HP Files for PalmPad Trademark

PalmPad would've made an AWESOME name for a thin, large greyscale screen Pilot + Newton hybrid in the 90s....but yeah, you're right now. PalmPad apes Apple far too closely. I like "Slate" much more, to be honest.

Not too go OT too much, but I said years ago that Palm/eReader (when they were owned by Palm) could've made an early run at the e-book market with a larger (5" or 6") greyscale unit running OS4. Heck, Palm even made a barely-serious effort at selling those pre-loaded MMCs containing various books. Back in the day I read plenty of public domain ebooks from Memoware (more than I do now due to the lack of expandable store & wireless connectivity in those days) when in school and traveling in the Palm III/V/m500 era.
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Without using pad in the name they would have to build their market from scratch instead of mooching off of what Apple has built. On the other hand it fits nicely with the days when HP was building kick ass palmtop computers. Remember HP 200LX? I still have one around here somewhere.
"HP 1010LX palmpad computer" doesn't sound bad ;-)

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Bah. You should see the crap that's got Android Inside!
http://ipadtest.wordpress.com/2010/07/19/cheap-chinese-android-tablets-do-not-buy/

It's Linux all over again. People just want stuff to work.

Gary - it's past your bed time. go to bed old man.

and stop spamming the app store with those awful, redundant clock fart apps.

Mike, I say they are mediocre only because there are some really great iOS apps but compared to the shit available for android & webos my apps are top notch.

and no freebees for you & the lizard!

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Hey, quit patting yourself on the back and get busy and port these apps to webos. I'll tell you the real truth then. hehehehe
Have a nice day!
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Gary: can you make a Garnet PIM for Apple that syncs to Outlook running on the desktop?

>>>he talked a lot about bringing hp employees up to speed developing apps with contests & such, maybe they'll not even allow outside developers once they get their people trained

Nah, the Palm people would have a fit over that. HP can't think of every possible thing and no way in hell would a company like HP imagine "foolish" stuff like Twitter, et al. (Yes, I'm citing a website instead of an app but it is near sleep time and brain going into shutdown mode... sue me.)

I'm beginning to worry now.

Is A War Brewing At HP?
http://ipadtest.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/is-a-war-brewing-at-hp/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyx6Qk7wpC4

We'll see how good Dell is. Just had to email Michael Dell himself because of stonewalling by their damned India tech support.
http://mikecane.tumblr.com/post/829674190/so-it-turns-out-this-is-a-known-latent-defect-of

"Dude, you're getting a Dell!"

Yeah, well, right now I'm getting DELLED!

That appears to be a standard socket 370 HSF. I've never heard of a non-Dell machine falling apart like that. But I'm not surprised to hear about that problem with the Dells. Just order a cheapo-o used one off of E-Bay if Dell won't send any freebies.

Since S370 hasn't been widely used in, what, 7-8 years, I wouldn't expect any freebies from Dell. That's why you are better off assembling your own PC from industry-standard parts and not Dell's cheap, proprietary crap!

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I have personally had horrendous experience with Dell power supplies in particular, though there are lots of reports of bulging/leaking capacitors on motherboards too. I think I read a while back that Dell had switched to a standard ATX power supplies. The last one I had to service a few years ago was a Precott-era P4 and was still proprietary IIRC. I know they do a lot of cost-cutting w.r.t. cooling systems & fans and whatnot. And they still do proprietary stilliness for small things like mobo headers for front panel lights, USB ports etc and probably HSF retention clips too. Also, Dell Optiplex machines are really no better than the consumer-grade Dimensions or Inspirons!

Quite honestly, I still think that a Dell gives a solid new PC for the price. You couldn't even hope to build a comparable modern new machine with a legal Win 7 COA for the cost of their $299 and $399 specials. Also, Dell doesn't pre-load their machines with a crushing load of bloatware like HP/Compaq, Acer/Gateway or Sony, for example. And they still include a restore DVD in the box! However, whenever anyone I know buys a Dell I tell them to basically consider it a disposable appliance and to expect four-five years MAX out of it.
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Mike - how old is your Dell?

hmmn. complaining about a computer which has lasted 12+ years?

unbelievable.

Gekko, that's a hellofa reason to limit yourself to second rate toys. For long term compatibility of your apps Apple is the best way to go, everything else is mutating out of control.

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There is a reason why Apple products get lavish praise. It's not because everyone is a fanboy, it's because they make good products - products that are usually better than the competition. I've always maintained the same stance - if you can afford the cost, spend the extra money to buy the Apple product.

I know two people who bought laptops last year. One bought a $1000 HP with Windows 7 and loved it, and felt smart for saving money. The other bought a $1200 MacBook Pro and loved it. A year later, one thinks it's a piece of shit that doesn't work right (already), and the other is now a regular customer. Guess which is which?

The crap Dell is from 2003. Plastic parts just do not rot as this one did. It was defective from the start and Dell has an obligation to replace it for free. By right, there probably needs to be a damned recall if this has happened to thousands of people.

Dell just got dinged for $100M for stock fraud yesterday. Good. Show the corrupt punks for what they are.

The Nook app for Android is incredible bloatware -- over 17MBs installed! Rumor has it that they've pulled it from Android Market. Is that true?

but this discussion started on HP vs. Dell. but then the Apple fan boy had to bring Apple into the mix. check yourself.

You said HP was the most boring company. I said Dell. You posted a video of that Dell MID. I brought up that it wasn't a novel concept and brought Apple's products up as evidence. Then I drew a comparison to Silicon Valley darlings versus whitebox bullshitters who sell enterprise and are losing consumers at a rapid clip.

If you want to blanket Apple users as mindless drones, you're talking about tens of millions of users. Think about that.

Ok, 2003, so Mike's Dell is a socket 478. I've honestly seen more problems with motherboards & renention clips of that era than any other CPU (socket or slot, AMD or Intel) of any recent memory.

I attribute Mike's problem to the sub-standard Dell quality but I think a lot of the 478 problems were due to the general design of the interface (it was easy enough to fit an OEM HSF but they just didn't stand up to repeated removals & reinstallations) and probably exacerbated by the extremely high temperates of the fast clocked CPUs of that era.

Mike is your Dell a Dimension or an Optiplex? if it's an Optiplex I'd be greatly concerned about bad capacitors more so than anything else.
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