Because the CLI is particularly well-suited to tablet PCs, you know.

What do you mean BESIDES the cool factor. That's like saying "besides avoiding death and sickness of millions of people what benefits did vaccines offer?"

Holy shit, you have a UID 600 and you used the word 'Lunix...' boy am I confused or what

In the cnet article about the 'net fridge, they mention that soon, the Internet Fridge might be converted to Linux anyway, by the manufacturers. At which point thousands of geeks will either a) Sue them for some odd GPL violation, b) buy millions for no reason, c) complain that it's not using the right distro, or d) bitch about the fact that they have to pay for it at all. :-P (notice the smiley at the end... dont hurt me!)

Will it be cooler or "wower" to be able to install and run WindowsXP on a PunchCard MainFrame, so you scan or bluetooth (Plug'n'Play you see?) a bunch of punch hole signals and it'll produce a nicely formatted Word document?

My thoughts exactly. Perhaps I should write an article "Don't fuck with it! A guide to leaving OS X on an iBook"?

Dave

This runs linux?

What's the point of saying you work at a "Top 5" Tablet PC maker when you obviously work at the 5th place Tablet PC maker? Surely you don't work for the 4th largest as you'd then only say you worked within the "Top 4"... So saying "Top 5" really doesn't leave us guessing as one might hope.

I remember back when Henry Ford submitted his work to slashdot and everybody complained "Where's the power steering?", "Who would buy this thing without air conditioning?", and "What's the point of doing this when horse and buggy is already saturating the market?"... some things never change...

If emacs is the solution I'm not sure I want to know what the problem is. I kid of course.

And I'll pour hot grits on Natalie Portman if you don't pipe down.