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Paul Allen has a new hardware venture called FlipStart that he claims will "replace your laptop". It's smaller than a laptop and larger than a BlackBerry. According to the Seattle P-I, the vision is to [a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/306254_flipstart06.html"]replace the laptop for most everyday use[/a], such as office applications, email, and web surfing.
'Really, FlipStart gives you everything that your laptop does [...] We're not promoting the idea that you would do CAD design on it, but for Office applications and most of what people do with their laptops, it's great.'
But at a $2000 price tag, this could be a little bit out of the range of many users. The product will launch on [a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 191);" href="http://flipstart.com/"]FlipStart.com[/a] in the not too distant future.
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So let me get this straight: They sell you a small brick for more than a notebook computer costs. You get a slow processor, a small screen, a small hard drive, worse battery life than the average PC or Mac laptop, a keyboard you can't type on, and you're supposed to believe that it's revolutionary? I'm not following. This looks like a total sinker to me, folks.
