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Comment by MehdiEG | Hacker News Reader

No.

Isn't it ironic how just a few hours after somebody posted the wikipedia article on Betteridge's Law of Headlines (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4092880), two of such headlines make the top 2 of HN :)

More on topic, this looks like Palm Foleo re-invented (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Foleo). I always found the Foleo concept great so I wouldn't mind seeing another attempt. That said, the success of iPad and other tablets is going to make this device even more niche than the Foleo would have been. It'll be a tough sell.

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>That said, the success of iPad and other tablets is going to make this device even more niche than the Foleo would have been. It'll be a tough sell.

You are probably right - but not necessarily. This, after all, fills a different niche to a tablet. You can't put a tablet in your pocket and tablets are expensive because of having their own processor, memory, etc. This way you can use all the facilities of your highly portable phone on a laptop sized device that should, in theory, be a lot cheaper than a laptop or tablet.

Tablets are expensive because of their screen, touch screen, battery and mechanicals. Everything else is cheap in comparison.

http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/New-iPad-32-GB-4...

Devices like this still have a screen and battery and mechanicals. Instead of $20 of CPU and $10 of RAM they have a $10 CPU that includes RAM. That's pretty much the only savings available.

On the other hand, tablets sell in huge volumes; this is a niche market. So it's quite probable that tablets and/or notebooks without a CPU will be more expensive than ones with a CPU.

Foleo had great hardware design and wasn't trying to mimic a popular cheap consumer laptop.

To be honest, who cares about the hardware design here? This is very obviously a fake (or a cheap Chinese ripoff). Outside of China, nobody in their right mind would release something that's such an obviously MacBook Air clone.

What's interesting here isn't the actual hardware (which either doesn't exist or is cheap crap), it's the concept.

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