I’ve been waiting years for the eBook I need. I’ve seen and tried the Rocket, the Sony PRS, the iRex illiad, the starEbook and the Kindle. and they all fail miserably for me. Each one has something good(ish); worthy of note is the illiad has the much needed 1024×768 display; the Kindle has great connectivity. The downside is they all cost huge and offer low bang for the buck.
Tantilisingly, what I need is far simpler than what these guys try to produce. I don’t need something that works for 40 hours without charge, I dont even need something that weighs less than a feather. In fact I think my requirement is similar to many pro’s who want eBook capabilities for work purposes.
Actually what I need is more or less a standard cheap notebook and i’ll sacrifice a real keyboard for a tablet style display. I rarely need more than 3 hours running away from mains charging, and I can accept some weight. I can cope with a shared memory graphics adapter but I do want colour, a 1.4GHz core duo and 1GB RAM. Probably running some lightweight Linux preferably on an SSD disk to save power. At a minimum I want it to render PDF and preferably also DOC and PPT. I’d love it to be able to playback video and audio as well as view images. I definitely want an RSS client and a web browser.
Tesco can seel me a Fujitsu laptop for £299 with 1.8GHz CPU, 1GB RAM, 120GB Disk, DVD Rewriter, 128MB Graphics, 802.11g, Modem, and Vista! so why can’t I have that in my eBook format? Please!
