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Originally Posted by Nate the great
...It might be a failure as an ebook reader but that's okay because it's not an ebook reader. It's a netbook. Their lack of knowledge blinds them to the possibilities inherent in the design. ...
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It's a netbook, then, without a hard disk or a physical keyboard. That's sure attractive.
My Samsung netbook is smaller than the Entourage Edge and allows me to do my work easily with it.
I also carry a DX. It's light and flat and is a hell of an e-reader. Wikipedia is not that slow in its mobile version but I can read my DX anyway WHILE having the Netbook open to the Net for more info as long as I have WiFi. The advantage of the DX is Wikipedia is there on top of my book and accessible through slow Kindle-G3 access.
What I couldn't abide with the Edge is that I can't detach the ereader portion. (I think the Asus dualbook will allow detachment but it's not even near ready and won't do what the Edge does.)
You're right - it's dead as an E-reader. I think they'd sell well if they DID make a separate e-reader because its background looks lighter and they have the e-reader study tools all ready to go.
No, if I bought one of these, I'd also have to carry my netbook to be working as quickly as I can w/o worrying about space or using SD cards to save things to and take things from. I'd have all the apps I like always there and ready to go. I'd have a bulky bag then.
It's nifty being able to move a graph over and see it in color. But a DX stand-alone reader can be used along with a smaller netbook to see PDFs or books from Amazon and B&N on the netbook in color with no need to move the graph over.
I don't see how it can have a life, with an Apple iSlate-type thing coming out. But it IS only $390 or so? And that's where they have a chance. And the Apple will have only an LCD screen in this incarnation from all I read.
But who's the audience for the Edge? Right now the features sound more fun-like than actually useful in a real work environment.
It can use a USB keyboard from what I remember - but that's extra bulk and I guess it could use an external hard drive too. More of the same.
I don't think Gizmodo is far wrong here, though I find the device attractive to look at and probably fun to use if not on a deadline.
I truly do not get the advantage of the Edge, except that it'd be fun to scribble on one side to go along with a file, but then the scribbles can't be read by any handwriting recognition program. I'd have to type up what I had hand-written when ready to do other work instead of just importing the text of what I'd typed.
IF it were lighter, that would be a killer. Right now I just don't see it.