple kill" for the iPad.
> >
>
> You think about Edwin often.

I find him very amusing.

:-)

-- 
"The iPhone doesn't have a speaker phone" -- "I checked very carefully" -- 
"I checked Apple's web pages" -- Edwin on the iPhone 
"It is Mac OS X, not BSD.' -- 'From Mac OS to BSD Unix." -- "It's BSD Unix with Apple's APIs and GUI on top of it' -- 'nothing but BSD Unix' (Edwin on Mac OS X) 
'[The IBM PC] could boot multiple OS, such as DOS, C/PM, GEM, etc.' -- 
'I claimed nothing about GEM other than it was available software for the 
IBM PC. (Edwin on GEM) 
'Solaris is just a marketing rename of Sun OS.' -- 'Sun OS is not included 
on the timeline of Solaris because it's a different OS.' (Edwin on Sun) 

In article 
<abd962d4-aa29-4fe5-a399-7c17a2c4a2a2@k9g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>,
 MuahMan <muahman@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Feb 1, 7:33�pm, Jerry <ifree...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I know I have seen it get made fun of a bit here.
> > My company is switching from Verizon to T-Mobile. I was thinking of
> > selling my Verizon Galaxy Tab and buying a T-Mobile Galaxy Tab, but
> > our new rep is telling me Monday the Streak 7 comes out, with dual
> > core and 4G.
> > Is there an issue with this device other than the obvious "It's not an
> > Apple"?
> 
> Tablets are a fad. Just get a laptop. Does everything a tablet does
> plus about 2 billion things a tablet doesn't.

Care to make a little wager on that?

-- 
"The iPhone doesn't have a speaker phone" -- "I checked very carefully" -- 
"I checked Apple's web pages" -- Edwin on the iPhone 
"It is Mac OS X, not BSD.' -- 'From Mac OS to BSD Unix." -- "It's BSD Unix with Apple's APIs and GUI on top of it' -- 'nothing but BSD Unix' (Edwin on Mac OS X) 
'[The IBM PC] could boot multiple OS, such as DOS, C/PM, GEM, etc.' -- 
'I claimed nothing about GEM other than it was available software for the 
IBM PC. (Edwin on GEM) 
'Solaris is just a marketing rename of Sun OS.' -- 'Sun OS is not included 
on the timeline of Solaris because it's a different OS.' (Edwin on Sun) 

On 2/1/11 7:28 PM, MuahMan wrote:
> On Feb 1, 8:03 pm, Alan Baker<alangba...@telus.net>  wrote:
>>
>> Yet it is one of the devices in Edwin's "quadruple kill" for the iPad.
>>
>> --
>> "The iPhone doesn't have a speaker phone" -- "I checked very carefully" --
>> "I checked Apple's web pages" -- Edwin on the iPhone
>> "It is Mac OS X, not BSD.' -- 'From Mac OS to BSD Unix." -- "It's BSD Unix with Apple's APIs and GUI on top of it' -- 'nothing but BSD Unix' (Edwin on Mac OS X)
>> '[The IBM PC] could boot multiple OS, such as DOS, C/PM, GEM, etc.' --
>> 'I claimed nothing about GEM other than it was available software for the
>> IBM PC. (Edwin on GEM)
>> 'Solaris is just a marketing rename of Sun OS.' -- 'Sun OS is not included
>> on the timeline of Solaris because it's a different OS.' (Edwin on Sun)
>
> You think about Edwin often.

Jealous? You thought of Edwin to bring him up.

On 2/1/11 7:27 PM, MuahMan wrote:
>
> Tablets are a fad. Just get a laptop. Does everything a tablet does
> plus about 2 billion things a tablet doesn't.

And I took your advice by getting a white MacBook. Just think, I can run 
OS X< Windoze and Linux on it. How is that for choice, Pratt?

