I have Tablet PC
Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 8:05 pm
So, I bought an ViewSonic G Tablet. I got it from the US for about $150 once the UK VAT man had his way with me. The Viewsonic G Tab got average reviews upon release, mostly down to the very poor OS implementation. Which being a geek I can fix.
So, no concern of mine. I flashed on an Android 3 image, overclocked the CPU and hay-presto a device that gives the Apple iPad 2 a run for it's money, just cheaper. A lot cheaper.
My opinion? All i can say is this: Computers are the greatest thing since fire. Seriously, not since the dog, way back when humans lived in caves and ate roast brontosaurus every night and the little K9 hangers-on sniffed round our animal skins, hoping for food, pretending to give a shit by barking at people it didn't recognise, has such a thing augmented the failings in human beings so well. A computer remembers what we cant', it calculates faster than we can be arsed, and communicates further than shouting distance from your mum with ease. The computer, even the cheapest one, is ace. It makes humans perfect. In design capabilities at least. It fills the gaps in humans. Humans, in case you forgot, do not evolve in the traditional sense, we change our environment to fit it, and the computer is the current pinnacle of that human skill.
So, what the fuck is the tablet PC? The so called future of computers?
Agreed, computers will continue to become a greater commodity. They will become as water. Very close to, if not very actually free. Discarded and used like rags, available and accessible to everyone, with little or no value. A future I hold dear/
So where does a $600 tablet computer sit within this cycle? This evolution? With a quarter of the processing power, an eighth of the ram, an awful interface, no real integration, and little or no point to owning one? Other than of cause, being a fashion accessory for the handful of fuck-witted westernised deities sat on the steps of the western mount Olympia. The Tablet PC clearly, being to dogs what Paris Hilton Chihuahua is to security: Completely fucking pointless.
This hacked and chopped second rate Tablet i have built is useless. Come back to me when I can talk to it as I would a human, the storage being endless, and it can second guess I want to see Gantz episode 2 without being told. And then downloads it. Free. And winks like a mate when it hands it over.
There you go buddy. Cheers mate. Now that's the evolution of computers.
So, no concern of mine. I flashed on an Android 3 image, overclocked the CPU and hay-presto a device that gives the Apple iPad 2 a run for it's money, just cheaper. A lot cheaper.
My opinion? All i can say is this: Computers are the greatest thing since fire. Seriously, not since the dog, way back when humans lived in caves and ate roast brontosaurus every night and the little K9 hangers-on sniffed round our animal skins, hoping for food, pretending to give a shit by barking at people it didn't recognise, has such a thing augmented the failings in human beings so well. A computer remembers what we cant', it calculates faster than we can be arsed, and communicates further than shouting distance from your mum with ease. The computer, even the cheapest one, is ace. It makes humans perfect. In design capabilities at least. It fills the gaps in humans. Humans, in case you forgot, do not evolve in the traditional sense, we change our environment to fit it, and the computer is the current pinnacle of that human skill.
So, what the fuck is the tablet PC? The so called future of computers?
Agreed, computers will continue to become a greater commodity. They will become as water. Very close to, if not very actually free. Discarded and used like rags, available and accessible to everyone, with little or no value. A future I hold dear/
So where does a $600 tablet computer sit within this cycle? This evolution? With a quarter of the processing power, an eighth of the ram, an awful interface, no real integration, and little or no point to owning one? Other than of cause, being a fashion accessory for the handful of fuck-witted westernised deities sat on the steps of the western mount Olympia. The Tablet PC clearly, being to dogs what Paris Hilton Chihuahua is to security: Completely fucking pointless.
This hacked and chopped second rate Tablet i have built is useless. Come back to me when I can talk to it as I would a human, the storage being endless, and it can second guess I want to see Gantz episode 2 without being told. And then downloads it. Free. And winks like a mate when it hands it over.
There you go buddy. Cheers mate. Now that's the evolution of computers.