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Originally Posted by brecklundin
Hey Mike;
I wanted to explain why I sounded so terse in the post before my last one...we had an experience here with a rep from a certain device re-brander who spun every failure and failed promise into some sort of superficial positive. So, for me it's sort of a take-no-prisoners POV and I'm sure my comments came across as, well really pissy, sorry about that because I think your Onyx 60 is a great move forward by adding the Wacom. The Wacom is IDEAL for a research device as well as for a student device. So, I don't want to come across as saying your Onyx 60 is BAD but rather it's not a panacea as the title of the thread would imply. Every device falls short for some people and I was just pointing out why I see it as a problem for science majors. Those are the students in need of a really solid large format device.
Getting something from Wolfram would be genius even if it was a partnership to help create a firmware that enables complex textbook layouts. I remember when I bought my first copy of MathCad as a student because not a chance I could have afforded Mathematica...I mean it was like $750 back then...hehehehe and Mathcad as about $120 student price. I used it for all of my course work from that point forward since the equation editors in the word processors at the time were , well, crappy....hahaha...
Will keep any eye on the next gen from Onyx to see what fun comes next...but I also see it being a bit difficult to work up something for a cpu as found in most ereaders...then again even those are pretty darned these days.
Hope it all works out in the end!!  |
Hi again,
Don't worry about any criticism, we encourage it. It's what drives us to make better eReaders. From the entire posting, I've come to realize one thing you're really not supporting, and please correct me if I'm wrong. It's that a 6 inch is not practical for students, no matter what.
Don't get me wrong, as being someone who was recently a college student a few years back, I completely understand. A 9.7 inch is pretty essential. However, what you may not understand is we are using the Boox 60 as a testing device to figure out any kinks in the software or interface. At the moment, the usability (software and features) of the device is much more important. As you may understand, if we work out the details here in the Boox 60, releasing the 9.7 inch will be very smooth (which we are releasing later on this year anyways).
What we had hoped to accomplish by entering the Boox in this review is to get approval feature wise and overall opinion by college students. It seems the Boox has passed with flying colors. Now all that's left is to perfect the 9.7 inch's durability issues and it can be released.
Once again, please keep the criticism coming, it only makes us work harder. I will also keep people up to date with any relations on the Mathematica and MathCad part (if I'm allowed).
Oh and WACOM for 9.7 inch device is already in a few eReaders.