On Feb 1, 8:29=A0pm, Alan Baker <alangba...@telus.net> wrote:
> In article
> <abd962d4-aa29-4fe5-a399-7c17a2c4a...@k9g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>,
>
> =A0MuahMan <muah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Feb 1, 7:33=A0pm, Jerry <ifree...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I know I have seen it get made fun of a bit here.
> > > My company is switching from Verizon to T-Mobile. I was thinking of
> > > selling my Verizon Galaxy Tab and buying a T-Mobile Galaxy Tab, but
> > > our new rep is telling me Monday the Streak 7 comes out, with dual
> > > core and 4G.
> > > Is there an issue with this device other than the obvious "It's not a=
n
> > > Apple"?
>
> > Tablets are a fad. Just get a laptop. Does everything a tablet does
> > plus about 2 billion things a tablet doesn't.
>
> Care to make a little wager on that?
>
> --
> "The iPhone doesn't have a speaker phone" -- "I checked very carefully" -=
-
> "I checked Apple's web pages" -- Edwin on the iPhone
> "It is Mac OS X, not BSD.' -- 'From Mac OS to BSD Unix." -- "It's BSD Uni=
x with Apple's APIs and GUI on top of it' -- 'nothing but BSD Unix' (Edwin =
on Mac OS X)
> '[The IBM PC] could boot multiple OS, such as DOS, C/PM, GEM, etc.' --
> 'I claimed nothing about GEM other than it was available software for the
> IBM PC. (Edwin on GEM)
> 'Solaris is just a marketing rename of Sun OS.' -- 'Sun OS is not include=
d
> on the timeline of Solaris because it's a different OS.' (Edwin on Sun)

A wager that the Newton will be a flop?

On Feb 1, 9:13=A0pm, Chance Furlong <T-B...@megakatcity.com> wrote:
> On 2/1/11 7:27 PM, MuahMan wrote:
>
>
>
> > Tablets are a fad. Just get a laptop. Does everything a tablet does
> > plus about 2 billion things a tablet doesn't.
>
> And I took your advice by getting a white MacBook. Just think, I can run
> OS X< Windoze and Linux on it. How is that for choice, Pratt?

Most people do run Windows on their Macs.

In article 
<85f2b511-ffd9-47d8-b7fb-aea47878740b@x18g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>,
 MuahMan <muahman@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Feb 1, 8:29�pm, Alan Baker <alangba...@telus.net> wrote:
> > In article
> > <abd962d4-aa29-4fe5-a399-7c17a2c4a...@k9g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>,
> >
> > �MuahMan <muah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Feb 1, 7:33�pm, Jerry <ifree...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I know I have seen it get made fun of a bit here.
> > > > My company is switching from Verizon to T-Mobile. I was thinking of
> > > > selling my Verizon Galaxy Tab and buying a T-Mobile Galaxy Tab, but
> > > > our new rep is telling me Monday the Streak 7 comes out, with dual
> > > > core and 4G.
> > > > Is there an issue with this device other than the obvious "It's not an
> > > > Apple"?
> >
> > > Tablets are a fad. Just get a laptop. Does everything a tablet does
> > > plus about 2 billion things a tablet doesn't.
> >
> > Care to make a little wager on that?
> >
> 
> A wager that the Newton will be a flop?

Newton was the flop that led to the Palm Pilot...

Tablets are going to be big precisely because there are still many more 
people who find even the most logically laid out traditional GUI OS to 
be too confusing for them than there are people who are happy with them.

People who would never have bought a computer�not even netbook�are 
buying tablets, Brian.

Lots of them.

-- 
"The iPhone doesn't have a speaker phone" -- "I checked very carefully" -- 
"I checked Apple's web pages" -- Edwin on the iPhone 
"It is Mac OS X, not BSD.' -- 'From Mac OS to BSD Unix." -- "It's BSD Unix with Apple's APIs and GUI on top of it' -- 'nothing but BSD Unix' (Edwin on Mac OS X) 
'[The IBM PC] could boot multiple OS, such as DOS, C/PM, GEM, etc.' -- 
'I claimed nothing about GEM other than it was available software for the 
IBM PC. (Edwin on GEM) 
'Solaris is just a marketing rename of Sun OS.' -- 'Sun OS is not included 
on the timeline of Solaris because it's a different OS.' (Edwin on Sun) 

In article 
<ba6f5981-d202-46bc-9439-74efe6f5ec5b@s2g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>,
 MuahMan <muahman@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Feb 1, 9:13�pm, Chance Furlong <T-B...@megakatcity.com> wrote:
> > On 2/1/11 7:27 PM, MuahMan wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Tablets are a fad. Just get a laptop. Does everything a tablet does
> > > plus about 2 billion things a tablet doesn't.
> >
> > And I took your advice by getting a white MacBook. Just think, I can run
> > OS X< Windoze and Linux on it. How is that for choice, Pratt?
> 
> Most people do run Windows on their Macs.

Got any proof of that? Any evidence? Anything?

