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Originally Posted by jbenny
The specs in the article are a bit light, but it seems to me that this is just another incarnation of a previously failed MS device. I forget what it's called, but it was an LCD tablet that wirelessly connected to your home PC, running WinXP.
In both cases, these devices can only show you what is being served up by your PC. You can't take the device elsewhere and read a book on it (or do anything else). Just as with the previous product, this is a stupid idea and will fail. A few people will find it useful to them, but the vast majority will not, especially considering the cost of the hardware.
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No, that's not how "Sideshow" works. The PC will exchange content with the device, but the information will be stored independently on the device. The PC will only be required to transfer data, rather like "synching" a PDA.