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brapper · Jan 17, 2005, 04:50 PM

http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125...w=wn_tophead_3

Interesting idea. I wish I had one

historylme · Jan 17, 2005, 04:59 PM

awesome

Disgruntled Head of C-3PO · Jan 17, 2005, 05:05 PM

It must be really slow but it is still cool.

Mafia · Jan 17, 2005, 05:09 PM

lol @ his thumbnails. cool idea tho.

Disgruntled Head of C-3PO · Jan 17, 2005, 05:10 PM

Originally posted by Mafia:
lol @ his thumbnails. cool idea tho.

ew you're right.

mitchell_pgh · Jan 17, 2005, 05:17 PM

Originally posted by Mafia:
lol @ his thumbnails. cool idea tho.

That photo almost made me sick... I have a hangup regarding fingernails.

I wonder if that's where the iPod is going... 2-4 years down the road.

Garage81 · Jan 17, 2005, 05:23 PM

OSX on a portable is cool, but its not cool enough to justify those fingernails.

CMYKid · Jan 17, 2005, 05:34 PM

the article says it's because he can type better that way, but I cant really see how that'd be much faster than a stylus.

he'd be better off telling people he grew them to play guitar with, that gets a lot more chicks than "so I can type on my Pocket PC".

GoGoReggieXPowars · Jan 17, 2005, 05:45 PM

Neat idea to use VNC on that device. Makes me wonder why he bothered with a PowerBook instead of a desktop.

kenazo · Jan 17, 2005, 05:51 PM

It sounds great although I'm not sure about trying to view that on a 3.6" screen but I haven't had the opportunity to try it out yet.

I was hoping for pics of it running on the Fujitsu but no luck even on his blog

RonnieoftheRose · Jan 17, 2005, 05:54 PM

Originally posted by kenazo:
It sounds great although I'm not sure about trying to view that on a 3.6" screen but I haven't had the opportunity to try it out yet.

I was hoping for pics of it running on the Fujitsu but no luck even on his blog

Now imagine that was an Apple PDA. Scrolling click wheel on the left side for scrolling in the Finder and apps. Touchscreen for everything else. I would buy one.

CharlesS · Jan 17, 2005, 06:18 PM

Unless I'm not reading the article right, it sounds like he's using VNC to connect to a Mac running OS X. That's not the same thing as running OS X on a Pocket PC...

Superchicken · Jan 17, 2005, 06:21 PM

Just get up and down keys for scrolling, or a scroll wheel. But yah I've been shouting for SOMETHING like this for a long time... by the way could this be done with some sort of Palm based (read NON M$) device?

Brass · Jan 17, 2005, 07:12 PM

Originally posted by CharlesS:
Unless I'm not reading the article right, it sounds like he's using VNC to connect to a Mac running OS X. That's not the same thing as running OS X on a Pocket PC...

Yeah, my friend runs VNC on his Palm to connect to both OS X and Windows machines. Fairly basic stuff, so long as you've got a reasonable network connection.

Mediaman_12 · Jan 17, 2005, 08:08 PM

MMMM responsive!
I had a go using VNC to test sites in Safari on my PC at work, it was absolute torture. It took minutes to get the feedback from any action, typing a web address or scrolling a page for example.
an that was with a wired broadband connection at both ends (at home & work), that has at least one wifi connection.

Superchicken · Jan 17, 2005, 08:13 PM

So would VNC not work so well over AirPort?

brapper · Jan 17, 2005, 08:18 PM

I installed VNC on my powerbook at home after reading this article, then went down to the campus library to give it a shot. I was really impressed with how well it worked!
I was able to control every program with ease, the dock worked smoothly. The only complaints is the graphics, but I'm going to tweak with the settings to find the optimal quality of picture and speed.

rozwado1 · Jan 17, 2005, 10:37 PM

I would get nothing done if I had that. iPorn.

velodev · Jan 18, 2005, 01:38 AM

Originally posted by RonnieoftheRose:

Now imagine that was an Apple PDA. Scrolling click wheel on the left side for scrolling in the Finder and apps. Touchscreen for everything else. I would buy one.

I would be in line right behind you. I really like converged devices, Treo, as it lessens the clutter of two devices. But if Apple came out with a PDA, I would consider going back to two devices.

Luca Rescigno · Jan 18, 2005, 01:59 AM

How do you control it? Does it recognize stylus input the same as mouse input, or does he have to rely exclusively on the keyboard?

driven · Jan 18, 2005, 02:52 AM

(from the article)
"Of course, I can do e-mail and web browsing using the Pocket PC software, but because it's Microsoft, it's bad."

ROFL!

DeathToWindows · Jan 18, 2005, 07:39 PM

You could do the same with a Zaurus 6000... or even a 5500... might have to try on mine

Mac Guru · Jan 18, 2005, 09:34 PM

Originally posted by Mediaman_12:
MMMM responsive!
I had a go using VNC to test sites in Safari on my PC at work, it was absolute torture. It took minutes to get the feedback from any action, typing a web address or scrolling a page for example.
an that was with a wired broadband connection at both ends (at home & work), that has at least one wifi connection.

That's why you don't run at FULL 256 Color mode... I run in 128 and it's only slightly slower than being on my iBook and it's only minimal color quality loss.

Mac Guru

jnrjr79 · Jan 19, 2005, 12:13 AM

This makes me wonder if anybody here has gotten VNC to work on a Treo (or other Palm) to control Mac OS X. I tried and I hear it's possible but I haven't been able to get it going as of yet.

turtle777 · Jan 19, 2005, 06:08 PM

Originally posted by Mafia:
lol @ his thumbnails. cool idea tho.

Cool ?

Dunno...

-t

Mediaman_12 · Jan 19, 2005, 08:35 PM

Originally posted by Mac Guru:
That's why you don't run at FULL 256 Color mode... I run in 128 and it's only slightly slower than being on my iBook and it's only minimal color quality loss.

Mac Guru

I would have really liked to reduce the colours, down to even 16, but unlike the excellent ARD admin app, the PC VNC prog I was using didn't seam to have that option. I even went as far as creating a user on my mac with a really low screen res in an attempt to speed things up.

Brass · Jan 19, 2005, 08:53 PM

Originally posted by jnrjr79:
This makes me wonder if anybody here has gotten VNC to work on a Treo (or other Palm) to control Mac OS X. I tried and I hear it's possible but I haven't been able to get it going as of yet.

Read the thread more carefully, and all will be revealed.