-- 
"The iPhone doesn't have a speaker phone" -- "I checked very carefully" -- 
"I checked Apple's web pages" -- Edwin on the iPhone 
"It is Mac OS X, not BSD.' -- 'From Mac OS to BSD Unix." -- "It's BSD Unix with Apple's APIs and GUI on top of it' -- 'nothing but BSD Unix' (Edwin on Mac OS X) 
'[The IBM PC] could boot multiple OS, such as DOS, C/PM, GEM, etc.' -- 
'I claimed nothing about GEM other than it was available software for the 
IBM PC. (Edwin on GEM) 
'Solaris is just a marketing rename of Sun OS.' -- 'Sun OS is not included 
on the timeline of Solaris because it's a different OS.' (Edwin on Sun) 

"Alan Baker"  wrote in message 
news:alangbaker-399FC2.19440001022011@news.shawcable.net...

In article
<85f2b511-ffd9-47d8-b7fb-aea47878740b@x18g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>,
MuahMan <muahman@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Feb 1, 8:29 pm, Alan Baker <alangba...@telus.net> wrote:
> > In article
> > <abd962d4-aa29-4fe5-a399-7c17a2c4a...@k9g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>,
> >
> >  MuahMan <muah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Feb 1, 7:33 pm, Jerry <ifree...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I know I have seen it get made fun of a bit here.
> > > > My company is switching from Verizon to T-Mobile. I was thinking of
> > > > selling my Verizon Galaxy Tab and buying a T-Mobile Galaxy Tab, but
> > > > our new rep is telling me Monday the Streak 7 comes out, with dual
> > > > core and 4G.
> > > > Is there an issue with this device other than the obvious "It's not 
> > > > an
> > > > Apple"?
> >
> > > Tablets are a fad. Just get a laptop. Does everything a tablet does
> > > plus about 2 billion things a tablet doesn't.
> >
> > Care to make a little wager on that?
> >
>
> A wager that the Newton will be a flop?

>Newton was the flop that led to the Palm Pilot...

>Tablets are going to be big precisely because there are still many more
>people who find even the most logically laid out traditional GUI OS to
>be too confusing for them than there are people who are happy with them.

>People who would never have bought a computer‹not even netbook‹are
>buying tablets, Brian.

>Lots of them.

yaaaaaaaaawwwwnnnnnnnnnn,..............................God, how does this 
Balloonhead bore stand himself?

End thread.

-- 
"The iPhone doesn't have a speaker phone" -- "I checked very carefully" -- 
"I checked Apple's web pages" -- Edwin on the iPhone
"It is Mac OS X, not BSD.' -- 'From Mac OS to BSD Unix." -- "It's BSD Unix 
with Apple's APIs and GUI on top of it' -- 'nothing but BSD Unix' (Edwin on 
Mac OS X)
'[The IBM PC] could boot multiple OS, such as DOS, C/PM, GEM, etc.' -- 
'I claimed nothing about GEM other than it was available software for the
IBM PC. (Edwin on GEM)
'Solaris is just a marketing rename of Sun OS.' -- 'Sun OS is not included
on the timeline of Solaris because it's a different OS.' (Edwin on Sun) 

On 2/1/11 9:44 PM, Alan Baker wrote:
> In article
> <ba6f5981-d202-46bc-9439-74efe6f5ec5b@s2g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>,
>   MuahMan<muahman@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> On Feb 1, 9:13 pm, Chance Furlong<T-B...@megakatcity.com>  wrote:
>>> On 2/1/11 7:27 PM, MuahMan wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Tablets are a fad. Just get a laptop. Does everything a tablet does
>>>> plus about 2 billion things a tablet doesn't.
>>>
>>> And I took your advice by getting a white MacBook. Just think, I can run
>>> OS X<  Windoze and Linux on it. How is that for choice, Pratt?
>>
>> Most people do run Windows on their Macs.
>
> Got any proof of that? Any evidence? Anything?

Pratt will evade as usual.

"Chance Furlong"  wrote in message 
news:K9KdnZAyOfwpINXQnZ2dnUVZ_gadnZ2d@giganews.com...

On 2/1/11 7:27 PM, MuahMan wrote:
>
> Tablets are a fad. Just get a laptop. Does everything a tablet does
> plus about 2 billion things a tablet doesn't.

>And I took your advice by getting a white MacBook. Just think, I can run OS 
>X< Windoze and Linux on it. How is that for choice, Pratt?

twat

HOOT!! 

"Chance Furlong"  wrote in message 
news:hMKdnf76u5sHeNXQnZ2dnUVZ_gOdnZ2d@giganews.com...

On 2/1/11 9:44 PM, Alan Baker wrote:
> In article
> <ba6f5981-d202-46bc-9439-74efe6f5ec5b@s2g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>,
>   MuahMan<muahman@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> On Feb 1, 9:13 pm, Chance Furlong<T-B...@megakatcity.com>  wrote:
>>> On 2/1/11 7:27 PM, MuahMan wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Tablets are a fad. Just get a laptop. Does everything a tablet does
>>>> plus about 2 billion things a tablet doesn't.
>>>
>>> And I took your advice by getting a white MacBook. Just think, I can run
>>> OS X<  Windoze and Linux on it. How is that for choice, Pratt?
>>
>> Most people do run Windows on their Macs.
>
> Got any proof of that? Any evidence? Anything?

>Pratt will evade as usual.

twat

HOOT!!

On 02/02/2011 00:33, Jerry wrote:

> I know I have seen it get made fun of a bit here.
> My company is switching from Verizon to T-Mobile. I was thinking of
> selling my Verizon Galaxy Tab and buying a T-Mobile Galaxy Tab, but
> our new rep is telling me Monday the Streak 7 comes out, with dual
> core and 4G.
> Is there an issue with this device other than the obvious "It's not an
> Apple"?

The Streak has an inferior screen and battery life is rather bad.  I 
would stick with the Galaxy Tab for now.

On 02/02/2011 03:44, Alan Baker wrote:

> Tablets are going to be big precisely because there are still many more
> people who find even the most logically laid out traditional GUI OS to
> be too confusing for them than there are people who are happy with them.

I don't understand how someone could find any traditional GUI to be 
confusing.  NextStep/OpenStep/Windowmaker/Afterstep etc. take a bit of 
getting used to at first (although it is well worth it) but going in the 
other direction and having a one-button interface seems far too 
simplistic to me.

The reason I bought a tablet is because it is very convenient to have a 
small device with a nice size screen that boots up quickly, doesn't need 
to be charged very often and can be carried around easily.  For anything 
else, I use my desktop or laptop computers.

In article <iibr2g$evo$1@news.eternal-september.org>,
 White Spirit <wspirit@homechoice.co.uk> wrote:

> On 02/02/2011 03:44, Alan Baker wrote:
> 
> > Tablets are going to be big precisely because there are still many more
> > people who find even the most logically laid out traditional GUI OS to
> > be too confusing for them than there are people who are happy with them.
> 
> I don't understand how someone could find any traditional GUI to be 
> confusing.  NextStep/OpenStep/Windowmaker/Afterstep etc. take a bit of 
> getting used to at first (although it is well worth it) but going in the 
> other direction and having a one-button interface seems far too 
> simplistic to me.

Of course. But you're inside it, aren't you? How long have you used 
traditional GUIs? 10 years, 20? For me it's been 26 years.

But I run into people who've just started using computers who feel 
completely at sea.

> 
> The reason I bought a tablet is because it is very convenient to have a 
> small device with a nice size screen that boots up quickly, doesn't need 
> to be charged very often and can be carried around easily.  For anything 
> else, I use my desktop or laptop computers.

But there will soon be lots of people who use tablets as their only 
computer.

-- 
"The iPhone doesn't have a speaker phone" -- "I checked very carefully" -- 
"I checked Apple's web pages" -- Edwin on the iPhone 
"It is Mac OS X, not BSD.' -- 'From Mac OS to BSD Unix." -- "It's BSD Unix with Apple's APIs and GUI on top of it' -- 'nothing but BSD Unix' (Edwin on Mac OS X) 
'[The IBM PC] could boot multiple OS, such as DOS, C/PM, GEM, etc.' -- 
'I claimed nothing about GEM other than it was available software for the 
IBM PC. (Edwin on GEM) 
'Solaris is just a marketing rename of Sun OS.' -- 'Sun OS is not included 
on the timeline of Solaris because it's a different OS.' (Edwin on Sun) 

In article 
<ba6f5981-d202-46bc-9439-74efe6f5ec5b@s2g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>,
 MuahMan <muahman@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Feb 1, 9:13�pm, Chance Furlong <T-B...@megakatcity.com> wrote:
> > On 2/1/11 7:27 PM, MuahMan wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Tablets are a fad. Just get a laptop. Does everything a tablet does
> > > plus about 2 billion things a tablet doesn't.
> >
> > And I took your advice by getting a white MacBook. Just think, I can run
> > OS X< Windoze and Linux on it. How is that for choice, Pratt?
> 
> Most people do run Windows on their Macs.

Evidence? 

I certainly don't. 

OK, I have XP on my iMac at work (using Fusion), but haven't opened it 
in months.